Tonya Blazio-Licorish

Tonya Blazio-Licorish is an author, visual culture historian, archives editor, design educator, and researcher. A passion for visual storytelling has been rooted in her experience in the creative industries for more than fifteen years. Taking an interdisciplinary approach her research aims to sustain brand equity by recovering and reconnecting archives to the social currents.

Her first authored title with WWD "Black In Fashion, 100 Years of Style, Influence and Culture" released in September 2024 documents Women's Wear Daily's (WWD) lens on the contributions Black creatives have made to the evolution of fashion.

Tonya has lectured both locally and internationally, contributing to fashion education in the role of mentor and professor. She currently teaches courses at FITNYC, Parsons School of Design and Montclair University in fashion, costume, sociocultural history, leadership, global and local issues, and fashion criticism and thinking. She is the curator of the Fairchild Fashion Museum which debut in September 2022.

Tonya continues to evolve the field of fashion history by contributing authored articles and curated content to WWD, Sourcing Journal and Rivet. She resides in Brooklyn, New York, but her roots are in New Orleans.