Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is an award-winning fashion historian, curator, and journalist. She is the author of Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Worn on This Day: The Clothes That Made History, The Way We Wed: A Global History of Wedding Fashion, Red, White, and Blue on the Runway: The 1968 White House Fashion Show and the Politics of American Style,Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the 20th Century, and the forthcoming Bigwigs: Hair, Politics, and Power in the 18th-Century Atlantic World. She is general editor of This is Fashion, part of the Thames & Hudson This is… series.
Kimberly has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and essay collections, as well as exhibition catalogues for LACMA, the National Gallery of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Musée Galliera, the Château de Versailles, The Huntington, Chatsworth House, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre. She writes about fashion, art, and culture for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Politico, Slate, Smithsonian, Ornament, History Today, and The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on NPR, the Biography Channel, and Reelz, along with several podcasts. She was a 2020-21 NEH Public Scholar, a 2021-22 USC Libraries Fellow, and a 2026 MacDowell Fellow.
Kimberly holds a BA in English and 18th-Century Studies from Stanford, an MA in History of Dress from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and a PhD in Art History and French from the University of Aberdeen.