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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P.L.N. Unflinching Confidence in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN: P. L.N. is a collection based on uncompromising visual expression and a site specific experience. In a long dark runway lit with spotlights. With a soundscape created by early nineties, Cologne based musicians Carla…
DSQUARED2’s Virile Maximalism Fall 2023
There is a conspicuous glamour colliding with a heated affirmation of identity and fetish at DSQUARED2′s Fall 2023 collection. The fashion voyeurism is on fire for this luxury house founded in 1995. This season’s runway…
de Saint Sernin at Ann Demeulemeester
The appointment of Ludovic de Saint Sernin as the new Creative Director of Ann Demeulemeester fills a vacancy which has been empty since 2020. Demeulemeester retired and stopped designing almost ten years ago, however she…
Ruslan Baginskiy: Men’s Hats form Ukraine
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Bottega Veneta is Advanced Luxury
Bottega Veneta‘s Creative Director Matthieu Blazy is furthering fashion beyond simply the post COVID return. His Pre-Spring 2023 collection is a look into a future where there is the continuing promise of luxury and new…
Emeric Tchatchoua Creative Director of 3.Paradis
What is a humanist fashion brand? How do you share a message without words? Can a seasonal campaign spread an agenda of unity, liberation, and hope? Paris-born Emeric Tchatchoua Emeric Tchatchoua is the Creative Director…
Raf Simons Celebrating London’s Tailored Techno
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de Saint Sernin’s Five Years of Muse
Ludovic de Saint Sernin’s ‘Mirage’ for Spring /Summer 2023 marks the fifth year anniversary for the unapologetic, sexy and identity affirming brand. Fashion has been having a nostalgic moment musing nineteen seventies playful sexual mythology….
GOOMHEO Continues Antiquities Legacy
GOOMHEO’s Spring 2023 campaign Dystopia Beach by German photographer Heji Shin is a modern brutalist homage inspired by classical form an marginalized youthful masculinity from the late nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties in Central Europe….
