Michelle Tolini Finamore is a Fashion and Design Historian and Curator. Her most recent exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour opened in September of 2022 at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. As the Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston she curated the groundbreaking 2019 exhibition Gender Bending Fashion in addition to #techstyle, Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen, Think Pink, and Jewelry by Artists. Books include Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film, Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni and Jewelry by Artists: In the Studio, 1940-2000 and articles for European Drama and Performance Studies, Modern Magazine, Fashion Theory, Architecture Boston, and Gastronomica. She has lectured widely and taught courses on fashion/design/film history at Northeastern University, Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Michelle holds a Ph.D. from Bard College and an M.A. from the Fashion Institute of Technology.