Faith Cooper’s projects bring together digital humanities, archival research, visual storytelling, and public scholarship to foreground Asian and Asian diasporic fashion histories. Through digital platforms, exhibitions, learning guides, interviews, and public-facing initiatives, her work explores how fashion carries memory, identity, migration, and cultural heritage across personal, communal, and global contexts.
Asian Fashion Archive
Founded by Faith Cooper in 2020, the Asian Fashion Archive is a digital humanities project dedicated to documenting Asian and Asian diasporic fashion histories. Through archival images and public-facing scholarship, the platform highlights underrepresented narratives and expands access to fashion histories often overlooked in mainstream discourse.
Social Media & Digital Engagement in Fashion Studies
Faith Cooper has developed digital and social media strategies that connect fashion scholarship with broader public audiences. Through her work with the International Journal of Fashion Studies, China Africa Fashion Power, and the Costume Society of America, she has created accessible content and community-building initiatives that bring academic research on fashion and visual culture into wider circulation.
"Fashion & Memory" Column for Fashion & Market
“Fashion & Memory” is Faith Cooper’s interview-based column for Fashion & Market, exploring how clothing, family photographs, and personal experiences shape cultural memory. Through conversations with fashion creatives and practitioners, the series examines how dress carries stories of heritage and belonging across generations.
"Asian American Fashion & Heritage" Learning Guide for The Fashion and Race Database
Created in collaboration with the Fashion and Race Database, this learning guide explores Asian American fashion and heritage through questions of identity, representation, history, and cultural memory. Developed for AANHPI Month, the guide offers accessible resources for engaging with Asian American fashion histories in educational and public-facing contexts.
Exhibition: Eleanor Lambert: Empress of Seventh Avenue
In 2020, Faith Cooper co-curated Eleanor Lambert: Empress of Seventh Avenue at The Museum at FIT. The exhibition examined Lambert’s role in shaping American fashion publicity and positioning New York as an international fashion capital. The project reflected Cooper’s broader interest in fashion history and the cultural narratives that structure the fashion industry.
Global Fashion Capitals Fair
Organized in conjunction with The Museum at FIT’s Global Fashion Capitals exhibition, the Global Fashion Capitals Fair brought together international fashion communities, cultural organizations, and public audiences. The program invited visitors to engage with global fashion cultures through dialogue, display, and community participation, extending the exhibition’s themes beyond the gallery space.