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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.

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Fashion is a great teacher – The fashion education podcast

Alistair O’Neill on fashion as agency and the importance of understanding fashion through its making

March 03, 2021 • Renate Stauss & Franziska Schreiber

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In this episode you meet Alistair O’Neill, writer, curator and professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins in London. His research concerns the role of material and making, and the representation of contemporary fashion culture. He fosters practice-led theory teaching and a mutually beneficial culture between education, curation and industry. Fashion is a great teacher talks to him about: the importance of understanding fashion through its making, about aptitude and appetite, and five pieces of stapled A4 paper as the perfect object to explain sustainable fashion to the public. Interview: Renate Stauss

Audio editing & mixing: Moritz Bailly
Music by: Johannes von Weizsäcker
Graphic by: Studio Regular