Rebecca Jumper Matheson has pursued her interest in fashion/dress/costume in environments ranging from museums to the performing arts. A former research assistant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she is co-curator of the Museum at FIT exhibition Designing the It Girl: Lucile and Her Style and author of "'A House That Is Made of Hats': The Lilly Dach Building, 19371968" in The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 18002007 (2008).