Bach Mai

Education

BFA, The New School

Biography

Bach Mai is a New York City-based womenswear designer from Texas. His professional experience includes Oscar de la Renta, Prabal Gurung, and Maison Margiela in Paris.

Through his work, Bach has developed specialized expertise in fur, shoes, and haute couture. His 2011 written thesis "Fashion and the Designer in the Digital Age" used Walter Benjamin's seminal 1936 essay "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility" as a lens to analyse the impact of the digital revolution on the creation and consumption of fashion in the modern era.

Bach concurrently earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Fashion Design from Parsons The New School for Design and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Arts with a focus on dance and physics from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fashion Design from Institut Francais de la Mode in Paris.