MA in Luxury Business

Mary Davis is a historian and educator specializing in fashion and its relationship to art and commerce. In a wide-ranging career, she has held positions as a professor and dean as well as posts with the President’s Commission on Organized Crime and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. She is currently a member of the Capstone Faculty at the Jackson School of Global Affairs and a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale University.

Carmela Spinelli is a fashion historian and curator whose work focuses on luxury education, museum practice, and engagement with the fashion industry. She brings more than two decades of experience spanning both academia and industry, with a focus on fashion and design history, museum programming, and higher education leadership and recruitment.

Elizabeth Chase is a decorative arts and design historian, educator, and advisor with over twenty years of experience working across museums, universities, auction houses, and the private market in the U.S. and Europe.

Eugene Rabkin is the founder and editor of StyleZeitgeist, an online fashion and culture media platform and podcast, and a recognized thought leader in the field of luxury. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Business of Fashion, Air Mail, and T Magazine China, among others. He is the author of Stone Island: Storia and the forthcoming Torn: Fashion and Postmodernism. He has taught courses in critical writing and contemporary fashion at Parsons, the New School for Design. 

Fabio Ciquera spent the past twenty-five years in London, where he worked in communication departments of major luxury brands like Gian Franco Ferre’, the Chanel Group, and Zilli. Fabio’s focus shifted to publishing in the mid noughties. Fabio serves as Communication Director at Upstreet Magazine, launched Plastique Magazine, and worked on a pioneering online project, Imagine Fashion, the first video luxury magazine. In 2010 Fabio joined Istituto Marangoni, bringing his expertise to the Luxury Brand Management and Strategies courses as well as being the course director for the successful fashion business program, both in London and Shanghai.

Krista Hammond is a business professional with 25 years of experience in the luxury industry, spanning Sydney, Tokyo, and New York City. She has led international marketing teams for integrated marketing campaigns, global events, product launches, omnichannel marketing, consumer engagement, global communications, and strategic business development. In addition to teaching Luxury Market Economics and Omnichannel Marketing at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Hammond teaches Entrepreneurship in Luxury Arts at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business.