Chloe Chapin is a costume designer, maker, and fashion scholar. She holds a PhD in American studies (Harvard University), MAs in history (Harvard) and fashion and textile studies (Fashion Institute of Technology), an MFA in design (Yale School of Drama), and a BFA in performance production (Cornish College of the Arts). As a costume designer, Chloe’s credits include: Broadway (associate/assistant): Equus, HAIR!, American Idiot, Passing Strange; New York: The Civilians, BAM, Clubbed Thumb; Regional: Hartford Stage, Two River, Yale Rep. She has published articles on fashion in Fashion Theory and Dress, held research fellowships at Monticello, Mount Vernon, the Huntington Library, Winterthur Library, American Antiquarian Society, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and has taught at FIT, Parsons, Reed College, and Harvard’s Pre-College & Extension School Programs. She is currently working on her first book, about the origins of modern men’s suits, and the way they harnessed white masculinity to democracy and modernity. Chloe coaches artists in academia through thresholdadvising.com, and explores pedagogy through her position as the Assistant Director for Course Development at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. Her most recent making practice / obsession is William Morris-print needlepoint cushions. She keeps meaning to set up the loom she bought a year ago and then stuffed in a closet with all of her old quilting fabrics.