About
For more than 35 years, the School of Fashion at The Creative School has prepared students to shape the future of fashion in Canada and around the world. Through creative practice, critical inquiry and collaboration, students develop the knowledge, skills and perspectives to question established practices, explore new possibilities and contribute to a more innovative, responsible and inclusive fashion system.
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.