Fashion & Textiles Institute: Research & Knowledge Exchange
With a focus on the material culture of dress and textiles, the diversity of dress practices and the politics and power of the sartorial, the Fashion & Textiles Institute's research contributes to a growing field of scholarship that creates capacity for change that is impactful in the wider fashion and textile industries.
Research focus
Our research is influenced by the The Fashion & Textile Institute's unique location, which is home to distinctive dress practices and a micro-climate that nurtures potential for innovative and regenerative textiles.
Our research explores resistance to the received wisdom around fashion and textiles that privileges the narratives of the Global North over those of the Global South and narratives that condemn the environment.
We believe things can change in the fashion and textiles industries. We seek to learn from the past, using our superb resources such as the Fashion & Textiles Institute's Textiles and Dress Collection, a research and teaching collection of over four thousand objects of everyday dress spanning the last two hundred years, and our on-campus natural dye garden. We want to explore what alternative practices may already exist in or local communities, and to unpick how on-screen representations of clothing play into discourses around dress.
Explore our research projects
Dress Devolution 2
The conference is supported by the Fashion and Textiles Institute at Falmouth University and will ta...
Discover our doctoral project briefs
African Portrait Photography Archives
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...
Unseen: examining underwear dress techniques and practices around the Textiles and Dress Collection’s Men’s Bodywear Collection and/or Ivy Leaf Corsetry Collection
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...
