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Join VCNY at 7:00 p.m. ET for an engaging conversation between TV personality, designer, stylist, author, and midlife advocate Stacy London ’91 and Vassar Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Anne Brancky as they explore Stacy's dynamic career and the enduring influence of her Vassar education.

From her early days as a magazine editor to co-hosting the iconic What Not to Wear and founding her own fashion brand, Stacy has championed authenticity, transformation, and empowerment through style.

In this intimate dialogue, Stacy reflects on how her liberal arts background helped shape her voice and vision in the fashion industry, and her experiences as a cultural commentator, including in one of her newest projects Wear Whatever the F You Want.

Please register for our virtual program with Stacy. You will have the opportunity to submit questions during registration.

About Our Speakers
Stacy London is best known as the co-host of the iconic TLC show What Not To Wear. She was a regular correspondent on Today, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Access Hollywood, The View, and Rachael Ray for many years. Amazon has announced her new TV show with Clinton Kelly called Wear Whatever The F You Want, slated to air in 2025. She served as the spokesperson for Pantene, Dr. Scholl’s, Lee Jeans, and Woolite. Her book, The Truth About Style, was a New York Times bestseller. Stacy also co-founded the brand State Of Menopause to address issues surrounding the menopause experience. She is an advisor to Evernow, a telehealth and menopause treatment platform, and Flow Health, a media platform for women’s health. She is on the Board of Directors for two non-profit organizations, Chronicon Foundation and Glam4Good. Her experience in the women’s health space propelled her back to fashion to help people in mid-life find a new sense of self-esteem and power in aging. She currently has a fashion brand exclusive to QVC.

Anne Brancky completed a BA in French at DePaul University in Chicago, and went on to receive her MA and PhD in French literature at New York University. Her recent teaching and research have focused on literature and crime, visual cultures, autotheory and political self-writing, feminist theory and praxis, television, and the reciprocal relationship between French-language literature and the popular media in the 20th and 21st centuries. She also teaches in the Women’s Studies Program.

Her work has been published in Modern Language Studies, The French Review, Interférences Littéraires and the collected volumes Marguerite Duras et le fait divers (Minard, 2020) and French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century (University of Delaware Press, 2017). Her book, The Crimes of Marguerite Duras: Literature and the Media in Twentieth-Century France, is now available from Cambridge University Press.