About
Avery Lynn Wheless is a fashion studies scholar, queer historian, amateur stylist, and vintage enthusiast whose research revolves primarily around queer nightlife histories and sartorial expression among sapphic-identifying individuals. her other interests include wardrobe and costuming for film and television. Avery’s work revolves around the unique ability that clothing has to speak to diverse aspects of individual lives. As such, her work weaves together the complex interconnection of the inner emotional world, identity politics, historical frameworks, and much more.
Avery holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and History from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Arts degree in Fashion Studies from Parsons School of Design. During her time in school, she spent four years assisting several professors on a variety of research projects, and completed a Senior History Thesis entitled “Challenging the Gender Binary in New York and Berlin: Queer Performance Dress and its Aesthetic Implications on the Roaring 20s” and a Masters Thesis entitled “Dressing for Her: Performing Queerness in Sapphic Nightlife.”
During her time in New York City during the completion of her Masters program, Avery worked as a Styling Assistant and Assistant To The Designer Jasmine Chong, whose eponymous label champions slow fashion practices and creates beautifully vivid material worlds.
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