Winchester School of Art and WSA Exchange are pleased to invite you to the first Fashion Thinkers event, which will take place on Thursday 22 February at 17:30 on the University of Southampton’s Winchester School of Art Campus. We are delighted to welcome Charles Jeffrey to speak at this event in the Fashion Thinkers series.
Fashion Thinkers is a new initiative curated by Professor Jonathan Faiers and the Fashion & Textiles Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
Fashion and textiles are central to an understanding of global culture and are one of the most inclusive and effective channels through which today’s most urgent questions can be debated and assumptions challenged.
Fashion Thinkers invites some of today’s most creative, challenging and inspiring designers, artists, curators, writers and makers to discuss what fashion means to them. Instinctually interdisciplinary, inclusive and sustainable, these Fashion Thinkers are united by their belief in the power of clothing and textiles to encourage new ways of thinking, making and being.
Beginning with trailblazing designer and radical Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY on 22 February, the project continues with Oriole Cullen, curator of the V&A’s blockbuster exhibition Gabrielle Chanel Fashion Manifesto, on 19 March. On 25 April Nicholas Daley, menswear designer and curator celebrated for his exploration of cultural identities, will be Fashion Thinking at WSA. Keep an eye on the Winchester School of Art website for future event details.
Find out more, and join the first Fashion Thinkers event: Jonathan Faiers in conversation with designer Charles Jeffrey, on Thursday 22 February.