ABOUT ME
Patrick Michael Hughes
Patrick Michael Hughes is a fashion and decorative arts historian. He writes about fashion culture past and present making connections to New York, London and Copenhagen's fashion weeks with an eye toward men's fashion. He joined IRK Magazine as a fashion men's editor during winter of 2017.
He is often cited as a historical source for numerous pieces appearing in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, LVMH, Conde Nast, Highsnobiety and others. His fashion career includes years as a fashion reporter/producer of branded content for the New York local news in the hyper digital sector. Patrick's love of travel and terrain enabled him to becoming an experienced cross-country equestrian intensively riding in a number of locations in South America Scandinavia,The United Kingdom and Germany. However, he is not currently riding, but rather speaking internationally to designers, product development teams, marketing teams and ascending designers in the US, Europe and China.
Following his BA in the History of Art from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York he later completed graduate studios in exhibition design in New York. it was with the nudge and a conversation in regard to a design assignment interviewing Richard Martin curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art he was encouraged to consider shifting his focus to the decorative arts with a concentration in fashion history and curation.
Patrick completed graduate studies 17th and 18th century French Royal interiors and decoration and 18th century French fashion culture at Musée Les Arts Decoratifs-Musée de Louvre in Paris. Upon his return to New York along with other classes and independent studies in American fashion he earned his MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from the Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Design Museum program in New York. His final specialist focus was in 19th century English fashion and interiors with distinction in 20th century American fashion history and design.
Currently, he is an Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons School of Design leading fashion history lecture-studios within the School of Art and Design History and Theory,
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‘Midsummer Style’
Midsummer Style: The celebration of fables, myth and mortal romance is not just for the pagan midsummer solstice at the end of June the northern hemisphere moves from darkness into light a new season marked…
London Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2020
A tired conversation at London Fashion Week Men’s one may have to endure each season is, ‘Its not what it used to be so much smaller’… ‘There aren’t any big labels’ and the age old…
Two Advanced Sartorial Statements
New York Fashion Week Men’s comes to a close and London Fashion Week Men’s starts on the heals of Italy, a fashion narrative one can take from New York to London is the advancement of…
CHENPENG – CONTEMPLATIVE & COLORFUL SNOWY LAND
‘Hima Laya’ was the title of the exceedingly enterprising thirty-seven-look men’s and women’s collection created by CHENPENG for fall-winter 2019. ‘Hima Laya’ in Sanskrit means ‘snowy land the home of snow’. Throughout the collection bright…
Lukhanyo Mdingi’s South African Intelligence
Lukhanyo Mdingi is a designer who established his brand in 2015 in South Africa. He is passionate about local South African design and creating ethically based fashion, which is sourced and produced in South Africa….
Spring Surfaces Emerge
Jacket Descendant of Thieves , Silk Jaguar Pants Charlie by Matthew Zink Trainers Gola
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Jacket and Trousers by Brian Swift, Leather studded collar by Roberto Calasanz
MORE THAN FASHION THREADS
Beyond the fashion trend was the consideration for this season’s men’s editorial highlighting fall 2018. The two-person images and limited color palate are a fashion nod to the portraiture and representations seen in Barkley Hendricks’…
Two In the Land of America
New York Fashion Week held in early September is a marathon of women’s wear showings and numerous mixed gender to genderless collections. Inevitably punctuated is the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks of 2001 forever in…
