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Elisa van Joolen (Amsterdam)

www.elisavanjoolen.com

Lillian Wilkie (London)

Publisher, Editor, Writer, Artist, Lecturer

"Fashion is a language of material pleasure; it articulates desire and selfhood. The mouthpiece for this language of fashion - mediating, complicating, democratising - is imagery."

chet julius (Vught, NL)

Activist, Embodied and Artistic Researcher, Writer, Educator

chetjulius.com

@ chetjulius

"In my practice, I aim to restore the power and value of the living bodies within the fashion system."

Jay McCauley Bowstead (London)

Author and Researcher

www.arts.ac.uk/research/ual-staff-researchers/jay-mccauley-bowstead

@ mccauleybowstead

"Fashion isn’t just a design discipline or set of industries. It’s also a verb: to shape, or create – to fashion ourselves and our world anew."

Daniel Caulfield-Sriklad (London, UK)

Education and Practice

@ mrdanielcs

"Fashion is a practice, navigating the space between being and becoming. Dressing, wearing and undressing the physical, emotional, mental and subtle body as we go."

Emily McGuire (Brisbane, Australia)

Artist, writer

"Fashion is something that distracts you from the fact that one day, you're going to die."

Lauren Peters, PhD. (Chicago, IL)

Educator/Researcher/Curator

www.laurendowningpeters.com

"Our social skin."

Emily Nam (New York, USA)

Garment Maker and Educator

energyhealingcommunity.com

"Fashion: defined as a practice, cultivates an interpersonal, creative and community experience - in collaboration with material and form."

Laura Gardner (Melbourne, Australia)

Writer, Editor, Lecturer

modealsomode.com

@ modealsomode

"I see ‘fashion’ in a wide-ranging sense. An aesthetic phenomenon connected to everyday experience, commerce and culture. My work looks at the representation of fashion beyond the garment, through publishing, writing, performance and curation."

Beata Wilczek (Berlin, Germany)

Educator, Resarcher, Artist

beatawilczek.net

@ beatawilczek

"1. Fashion is a complex ecosystem that creates spaces, values, matter and affect. 2. Your worn out pajama pants."

Caroline Stevenson (London)

Curator and Writer

www.arts.ac.uk/research/ual-staff-researchers/caroline-stevenson

"Fashion is a language."

Jo Cope (Leicester UK)

Conceptual and Social Fashion

www.jocope.com

"To reconsider fashions future role in society as a vessel for positive change and a valuable tool for embodying and communicating human centred stories."