CRITICAL
FASHION THINKING II*
with Julia Kovadloff
26 November 2026 ➔ Online, 6:30PM CET ➔ €40
THE WORKSHOP
This session connects the visual with the conceptual and social, and explores the whys and hows behind design and consumer decisions. Questions and critical exchanges are held throughout,
and guiding questions are suggested for further reflection.
THE DETAILS*
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A new and constructive approach on fashion, from garments to styling references
How to synthesise those references into your own design thinking
Theory from the ground up, and how this reinforces or resists dominant narratives
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This workshop is for designers, creatives, and anyone interested in fashion as a cultural language. It works whether you design garments, produce images, write about fashion, or engage with it as a consumer. No prior knowledge of fashion theory is necessary
Why the Boring Workshops?
These aren’t pre-recorded courses. They’re live online workshops with professional instructors and creatives where you can ask questions, receive feedback, get personal guidance, and interact with peers in real time.
Recordings are made available after the session so you can rewatch and follow at your own pace.
Julia Kovadloff is a fashion creative, researcher, writer and lecturer. A curious explorer, with an antenna tuned to aesthetics, gestures, and cultural shifts.
Her journey blends more than ten years of fashion image, art, research, and teaching, always through a holistic lens that bridges the visual with the conceptual and social observation.
She passionate about connecting the dots and understanding the whys and hows behind human decisions, integrating creative practice with critical thinking.
Meet Julia
Tools for a More Critical Fashion Practice
The Workshop
Fashion is more than just an industry, it is a cultural system shaped by images, narratives, power structures and the everyday choices we make as creators and consumers. This workshop invites you to slow down from the digital overload, observe, and question the aesthetic, social and material forces that define what fashion is and what it could be, and the relationship we have with clothes.
The Details
The workshop is aimed at designers, creatives, and anyone interested in fashion as a cultural language. Together, we will use key frameworks from fashion studies, sociology of design and contemporary critical thought to examine how beauty ideals are constructed, how consumption patterns take shape and how design and creative decisions can reinforce or resist dominant narratives.
Through accessible examples, short exercises and guided reflection, you will learn practical tools to develop a more intentional and critical fashion practice, whether you are designing garments, producing images, writing about fashion or simply engaging with fashion as a consumer. We will look at fashion as a socially situated practice, exploring its symbolic power, its capacity for storytelling and its role in shaping ideas and identities.
By the end of the workshop, you will leave with a refreshed perspective on the fashion problematics and amazing creative references to explore. This is not a lecture about what is “right” or “wrong” in fashion. It is an opportunity to expand your curiosity, sharpen your critical gaze, and imagine together new possibilities for making and engaging with fashion today.
Dates:
26th November 2026. 6:30PM. CET.
Duration approx. 90 minutes.
Online.