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Fashion and Design Historian and Curator
Michelle Tolini Finamore is a Fashion & Design Historian, Author and Curator and an Exhibition & Programming Consultant at Historic New England. Upcoming exhibitions include Shoe Stories: Past, Present Future at Historic New England and Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York City. In 2022/23 her exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour was shown at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the New Orleans Museum of 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 Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour, Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film, Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni and Jewelry by Artists: In the Studio, 1940-200 and articles for both the popular and scholarly press. 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.
