Where do we learn fashion? In our grandmother’s lap, in the street, the club, the market, everywhere. Professional fashion learning used to take place in workshops and studios, ateliers and factories. It still does. Yet, from the 19th century it also moved into colleges and universities. Fashion education became increasingly specialized, institutionalized and intellectualized. As a result, we see a dualism between informal and professional fashion learning, and between vocational and tertiary education. One seems more valid than the other. One seems more worth than the other. There are severe hierarchies within fashion education that mirror and codetermine those in the professional field. Hierarchies between sites of learning, qualifications, the value of professions, the value of subsequent work, between intellectual and manual labour, between the worth of human beings and human lives. Global hierarchies and local hierarchies. Fashion education has increasingly become inaccessible. Increasingly distinctive, discriminatory, disembodied – disconnected from the everyday.
Let us explore walking for learning. Walking, the free and open activity we all do every day – if not in body, then in mind. Walking, not as a neutral activity, equally determined by gender, class, race, physical ability, but walking as a call to action.
Together let us explore walking to decentralize and dehierarchise fashion learning.
ACCESS
free & open, registration required – all welcome!
in-person participation:
find a walk near you and check the details
on the individual walking pages in the program brochure.
online participation:
glocal, global and off-site walks can be joined online,
some ask us to be outdoors, some invite us to walk without moving. Glocal and global walks can be accessed via ZOOM.
There are two spaces: ZOOM A & ZOOM B
Download program for details and links.
languages:
all walks are offered in English and in the language/s spoken in the respective locality. Please see individual walks for details. Online participants can use Zoom Real-Time-Translation.
Interested in further readings?
Visit the Learning to Walk / Walking to Learn – sources & resources online readling list
What is the Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education anyway?
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education wants to create connections and actions within and across different fashion learning cultures and contexts. It was founded in 2019 as a participatory and outcome-oriented space and a series of conferences focused on the learning and teaching of fashion. It aims to explore and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the field and the practices of fashion education, and to foster a greater understanding of its pasts, presents and futures – methods, values and didactic, pedagogic and epistemological questions – creating a global exchange to inspire mutual learning, collaborative research and shared action.
When is the Multilogue 2026 taking place?
30 September 2026.
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education wants to create connections and actions within and across different fashion learning cultures and contexts. It was founded in 2019 as a participatory and outcome-oriented space and a series of conferences focused on the learning and teaching of fashion. It aims to explore and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the field and the practices of fashion education, and to foster a greater understanding of its pasts, presents and futures – methods, values and didactic, pedagogic and epistemological questions – creating a global exchange to inspire mutual learning, collaborative research and shared action.
When is the Multilogue 2026 taking place?
30 September 2026.
What is it about and why?
The two-part edition of The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2025/2026 is about: Learning to Walk, Walking to Learn. Download full programm brochure here.
Where is it happening: online / hybrid / in-person?
People are called to come together online to connect with global fashion learning communities. Anyway, everyone is invited to meet locally with friends and peers, joining the global community online.
Who could participate?
Everyone. The Multilogues are always open-access and free for all. As should all education be! And, as Everyone is a fashion learner. Just register here.
I have more questions, who can I ask?
Please don’t hesitate to contact us on:
multilogue@fashioneducation.org
The two-part edition of The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2025/2026 is about: Learning to Walk, Walking to Learn. Download full programm brochure here.
Where is it happening: online / hybrid / in-person?
People are called to come together online to connect with global fashion learning communities. Anyway, everyone is invited to meet locally with friends and peers, joining the global community online.
Who could participate?
Everyone. The Multilogues are always open-access and free for all. As should all education be! And, as Everyone is a fashion learner. Just register here.
I have more questions, who can I ask?
Please don’t hesitate to contact us on:
multilogue@fashioneducation.org
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education wants to create connections and actions within and across different fashion learning cultures and contexts. It was founded in 2019 as a participatory and outcome-oriented space and a series of conferences focused on the learning and teaching of fashion. It aims to explore and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the field and the practices of fashion education, and to foster a greater understanding of its pasts, presents and futures – methods, values and didactic, pedagogic and epistemological questions – creating a global exchange to inspire mutual learning, collaborative research and shared action.
The Multilogues are organized by Franziska Schreiber & Dr. Renate Stauss, who are brought together and driven by their love for making and wearing fashion, for learning and thinking through fashion, and their belief in its connective, educational and transformative potential.
The Multilogues are organized by Franziska Schreiber & Dr. Renate Stauss, who are brought together and driven by their love for making and wearing fashion, for learning and thinking through fashion, and their belief in its connective, educational and transformative potential.
• FINAL PROGRAM OUT NOW • THE DIGITAL MULTILOGUE ON FASHION EDUCATION • 30 SEPTEMBER 2026 • PART 2 - THE WALKING MULTILOGUE ON DECENTRALISING & DEHIERARCHISING LEARNING & TEACHING FASHION
ORGANISERS
Dr. Renate Stauss is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at The American University of Paris in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture. She is also a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Franziska Schreiber is a fashion designer
and fashion educator at the
Berlin University of the Arts amongst others.
FASHION IS A GREAT TEACHER – THE FASHION EDUCATION PODCAST
Fashion is a great teacher because it provides a fantastic lens to learn about the world and its people, about history, politics and culture. Join Renate Stauss and Franziska Schreiber, to discover the most inspiring voices in fashion education, their take on the how and why of learning and teaching fashion, their doubts and hopes, their lessons from fashion.
Listen to the latest episode!
Ben Barry on ‘on Unpicking jackets, instating justice and remembering the joy of fashion'
In this episode you meet Ben Barry - fashion educator, designer-researcher and academic leader who is devoted to equity, inclusion and social justice in fashion education and the fashion industry.
Fashion is a great teacher talks to him about unpicking his suit jackets and inherent notions of masculinity, transformative educational experiences and using ones’ body to navigate the complexities of institutional change. Finding liberatory pockets and fashion utopia in everyday clothing. And how it all started with him playing in his grandmother’s closet.
Ben Barry on ‘on Unpicking jackets, instating justice and remembering the joy of fashion'
In this episode you meet Ben Barry - fashion educator, designer-researcher and academic leader who is devoted to equity, inclusion and social justice in fashion education and the fashion industry.
Fashion is a great teacher talks to him about unpicking his suit jackets and inherent notions of masculinity, transformative educational experiences and using ones’ body to navigate the complexities of institutional change. Finding liberatory pockets and fashion utopia in everyday clothing. And how it all started with him playing in his grandmother’s closet.
THE FASHION EDUCATORS’ WORLD MAP
Come together! - towards a collaborative community of fashion educators. Join this global community mapping, inaugurated at The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2020
Please join on Padlet!
FASHIONING EDUCATION
Fashioning education is a collaborative research initiative to open, facilitate and formalise the debate on fashion education against the backdrop of global social transformations.
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