Gilded Age Fashion and Jewelry at 92NY
Elizabeth Block, Marion Fasel, Kasia Walicka Maimone, and Jonathan Wahl

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Join Jonathan Wahl, Director Eemritus of the Jewelry Center, for an in-depth discussion on the fashion and jewelry of the Gilded Age.

Guests are Elizabeth Block, author of Gilded Age Fashion; author and jewelry historian, Marion Fasel; and Kasia Walicka Maimone, costume designer of the Gilded Age on HBO. The Gilded Age spanned the 1870s-90s and marked the ascendancy of the United States to a global power, with rapid growth in industrialization immigration, and wealth creation. How did this expansion affect what people wore and what was fashionable? Are there parallels to today’s era? Join us to find out.