B Jeffrey Madoff

Mar 10, 2025 | publicseminar.org | Hannah McIntyre |Susan Yelavich |Manou Messman |B Jeffrey Madoff

Les Invisibles (The Invisible Ones) (1810) | William Brocas / Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain CollectionIn my first semester at Parsons School of Design, I sat in the library, dazedly looking around at other students’ outfits. I noticed someone wearing a denim beret with a long-sleeved white shirt that had images of bones, forming a skeleton laid on their back. They wore a long black skirt made of pretty lace— juxtaposed with aggressive rips and pins with vulgar phrases.