Overview

How fashion education can help create a more inclusive society.   Despite the hard-earned successes of body positive, antiracist, and disability rights activists calling for diverse representation, the fashion industry has been slow to evolve. In Fashion Education: The Systemic Revolution, fashion educators share their experiences navigating, resisting, and transforming the narrow beauty and body ideals that have defined pedagogy within the discipline. The volume examines their challenges and successes, as well as practical strategies for countering narrow fashion education curricula. Educators share ways to radically redesign courses and decenter white supremacy, fatphobia, ableism, transphobia, and misogyny. Together, the chapters illuminate the critical role of fashion education in systematically eliminating body oppression and building a more inclusive profession.

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Author:   Ben Barry (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) ,  Deborah A. Christel
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.762kg
ISBN:  

9781789386431

ISBN 10:   1789386438
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   23 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Radical Fashion Educators Unite: An Introduction – Barry Ben and Deborah A. Christel 1. Blackness in Fashion Education – Krys Osei 2. Indigenizing Fashion Education: Strong Hearts to the Front of the Classroom – Riley Kucheran 3. Queering the Fashion Classroom: Intersectional Student Perspectives – Alicia Johnson, Michael Mamp, Alexis Quinney, Austin Reeves and Joshua Simon 4. Theorizing Fat Oppression: Towards a Pedagogy of Empathy, Inclusion and Intentional Action – Lauren Downing Peters 5. Reflections of a Fat Fashion Faculty Member – Carmen N. Keist 6. Pattern-Cutting without Cultural Appropriation – Kevin Almond and Greg Climer 7. Diversity in Fashion Illustration: An Oxymoron, Don’t You Think? – Colleen Schindler-Lynch 8. Fashion Pedagogy and Disability: Co-Designing Wearables with Disabled People – Grace Jun 9. Decolonizing the Mannequin – Tanveer Ahmed 10. A Starting Point for Fat Fashion Education – Deborah A. Christel 11. Black Lives Matter: Fashion Liberation and the Fight for Freedom – Brandon Spencer and Kelly Reddy-Best 12. Designing for Drag – Sang Thai 13. Curating Empowerment: Negotiating Challenges in Pedagogy, Feminism and Activism in Fashion Exhibitions – Jenny Leigh Du Puis, Rachel Getman, Denise Nicole Green, Chris Hesselbein, Victoria Pietsch and Lynda Xepoleas 14. Beauty to Be Recognized: Making the Fashion Show Accessible – Ben Barry, Avalon Acaso, Robin Chantree, Johnathan Clancy, Bianca Garcia and Anna Pollice 15. A Diversity Network: Industry and Community Collaboration for Inclusive Fashion Design Education – Mal Burkinshaw 16. Redesigning Dignity: A Collaborative Approach to the Universal Hospital Gown – Brittany Dickinson and Lucy Jones 17. Fashion Exorcism: A Journey in Community-Centred Design – JOFF Notes on Contributors Index

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'If you have been searching for a toolkit to dismantle systems of oppression in fashion education, then look no further, you are holding the definitive guide in your hands. Read, plan, then transform.' -- Vicki Karaminas, co-author of Queer Style and Libertine Fashion, Sexual Freedom, Rebellion and Style.

If you have been searching for a toolkit to dismantle systems of the oppression in fashion education, then look no further, you are holding the definitive guide in your hands. Read, plan, then transform. -- Vicki Karaminas * Co-author of Queer Style and Libertine Fashion, Sexual Freedom, Rebellion and Style. *

Author Information

Dr. Ben Barry is Dean and Associate Professor of Equity and Inclusion in the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design. His academic leadership, teaching and research aims to confront, resist and transform the fashion system’s narrow ideas and ideals. Dr. Deborah Christel is a fat fashion designer, size-inclsuive business founder and former professor of plus-size design and fat studies. With over a decade of research examining weight bias in the fashion industry, her goal is to ensure bodies of all sizes have equal and equitable access to clothing they find desirable and comfortable.

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