Join the Shrewsbury Public Library with Tonya Blazio-Licorish, who will discuss her new book,  Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence & Culture

Tonya Blazio-Licorish is an author, visual culture historian, archives editor and educator. Her passion for visual storytelling has a connective strand to more than fifteen years in the creative industries. Through an interdisciplinary lens she explores fashion, culture and society to recover and reconnect archives with curated storytelling that sustains brand equity.

Her first authored title “Black In Fashion, 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture” written with WWD and Tara Donaldson, released in September 2024 captures Women’s Wear Daily’s (WWD) lens on the contributions of Black creatives as a fluid conversation to the evolution of fashion.

Tonya has lectured locally and internationally. She contributes to fashion education teaching courses in Fashion, Costume and Cultural History, Global and Local Leadership and Fashion Merchandising with FITNYC, Parsons School of Design and Montclair University.

She is the curator of the Fairchild Fashion Museum which debuted in September 2022.

Her contributions to the evolving field of fashion includes authored and curated content for WWD, Sourcing Journal and Rivet.

Tonya resides in Brooklyn, New York with her family, but her roots are in New Orleans, Louisiana.