Education:
2006-2008 New York University, M.A. in Visual Arts: Costume Studies
2004-2006: SUNY Empire State College, B.A. in American Social History
2000-2003: SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology: A.A.S. Patternmaking Technology
Work Experience:
2009-Present Cameo Cleaners, Assistant Tailor
2000-Present: Freelance Dressmaker & Costumer, working for such clients as Tricorne Inc., Eric Winterling, Jared M, Alison Lewis, The Museum of American Finance, Raynham Hall Museum, etc.
2007-2009: Museum of the City of New York, Costume Department, Art Handler
2006-2008: Tamiment Library; Assistant, Oral History Collection
2004-2005: D.L. Custom Clothing; Manager/Assistant Patternmaker
2002: Originals-By-Kay; Assistant/Intern
2002: Merchant House Museum; Costume Collections Assistant/Intern
2001-2002: Suffolk County Historical Society; Assistant to the Curator
I have been an enthusiastic student of costume history since childhood. I learned to sew as a child from my mother, and refined my knowledge of sewing and patternmaking as a college student at F.I.T. My specialty is women’s costume of the mid-nineteenth century, but I also enjoy working with up-and-coming designers and doing custom formalwear. I am involved in several ongoing research projects, including my thesis “Home-made, Tailor-made, Ready-Made: Mary Guion’s Life In Textiles, 1800-1808,” a database of 19th-c. New York City clothing-related establishments, an oral history project on women’s experiences with clothing 1920-1950, an oral history project on contemporary lesbian style, and topics for civil war reenactors; specifically, women’s hairstyles and sewing techniques of the mid nineteenth-century.
I live in Brooklyn, NY, with my wife Nicole and our rats Bogen and Snatch.
http://www.myspace.com/motozulli
e-mail: motozulli@gmail.com