Anne Hollander (1930–2014)

Anne Hollander, née Loesser, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1952, she received a BA from Barnard College, majoring in art history. The following year, she married John Hollander, a poet, with whom she had two daughters. After a divorce, she remarried to philosopher Thomas Nagel. Her work as an independent scholar provided new insights into the history of fashion and clothing and their relation to the history of art. She lived in New York City and after 1989 spent part of each year in Paris.

She taught courses at New York University, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Indiana University, and lectured widely at other universities and museums. She published essays and reviews in The New York Times, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Connoisseur, The American Scholar, The Yale Review, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others.
Between 1994 and 1996, she served as President of PEN American Center. She was also a Fellow of The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and served as Acting Director in 1995-96. In 2002, she curated the exhibition, "Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting" at The National Gallery in London.

She was the author of several books, including Seeing Through Clothes (1978), Moving Pictures (1989), Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (1994), Feeding the Eye (2000), and Woman in the Mirror (2005).