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Luxury as labour: co-creating with cloth in the fashion studio

Luxury as labour: co-creating with cloth in the fashion studio
Luxury as labour: co-creating with cloth in the fashion studio
Formerly a designer at Chanel, my research explores fabric-led pedagogy, ethical studio practice, and the systemic conditions that shape creative labour. This work investigates how slowness, co-authorship, and material engagement can redefine luxury and reorient fashion education. Luxury is reframed not as an aesthetic outcome, but as a situated mode of co-creation between fabric, maker, and method.
Fundació Historia del Disseny
Coats, Matthew
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Ventosa Muñoz, Sílvia
Coats, Matthew
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Ventosa Muñoz, Sílvia

Coats, Matthew (2025) Luxury as labour: co-creating with cloth in the fashion studio. In, Ventosa Muñoz, Sílvia (ed.) El Lujo. Moda y Tejidos a lo Largo de la Historia. Fundació Historia del Disseny.

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Formerly a designer at Chanel, my research explores fabric-led pedagogy, ethical studio practice, and the systemic conditions that shape creative labour. This work investigates how slowness, co-authorship, and material engagement can redefine luxury and reorient fashion education. Luxury is reframed not as an aesthetic outcome, but as a situated mode of co-creation between fabric, maker, and method.

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Published date: 6 November 2025

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Local EPrints ID: 507577
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/507577
PURE UUID: a4d4514c-3b29-4175-9716-d02b8c6463c6
ORCID for Matthew Coats: ORCID iD orcid.org/0009-0000-4730-1722

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Date deposited: 12 Dec 2025 17:45
Last modified: 13 Dec 2025 03:05

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Author: Matthew Coats ORCID iD
Editor: Sílvia Ventosa Muñoz

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