Dr Rachel Matthews is an educator and researcher whose work explores mediation and communication, change-making and narratives of influence in fashion. As a fashion educator, Rachel employs responsible relational pedagogies, and a critically optimistic vision of how de-centred and co-created practices can positively shape the future of fashion.

Rachel
Matthews

Education
Creative Practice

Understanding ugg boots: Travels through place, space and time

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Taste-making in turbulent times: Vogue and its social networks

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Redrawing the Timeline: Teaching the History of Fashion in the Networked Conditions of the Twenty-First Century

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Contemporary Fashion Tastemakers: Starting Conversations that Matter

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Finding Sustainable Strategies for Fashion Communication through Digital Channels

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Wearing and sharing #wardrobechallenges: Finding inspiration when you have nothing to wear

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Future of Sustainable Fashion Communications: From Marketing Messages to the Mediation of Mutable Meanings

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What’s in your wardrobe? Kindness in assessment design

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Understanding ugg boots: Travels through place, space and time ✻ Taste-making in turbulent times: Vogue and its social networks ✻ Redrawing the Timeline: Teaching the History of Fashion in the Networked Conditions of the Twenty-First Century ✻ Contemporary Fashion Tastemakers: Starting Conversations that Matter ✻ Finding Sustainable Strategies for Fashion Communication through Digital Channels ✻ Wearing and sharing #wardrobechallenges: Finding inspiration when you have nothing to wear ✻ Future of Sustainable Fashion Communications: From Marketing Messages to the Mediation of Mutable Meanings ✻ What’s in your wardrobe? Kindness in assessment design ✻

“I think fashion is so powerful because it's a visual expression of who we are.

It says something about what we hold internally in ourselves, what our inside ideas of ourselves are, on what we want to communicate to others. And I think it's a way of connecting with other people in the world.”