Who are we?
We are a group of interdisciplinary academics within Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, who undertake fashion-based research across a number of different fields, including Art and Performance, Design, History, Race Studies, Sociology, and Youth Studies.
What do we do?
We drive social change by working critically and creatively with fashion and storytelling. The imperative to analyze fashion as narrative and to interrogate its role in the construction of human life stories derives from a belief that the fashion industry and fashion education will only become more accountable, ethical and inclusive through the telling of different stories. These are stories that demonstrate how garments exist within constellations of meaning that emphasise the interconnections between our human and more than human world.
Our work connects with a growing international movement, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and encompassing the academy, arts and industry, that recognises the importance of human culture, and our more than human world, in the creation of value, personal and communal, psychological and material.
Our aims
BUILD – a field identity and generate critical mass.
CREATE – interdisciplinary collaboration.
CHANGE – perspectives within and beyond the Higher Education sector about the commercial and philosophical value of critical cultural studies.
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