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Fashion is a great teacher The fashion education podcastAuthor: Renate Stauss & Franziska Schreiber
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, professors of fashion theory and fashion design in Paris and Berlin 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. Language: en Genres: Arts, Education, Fashion & Beauty Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Ben Barry on unpicking jackets, instituting justice and remembering the joy of fashion
Friday, 4 April, 2025
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. Ben Barry has been described as an ‘idea machine’ whose work has been lauded as ‘positive, determined action to undo stereotypes and redefine society's idea of beauty. He is Dean and Associate Professor of Equity and Inclusion in the School of Fashion – at Parsons School of Design in New York City.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. Sound editor: Moritz BaillyMusic by: Johannes von WeizsäckerGraphic by: Studio Regular
