The Fashion Studies Journal (FSJ) is a quarterly online journal. Founded in 2012 by students in the MA Fashion Studies program at Parsons School of Design (New York, NY), it began as a platform for graduate-level writing in the emerging field of fashion studies. In our first years, we were a strictly academic publication, approaching fashion phenomena from cerebral, critical, and at times (we hate to admit it) inaccessible angles. With our 2016 relaunch, however, we shifted our emphasis away from strictly academic writing. Today, and we are here to make connections: between ideas and objects, and between ourselves and the fashion-literate population at-large. Through critical, thoughtful writing, we seek to carve a space to address current issues facing the contemporary fashion landscape, while simultaneously examining these issues through the lenses of history and theory. Beyond publishing, FSJ also seeks to break down the “fourth wall” of academic writing by forging real, person-to-person connections through an open peer-review process, but also through events such as our annual Fashion & Spinach dinner series, book clubs, workshops, film screenings, and clothing swaps.