Alexis Romano is a writer, lecturer and curator within the fashion industry, design history and visual culture. Her work explores 20th-century fashion, photography, gender, oral history, clothing archives, and everyday, subjective aspects of dress to broaden fashion authorship (and access) and challenge design hierarchies.
Before completing her PhD at London's Courtauld Institute of Art, Alexis studied art and design history in New York and Paris. She teaches Fashion Studies at Parsons, the New School for Design and was the 2024-5 Teaching Fellow at Wesleyan University, and the 2020-21 Curatorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. In 2013 Alexis co-founded the London-based Fashion Research Network, to promote fashion research and connect its global community of trans-disciplinary researchers.
Previously US Editor of WeAr Global Magazine, Alexis lectures widely and her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and arts and culture publications such as Vestoj, Photography & Culture, Fashion Theory, Domus, Aesthetica, and Disegno.