The Practice of Theory

This essay is concerned with the location of theory in practice-based fashion education. It contributes to a growing recognition of the productive relationship between theory and practice in fashion more broadly and the opportunities that this affords us, as educators, to develop critical fashion pedagogies with transformative actions in the real world. Through this essay, I share some ideas for micro interventions in the form of workshops. These workshops, although small in scope, aim to reconcile the gap between theory and practice, and also question the relationship between authority and language in fashion knowledge.