Women Dressing Women: A Lineage of Female Fashion Design

Mellissa Huber is a fashion historian specializing in twentieth-century dress. She is an Associate Curator in The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she has co-curated the exhibitions Women Dressing Women (2023) and In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection (2019), and contributed to some of the museum’s most visited shows including Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and The Catholic Imagination (2018); Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology (2016); China: Through the Looking Glass (2015); and Charles James: Beyond Fashion (2014). Mellissa holds an MA in visual culture from New York University and a BFA with a minor in Art History from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She lectures regularly and has taught for the Costume Studies graduate program at NYU.