About
Fashion at The Creative School has over 35 years of experience nurturing our students to become the next fashion leaders, makers, doers and thinkers. Students exit the program equipped to systemically transform the Canadian and global fashion system while contributing to question and investigate new ideas in the ever-evolving landscape of Fashion. By centring new worldviews and actions, the School of Fashion continues to impact the legacy of leadership in the Fashion industry.
Guiding Principles
Fashion’s guiding principles to Decolonization, Inclusion, Sustainability and Accessibility inform the School’s approach to teaching, research and creativity, as well as our industry and community partnerships.
Decolonization
Fashion aims to disrupt the Eurocentric and colonial perspectives and narratives underlying Western fashion education and to centre the fashion histories, worldviews, and practices of Indigenous, Black and Peoples of Colour.
Sustainability
Fashion reimagines a fashion system and production practices that protect environmental and human resources and promote environmental and social justice.
Inclusion
Fashion centres the bodies and perspectives of fat, disabled, queer, trans, non-binary and otherwise marginalized students, scholars, designers and wearers and values equitable access to educational and employment opportunities in fashion.
Accessibility
Fashion acknowledges and respects makers’ and wearers’ different and differing abilities of all stages of life. Fashion making and thinking includes the wide diversity of skills and capacities of all people.