IN CONVERSATION: Emma Safir, Madeleine Luckel, and Ashley D'Arcy

Ashley D’Arcy is an editor, writer, and psychoanalyst-in-formation in New York City. She holds an MA in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and a BA in English and American literature from New York University. She is the author of "(Un)Popular Mysticism on the Internet" (Platform Editions, 2018) and the poetry chapbooks "early poems" (Grey Book Press, 2015) and "The Animus Speaks" (Aventures LTD, 2017). Her writing has been featured in 032c, Prelude Magazine, Newest York, The Nation, and elsewhere.

Madeleine Luckel’s research interests center on the depiction of ornament in art, decorative arts, and material culture during the nineteenth century and its surrounding decades. Luckel has held curatorial internships at The Met’s Costume Institute, Philadelphia Museum of Art, de Young Museum, Museum at FIT, RISD Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has published two book chapters, “The Eye Has to Eat: Food, Fashion, and Art’s Enduring Intersects” in Food and Fashion (Bloomsbury) and “Picture Perfect: Hermès, Its Silk Scarves, and Twenty-First Century Experiential Events” in Storytelling in Luxury Fashion: Brands, Visual Cultures, and Technologies (Routledge). Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a Senior Design Editor at Architectural Digest, Living Writer at Vogue.com, and Features Associate at Vogue. Madeleine holds an MA in Costume Studies from NYU and a BA in Classics with Honors from Brown University, where she graduated magna cum laude.