List of Parsons School of Design people

This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Parsons School of Design in New York City.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Notable alumni

See also: Category:Parsons School of Design alumni

Business

• Tyler Haney, founder of Outdoor Voices ^[1]

Design and Technology (MFA)

• Evan Roth, artist and hacker
• Zachary Lieberman, new media artist, computer programmer
• Sara Little Turnbull, industrial designer

Fashion (BFA)

• Gilbert Adrian (1903–1959), costume designer
• Princess Angela of Liechtenstein (born 1958), previously known as Angela Gisela Brown, Panamanian-American fashion designer and the wife of Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein.
• Jeff Banks (born 1943), designer of clothing, jewelry, and home furnishings
• Bill Blass (1922–2002), fashion designer
• Donald Brooks
• Doo-Ri Chung
• Feroze
• Lazaro Hernandez
• Marc Jacobs
• Elois Jenssen
• Kevin Johnn
• Donna Karan
• Derek Lam
• Jillian Lewis
• Sandy Liang
• Princess Marie-Caroline of Liechtenstein
• Parke Lutter
• Jenna Lyons
• Claire McCardell
• Raul Melgoza
• Isaac Mizrahi (born 1961), fashion designer and television presenter
• Thakoon Panichgul
• Sarah Phillips
• Patrick Robinson
• Narciso Rodriguez
• Lela Rose
• Behnaz Sarafpour
• Dmitry Sholokhov
• Steinunn Sigurdardottir
• Willi Smith
• Peter Som
• Anna Sui
• Alfred Sung
• Kay Unger, fashion designer
• Carmen Marc Valvo
• Alexander Wang
• John Warden
• Jason Wu

Fashion (AAS)

• Prabal Gurung
• Reed Krakoff
• Miles Redd
• Bradford Shellhammer

Film (BFA)

• Sarah Austin
• Harry Hurwitz
• Adam Jasinski
• Charis Michelsen
• Joel Schumacher
• Rob Zombie, born as Robert Cummings

Fine Art (BFA or MFA)

• Kevin Appel
• Rosemary Cove
• Jane Frank
• Charles Goldman
• Adolph Gottlieb
• Julie Harvey
• Edward Hopper
• D Hwang
• Steffani Jemison
• Jasper Johns
• Shirley Kaneda
• Sol Kjok
• Dimitar Lukanov
• Rob Pruitt
• Andrew Cornell Robinson
• Norman Rockwell
• Anrika Rupp
• Gavin Spielman
• Emily Sundblad
• Rodel Tapaya
• Julie Umerle
• Nick van Woert
• Betsy Wolfston
• Ai Weiwei
• Janise Yntema

Visual Communication and Graphic Design (BFA or BBA)

• Brian Biggs
• Hector Luis Bustamante
• Kelly Chen
• Bea Feitler
• Ryan McGinley
• Jenny Mannerheim
• Paul Rand
• Mimi So

Illustration (BFA)

• Louisa Bertman
• Ilse Bischoff
• Peter DeSeve
• Leo and Diane Dillon
• Julia Gran
• Bessie Pease Gutmann
• Hidekaz Himaruya
• Bob Rafei
• Joel Resnicoff (1948–1986), artist and fashion illustrator
• Brian Wood
• Dan Yaccarino

Music (MS)

• Melora Creager
• Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
• Jimmy Urine
• Sean Yseult

Photography (BFA)

• Ransom Ashley
• Pamella Bordes
• Philippe Cramer
• Amina Cruz
• Bella Hadid
• Hidekaz Himaruya
• Sun Lee
• Danielle Mckinney (MFA)
• Steven Meisel (born 1954), fashion photographer
• Herbert Muschamp
• Stewart Shining

Uncategorized

• Amy Astley
• Hlynur Atlason
• Henry Rutgers Beekman
• Siri Berg - faculty
• Dean and Dan Caten
• Richard Chai
• C.K. Chatterton - Studied in The New York School of Art, 1900–1904
• Rose Connor
• Jasper Conran
• Kalyani Priyadarshan
• Dorian Corey
• Sue de Beer
• Deepti Divakar - Indian model, actress, writer and Femina Miss India World 1981
• Stephen Dwoskin
• Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
• Tom Ford
• Charles Gagnon
• William Gropper
• Clyde Kenneth Harris
• Auriea Harvey
• David Horvath
• Chet Kalm, former administrator; established the Foundation Department
• Sun-Min Kim
• Sean Kinney
• Chang-Jin Lee
• Ji Lee
• Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark
• Dorothy Marckwald
• Brian McCarty
• Tom Morrow
• Kimberly Ovitz (born 1983), fashion designer
• Rick Owens
• Ingibjörg Stefanía Pálmadóttir
• Thakoon Panichgul
• Heron Preston
• Rob Pruitt
• Raghavendra Rathore
• Miguel Robles-Durán
• Julia Restoin Roitfeld (born 1980), French creative director and designer
• Stefan Sagmeister
• Arleen Schloss
• Proenza Schouler
• Carl Sprinchorn
• Yuval Tal
• Paula Mary Turnbull
• Alexandra von Fürstenberg (née Alexandra Natasha Miller; born 1972), Hong Kong-born American furniture designer

Notable faculty

See also: Category: Parsons School of Design faculty

• Ruth Abrams, painter and faculty in the 1960s.
• Janet Fish, painter ^[2]
• Tim Gunn, fashion design faculty from 1982 to 2007; served as department chair from 2000 to 2007.
• Herschel Levit, photography faculty from 1977 to 1986. ^[3]
• Mary Ann Scherr, founding Chair of the Product Design Department from 1979 to 1989. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. Tolentino, Jia (March 11, 2019). "Outdoor Voices Blurs the Lines Between Working Out and Everything Else". The New Yorker . ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved December 29, 2024.
2. Kort, Carol; Sonneborn, Liz (May 14, 2014). A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts. Infobase Publishing. ISBN   978-1-4381-0791-2.
3. "Herschel Levit". ADC Global Network. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
4. Garcia, Brooke (March 12, 2021). "Inside the Collection: Mary Ann Scherr and #5WomenArtists". Metal Museum. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
5. "Mary Ann Scherr's Legacy in Metal Exhibition". School of Constructed Environments (SCE), Parsons School of Design. January 29, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2021.