Clara Pellegris is a lecturer and researcher specializing in Fashion History, Costume History, and Art History at Ferrari Fashion School in Milan and the IUAD Academy – Institute of Universal Art and Design in Milan.
In July 2021, she earned a PhD in Transcultural Humanistic Studies with a thesis titled Homo Faber: la ricostruzione identitaria italiana e la nascita del Made in Italy, focused on the post-World War II promotional events that established the international success of Italian artistic craftsmanship, fashion, and design, with a detailed study of the original material from the Archivio della Moda Italiana di Giovan Battista Giorgini, preserved at the State Archive of Florence.
She collaborated with the University of Bergamo as a subject expert for the course in Costume and Fashion History and as a research fellow in Modern Art History. At the same university, she participated in the ARTE | MODA Archive project of the C.A.V. – Visual Arts Center, dedicated to archiving and documenting fashion from the 14th century to 1899 through iconographic sources.
Today she teaches and conducts research, contributing to the preservation and transmission of historical knowledge of fashion and costume through a rigorous and creative approach.