The Multilogue was a key moment in fostering much-needed cross-disciplinary and trans-cultural reflection and collaboration.
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education on 25 September 2020 was an open-access space for collaboration. It brough fashion educators together – not just to listen but to meet and start multiple international dialogues.
The conference offered a series of short provocations, a conversation and at the heart of it 18 small-scale workshops – all generously facilitated by some of the most inspiring voices in fashion education and on the edge of it. Framed by thought-provoking talks, the workshops were important opportunities to meet, exchange experiences, to learn from each other and develop ideas together.
The event was friendly supported by The American University of Paris, netzwerk mode textil, The Civic Media Lab
THE DIGITAL MULTILOGUE 2020
SUMMARY
PROVOCATION I
Dilys Williams
Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London
Dilys Williams
Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London
PROVOCATION II
Kim Jenkins
Assistant Professor, Ryerson University
Founder of the Fashion and Race Database
Kim Jenkins
Assistant Professor, Ryerson University
Founder of the Fashion and Race Database
PROVOCATION III
Zowie Broach
Head of Fashion Royal College of Art, London
Zowie Broach
Head of Fashion Royal College of Art, London
THE CONVERSATION:
FASHION | EDUCATION | THE DIGITAL
Alistair O’Neill
Professor of Fashion History and Theory,Central Saint Martins, London
IN CONVERSATION WITH
Sarah Mower
MBE Fashion Journalist, Chief Critic US Vogue,British Fashion Council’s Ambassador for Emerging Talent
&
Matthew Drinkwater
Head of Innovation Agency, LCF, London
FASHION | EDUCATION | THE DIGITAL
Alistair O’Neill
Professor of Fashion History and Theory,Central Saint Martins, London
IN CONVERSATION WITH
Sarah Mower
MBE Fashion Journalist, Chief Critic US Vogue,British Fashion Council’s Ambassador for Emerging Talent
&
Matthew Drinkwater
Head of Innovation Agency, LCF, London
CONTRIBUTORS
BOARD OF ADVISORS
Alistair O’Neill
Professor of Fashion History and Theory,
Central Saint Martins, London
Professor Alistair O’Neill is a writer, curator and professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London). He is a member of the Photography and the Archive research centre, sits on the editorial board of Fashion Theory and writes regularly for Aperture magazine. His research interests include twentieth-century and contemporary fashion; menswear; fashion photography in relation to visual culture; fashion curation and histories of display; and London as a centre for fashion cultures.
Professor of Fashion History and Theory,
Central Saint Martins, London
Professor Alistair O’Neill is a writer, curator and professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London). He is a member of the Photography and the Archive research centre, sits on the editorial board of Fashion Theory and writes regularly for Aperture magazine. His research interests include twentieth-century and contemporary fashion; menswear; fashion photography in relation to visual culture; fashion curation and histories of display; and London as a centre for fashion cultures.
Christina H. Moon
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Fashion Studies, Parsons,
The New School, New York
Christina H. Moon is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design. Her research looks at the social ties and cultural encounters between design worlds and manufacturing landscapes across Asia and the Americas, exploring the memory, migration, and labor of cultural workers. Moon writes on fashion, design and labor, material culture, social memory, the ephemeral and everyday, and ways of knowing and representing in ethnographic practice. She is a fellow of the Social Science Research Council, Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought and India China Institute at The New School, and member of the Fashion Praxis working group at Parsons. Her most recent book project is Ephemera, in collaboration with the photographer Lauren Lancaster, which traces fast-fashion across Los Angeles, Seoul, and New York. She is also author of Labor and Creativity in New York's Global Fashion Industry and the co-edited volume, Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia.
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Fashion Studies, Parsons,
The New School, New York
Christina H. Moon is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design. Her research looks at the social ties and cultural encounters between design worlds and manufacturing landscapes across Asia and the Americas, exploring the memory, migration, and labor of cultural workers. Moon writes on fashion, design and labor, material culture, social memory, the ephemeral and everyday, and ways of knowing and representing in ethnographic practice. She is a fellow of the Social Science Research Council, Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought and India China Institute at The New School, and member of the Fashion Praxis working group at Parsons. Her most recent book project is Ephemera, in collaboration with the photographer Lauren Lancaster, which traces fast-fashion across Los Angeles, Seoul, and New York. She is also author of Labor and Creativity in New York's Global Fashion Industry and the co-edited volume, Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia.
Dilys WilliamsFounder & Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, UAL
Dilys Williams is founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a University of the Arts London Research Centre, based at London College of Fashion. Dilys’ work explores fashion’s relational ecological, social, economic and cultural elements to contribute to sustainability in and through its artistic, business and educational practices. Trained at Manchester Metropolitan University and holding a UAL professorship in Fashion Design for Sustainability, Dilys publishes widely on fashion and sustainability in peer reviewed academic journals and published books. Dilys’ work draws on extensive experience in lead womenswear designer roles for international collections, including at Katharine Hamnett, Liberty and Whistles. This industry experience is complimented by a longstanding internationally recognised teaching and research portfolio centred on the development of sustainability centred design practices, based on principles of holism, participation and transformation design. She is a member of the UNFCCC Global Climate Action in Fashion and sits on advisory committees for Positive Luxury and the Global Fashion Agenda. Her place on the Evening Standard London’s Progress 1000 list in 2015, 2016 and 2017 evidences the public and academic influence of her work alongside regular appearances on broadcast television, radio and magazines including recent appearances on BBC World, Sky News, Radio 4, WWD, the Gentlewoman, Vogue and Elle magazine.
Dilys Williams is founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a University of the Arts London Research Centre, based at London College of Fashion. Dilys’ work explores fashion’s relational ecological, social, economic and cultural elements to contribute to sustainability in and through its artistic, business and educational practices. Trained at Manchester Metropolitan University and holding a UAL professorship in Fashion Design for Sustainability, Dilys publishes widely on fashion and sustainability in peer reviewed academic journals and published books. Dilys’ work draws on extensive experience in lead womenswear designer roles for international collections, including at Katharine Hamnett, Liberty and Whistles. This industry experience is complimented by a longstanding internationally recognised teaching and research portfolio centred on the development of sustainability centred design practices, based on principles of holism, participation and transformation design. She is a member of the UNFCCC Global Climate Action in Fashion and sits on advisory committees for Positive Luxury and the Global Fashion Agenda. Her place on the Evening Standard London’s Progress 1000 list in 2015, 2016 and 2017 evidences the public and academic influence of her work alongside regular appearances on broadcast television, radio and magazines including recent appearances on BBC World, Sky News, Radio 4, WWD, the Gentlewoman, Vogue and Elle magazine.
Elke Gaugele
Ph.D., Professor of Fashion and Styles, Institute of Education, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Elke Gaugele is professor for Fashion and Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and head of the Austrian Center for Fashion Research (ACfFR). She is a cultural anthropologist, researcher, writer, and curator, her publications include: Fashion and Postcolonial Critique (Sternberg 2019 ed. with Monica Titton); Dressing Dissent: Fashion as Politics, Special Issue Fashion Theory. The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, Vol. 24, 2019 (ed. with Monica Titton); Aesthetic Politics in Fashion (ed. Sternberg 2014).
Ph.D., Professor of Fashion and Styles, Institute of Education, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Elke Gaugele is professor for Fashion and Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and head of the Austrian Center for Fashion Research (ACfFR). She is a cultural anthropologist, researcher, writer, and curator, her publications include: Fashion and Postcolonial Critique (Sternberg 2019 ed. with Monica Titton); Dressing Dissent: Fashion as Politics, Special Issue Fashion Theory. The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, Vol. 24, 2019 (ed. with Monica Titton); Aesthetic Politics in Fashion (ed. Sternberg 2014).
Valerie Steele
Ph.D., Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Valerie Steele is Director and Chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she has personally organized more than 25 exhibitions since 1997. She is also founder and editor in chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, the first peer-reviewed, scholarly journal in Fashion Studies. As author, curator, editor, educator and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion.
Ph.D., Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Valerie Steele is Director and Chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she has personally organized more than 25 exhibitions since 1997. She is also founder and editor in chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, the first peer-reviewed, scholarly journal in Fashion Studies. As author, curator, editor, educator and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion.
Zowie Broach
Professor, Head of Fashion RCA,The Royal College of Art, London
Zowie Broach is Head of Programme for FASHION RCA. Since arriving in 2015 she has radically changed the paradigm of what it means today to consider how we might design in FASHION. Zowie previously co-founded the label BOUDICCA, the first independent British Label to show during Couture, Paris, as well as exhibit at and become part of the permanent collections in a number of international museums, such as Chicago Arts Institute and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Whilst at the RCA, FASHION has established a new series of platforms – Optimal Systems, Digital 360 and Bio as Design that expand the practise of Fashion. This is not exclusive of values, economy and philosophy of self; taking on board the myriad of potentials that need investigating to assure a practise that can reveal and express the question of identity for our future. Zowie Broach has been voted into the top 500 Fashion Leaders by Business of Fashion for the last 5 years and was a member of the British Fashion Trust jury in 2019.
Professor, Head of Fashion RCA,The Royal College of Art, London
Zowie Broach is Head of Programme for FASHION RCA. Since arriving in 2015 she has radically changed the paradigm of what it means today to consider how we might design in FASHION. Zowie previously co-founded the label BOUDICCA, the first independent British Label to show during Couture, Paris, as well as exhibit at and become part of the permanent collections in a number of international museums, such as Chicago Arts Institute and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Whilst at the RCA, FASHION has established a new series of platforms – Optimal Systems, Digital 360 and Bio as Design that expand the practise of Fashion. This is not exclusive of values, economy and philosophy of self; taking on board the myriad of potentials that need investigating to assure a practise that can reveal and express the question of identity for our future. Zowie Broach has been voted into the top 500 Fashion Leaders by Business of Fashion for the last 5 years and was a member of the British Fashion Trust jury in 2019.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT
Moritz Bailly, digital event manager and podcast editor. Johanna Braun, production & research assistant (UdK) Hannah Groß, production & research assistant (UdK). Gina Mönch, graphic designer (studioheyhey). Paulina Münzing, production & research assistant (UdK) Provost Bill Fisher (AUP). Kilian Ordelheide, Director of Communications (AUP). Brenda Torney, Coordinator of Academic Budgets and Grants (AUP). Waddick Doyle, Associate Dean, Academic Program Innovation (AUP)
Moritz Bailly, digital event manager and podcast editor. Johanna Braun, production & research assistant (UdK) Hannah Groß, production & research assistant (UdK). Gina Mönch, graphic designer (studioheyhey). Paulina Münzing, production & research assistant (UdK) Provost Bill Fisher (AUP). Kilian Ordelheide, Director of Communications (AUP). Brenda Torney, Coordinator of Academic Budgets and Grants (AUP). Waddick Doyle, Associate Dean, Academic Program Innovation (AUP)