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Rachel Matthews

Dr Rachel Matthews is an educator and researcher whose work explores taste-making, change-making and narratives of influence in fashion. As a fashion educator, Rachel promotes responsible design pedagogies and a critically optimistic vision of how fashion communication practices can shape the future.

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Understanding ugg boots: Travels through place, space and time

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Taste-making in turbulent times: Vogue and its social networks

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Redrawing the Timeline: Teaching the History of Fashion in the Networked Conditions of the Twenty-First Century

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Contemporary Fashion Tastemakers: Starting Conversations that Matter

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Understanding ugg boots: Travels through place, space and time ✻ Taste-making in turbulent times: Vogue and its social networks ✻ Redrawing the Timeline: Teaching the History of Fashion in the Networked Conditions of the Twenty-First Century ✻ Contemporary Fashion Tastemakers: Starting Conversations that Matter ✻

“I think fashion is so powerful because it's a visual expression of who we are. It says something about what we hold internally in ourselves, what our inside ideas of ourselves are, on what we want to communicate to others. And I think it's a way of connecting with other people in the world.”