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
Elke Gaugele on teaching activism, and decoding the political meaning of fashion for social change
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Renate Stauss & Franziska Schreiber
In this episode you meet Elke Gaugele – a highly political cultural anthropologist, writer, and curator, she is professor for Fashion and Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and head of the Austrian Center for Fashion Research (ACfFR). Fashion is a great teacher talks to her about: intellectual activism, the impact of teaching fashion teachers, how making her own clothes determined her scholarship, and not wanting to reinvent herself as a Marxist.
Audio editing & mixing by: Moritz Bailly
Music by: Johannes von Weizsäcker
Graphic by: Studio Regular