Why choose the master’s course Critical Fashion Practices?
Discover fashion’s transformative capacities
Join us and become part of a community of independent, curious, and optimistic individuals working to build a critical fashion practice and create a more equitable fashion industry.
Diverse and engaging curriculum
This master's course has a project-based curriculum. You'll work with diverse students, gain valuable skills, and prepare for your career.
Define your own research route
You can formulate, explore, and refine your research objectives.
Learn from leading critical fashion practicioners
You receive guidance from leading critical fashion practitioners and other professionals from the field of fashion, art and, design.
Express your research and ideas in your way
You explore various strategies: writing, podcasting, publishing, activism, reading groups, colloquia, curation, and performance.
Interdisciplinary learning community
You get to venture among a network of participants, (guest) tutors, the Fashion Professorship and other master’s courses and professorships.
Exploring alternative forms of fashion
Alternatives to the polluting fast fashion industry are popping up left and right, but we still need to question the fundamental workings of this toxic industry. Aren't most new 'green' or 'diverse' initiatives geared towards easing our minds into guilt-free (fashion) consumption? Shouldn't we fundamentally rethink the concept of fashion, clothes and its values instead?
In the master's course Critical Fashion Practices, you will unlearn imposed modes of production-consumption and move beyond the fashion constraints determined by the traditional fashion industry. You will develop your critical fashion practice, disrupt conventions, challenge beliefs and stir change within the fashion system.