Dr. Laura Gardner
Details
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College: Fashion & Textiles
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Department: Fashion & Textiles
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Campus: Brunswick Australia
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laura.gardner@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-4745-7791
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
- Media enquiries
About
LAURA GARDNER is an academic and practitioner in the field of fashion communication and media. Her research and project focus on the histories, politics and practices of experimental fashion publishing. This includes a book she is currently working on, Marginal Fashion Publishing: Tactics, Practices and Market Forces (Bloomsbury, 2025), which surveys alternative publishing in fashion since the 1990s. She is also co-editor of Radical Fashion Exercises: a workbook of modes and methods, with Dr Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran and published by Valiz, founder of the small-press imprint Mode and Mode and works as a freelance editor, writer and curator.
Teaching interests
Fashion writing and text, fashion media, printed matter, experimental publishing, publishing practice, practice-led research, fashion archives.
Research interests
Fashion writing and text, fashion media, printed matter, experimental publishing, publishing practice, practice-led research, fashion archives.
