Sang Thai

Designer, lecturer and creative practice researcher with an interest in masculinity, intersectionality, and inclusive fashion design practices for social change.

Sang Thai (he/him) is a designer, lecturer, and creative practice researcher at RMIT School of Fashion Textiles. He holds degrees in both Architecture (The University of Melbourne) and Fashion Design (RMIT University) and has extensive industry design experience in Melbourne, Sydney, and New York. Sang is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University with an interest in masculinity, intersectionality, andinclusive fashion design practices for social change. His doctoral project explores the use of the t-shirt to embody and express the diasporic Asian experience in Australia.

Sang is a lecturer in the Bachelor of Fashion (Design) program at RMIT University, leading pedagogy in Diversity and Inclusion and mentors students in preparation for the industry through studio learning, curriculum development, course coordination, WIL (work integrated learning)/Partner Projects and International study tours.

Sang coordinates and leads WIL (work integrated learning) and Partnered Projects courses in the Fashion and Textiles Design discipline through negotiating, developing, and integrating partnered outcomes into design studio curriculum. This includes the development and alignment of project briefs to deliver the course and program learning outcomes.

Project partners have included: Disney, ACMI, Melbourne and Olympic Park Trust (MOPT), MERGE: M-Pavillion x Open House Melbourne x Melbourne Music Week, Arnsdorf, Australian Grand Prix Corporation, Yellowglen, Vic Police among others.

Head Designer/Senior Designer - Brand Collective

Designer - MARCS (M Webster Holdings)

Menswear Designer - PAUL FRANK (Globe International)

Sang has an interest in masculinity, intersectionality, and inclusive fashion design practices for social change. He is particularly interested in creative practices that challenge and disrupt hegemonic subjectivities that contribute to marginalisation in fashion. Drawing from auto-ethnography, his work explores how intersectional experiences of fashion and dress can produce material outcomes that challenge the discrimination and oppression associated with the compounding conditions of race and sexuality.

Practice: www.yellowishfever.com

Inclusive Fashion Design Practice, Intersectionality, Gender, Masculinity, Asian Diaspora, Critical Practice, Creative Practice Research

• Socially inclusive and diverse fashion practices
• Critical fashion practice
• Decolonization
• Gender and identity
• Performativity
• Masculinity
• Intersectionality