Talk: Fashion writer Robin Givhan in conversation with SCAD School of Fashion dean Dirk Standen

The Walter and Linda Evans Center for African American Studies welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Robin Givhan to the SCAD Museum of Art for a conversation on fashion as a zeitgeist. Former senior critic at large for The Washington Post and author of Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh, Givhan lends her insights into the life and legacy of Virgil Abloh while tapping her own philosophies regarding luxury fashion, race, and optimism with SCAD School of Fashion dean Dirk Standen.

About the speakers
Robin Givhan was senior critic at large for The Washington Post and is author of Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh and The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History as well as contributor to several books including Runway Madness, No Sweat: Fashion; No Sweat: Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers; and Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers. Her journalistic writings have featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, ESSENCE, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, and The New Yorker, among other publications. In 2006, Givhan won a Pulitzer Prize in criticism for her fashion coverage.

Dirk Standen is dean of the SCAD School of Fashion and a fashion journalist published by media outlets including Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, Coveteur, Financial Times, and more. Standen heads the university’s undergraduate and graduate programs for fashion, fashion marketing and management, fibers, accessory design, and jewelry at both the Atlanta and Savannah locations, where he previously taught 400-level courses with a focus on the future of fashion and retail.

This event is free and open to the public.