Harold Koda (born January 3, 1950, in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American fashion scholar, curator, and the former curator-in-chief of the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[1] While at the costume institute, Koda curated or co-curated, among other shows, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations (2012),[2] "Charles James Beyond Fashion" (2014),[3][4] and "Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style" (2015)[5] He retired from his position at the museum in 2016 and was succeeded in it by Andrew Bolton.
Koda is the co-author of upwards of twenty books, including twelve catalogues for exhibitions held at the Metropolitan Museum.
[6][7] Koda appears in Andrew Rossi's 2016 documentary film The First Monday in May which is the staging of the Metropolitan Museum's annual Costume Institute Gala.
[9] He co-curated the 2009 Metropolitan Costume Institute exhibition, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion.