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Deirdre Clemente is a historian and curator of 20th century American material culture, specializing in clothing and fashion. Her work has been profiled in , The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, GQ, , and Harper’s Bazaar. Clemente is the director of the UNLV public history program. She is completing her book manuscript East Coast/West Coast: A History of the American Fashion Industry, which looks at how New York and Los Angeles became the fashion capitals of the country.

A former journalist, Clemente has an MA in Museum Studies: Costumes and Textiles from the Fashion Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in history from Carnegie Mellon University. Her book Dress Casual: How College Kids Redefined American Style (UNC Press, 2014) explores how and why collegians pioneered the adoption of casual dress – one of the most pervasive cultural shifts of the 20th century. She is an expert in the use of fashion in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald and served as a historical consultant for costume in Baz Luhrmann's film, The Great Gatsby.