Fashion is a great teacher – The fashion education podcast
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.
Fashion is a great teacher – The fashion education podcast
Valerie Steele on experiential learning, the importance of methodology and whacking the myths of fashion
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Renate Stauss & Franziska Schreiber
In this episode you meet Valerie Steele. She is the director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She is also the founder and editor in chief of the Fashion Theory journal. As author, curator, editor, and educator Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and impacted its education lastingly. Fashion is a great teacher talks to Valerie Steele about finding her fascination for fashion in her mother’s evening dresses, teaching fashion in order to spend her life studying fashion and students as friends and vampires.
Audio editing & mixing: Moritz Bailly
Music by: Johannes von Weizsäcker
Graphic by: Studio Regular