Emily Ripley is Lecturer and Director of the Fashion and Textiles program at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ. Her museum and archive work includes the Calvin Klein archive, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and a position as a Research Assistant in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since 2013, she has served as Curator and Collections Manager of the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Fashion and Textiles Collection. She has over seven years’ experience working in the fashion industry for DKNY/Donna Karan/Hanes. 

Ms. Ripley has assisted with multiple New York City museum exhibitions, and she has curated and staged many exhibitions featuring the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Fashion and Textiles Collection. Employing the archive and with her students as active participants, she has guided numerous exhibits on the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ campus. As an educator, Ms. Ripley has integrated material culture practices into the Fashion and Textiles curriculum, aiming to bring her students the most inclusive, innovative, and multi-disciplinary methods in fashion, material culture studies, the arts, and design. 

Ms. Ripley received her MA in Fashion and Textiles Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice from the Fashion  Institute of Technology. Her awards and grants include a PSC-CUNY Research Award, an Andrew W. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Program Grant, a Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities Grant, and a Young Audiences Artist in Residence Grant.