Karan Feder

2021-2024

Karan Feder is a leading expert in the field of entertainment costume history, preservation, and exhibition. She is a veteran of the entertainment industry with additional professional experience and resources in the museum, attraction, fashion, and marketing fields. Feder is known for her instrumental contributions to the development of the costume & textile collection at the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas. The unique archive is recognized as one of the most significant museum collections of cabaret costumes in the world. She is credited with spearheading the initiative to save the entire existing costume stock from Las Vegas’s legendary Folies Bergère cabaret show which ran at the Hotel Tropicana from 1959-2009. Karan is author/co-author of 6 publications focused on classic entertainment culture and performance costume.