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Dr. Tanveer Ahmed is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Race at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where they work across the fashion program to develop decolonial fashion perspectives. With over twenty years of teaching experience in fashion design, Ahmed brings a practice-led research approach to examining how Eurocentric racial hierarchies operate within fashion design processes and pedagogies.
As an anti-racist educator and researcher, Ahmed's work emphasizes situated, relational, and contextualized fashion design praxis that centers plural, non-heteropatriarchal, and non-capitalist forms of fashion inspired by pre-colonial concepts. Their research emerges from recognizing the urgent need to develop alternative non-extractive, social justice-oriented forms of fashion design education that respect our planet and multi-species ecosystems.
AHRC-funded PhD research titled 'Pluriversal Fashions: Towards an Anti-Racist Fashion Design Pedagogy' investigated how white normativity excludes non-Eurocentric fashion design epistemologies and developed decolonial feminist pedagogical frameworks to counter dominant dualist definitions of fashion design. Ahmed is currently working on a forthcoming monograph 'Fashion and Anti-Racism' (Bloomsbury).
Analysis of Ahmed's recent scholarly output reveals a consistent focus on dismantling colonial logic in fashion systems. Their work spans critical examinations of fashion history, pedagogical innovation, and theoretical development at the intersection of race, fashion, and education. Key themes include anti-racist fashion pedagogy, decolonial design frameworks, and the development of more inclusive fashion systems that challenge white normativity.
- AHRC funded PhD research on anti-racist fashion design
- Monograph 'Fashion and Anti-Racism' forthcoming with Bloomsbury
- Active researcher with 24 publications spanning 2018-2025
- Current AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with Victoria & Albert Museum
Ahmed's teaching and research demonstrate a commitment to transforming fashion education through everyday pedagogical practices that confront histories of harm. Their work connects with broader movements of fashion educators working toward social justice through critical intellectual traditions built upon dissent and counter-hegemonic struggles of marginalized peoples. Ahmed's community-based approaches, such as the 'Unstitched London' workshop, demonstrate practical applications of their theoretical frameworks for creating more equitable fashion systems.
