In American Fashion: Natalie Nudell & Ian Bradley-Perrin in Conversation

Join Ian Bradley-Perrin, curator of Love & Fury: New York’s Fight Against AIDS, in a conversation with author Natalie Nudell, held in celebration of the paperback release of her book In American Fashion, Ruth Finley’s Fashion Calendar (Bloomsbury Press). In this important and scholarly discussion, they will explore how HIV/AIDS impacted the fashion and creative industries in the 1980s and ’90s, and how Ruth Finley’s Fashion Calendar remains an essential record of the fashion community’s response to the epidemic.

In American Fashion, Ruth Finley’s Fashion Calendar  will be available for purchase in the Shop. Nudell will be signing her book following the event. 

Natalie Nudell (@natalien__) is a fashion and textile historian with a research focus on the 20th- century American fashion industry centered on the Fashion Calendar, labor, and the digital humanities. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, where she is also the Director of the Fashion Calendar Research Database. Nudell produced and wrote the feature documentary Calendar Girl (2020) about Ruth Finley and New York Fashion Week. Nudell is the recipient of the 2026 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fashion & Culture.

Ian Bradley-Perrin is a historian of HIV/AIDS in the United States whose work bridges scholarship, activism, and curation. He contributed to Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster at the Memorial Art Gallery and developed his dissertation, “A Consumer’s Epidemic: People with AIDS and the Politics of Consumption,” on the first five years of the AIDS response by People with AIDS. He has worked at AIDS advocacy organizations in Canada and the United States and is currently a Senior Scientist supporting HIV treatment and prevention clinical research. Bradley-Perrin earned his PhD in Sociomedical Sciences and History from Columbia University and has lived with HIV for over 15 years. His scholarship and lived experience inform his approach to curating and interpreting the history of AIDS.

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