- Designing for Drag (Book Chapter), Fashion Education: The Systemic Revolution. (ed. Ben Barry & Deborah Christel), Thai, Sang (2022) (forthcoming)
BP328 - Bachelor of Fashion (Design)
BP328 - Bachelor of Fashion (Design)
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
Publications
Media engagements
Awards
Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, 8:1&2, pp. 93–110
Thai, Sang (2021).
Fashion Education: The Systemic Revolution. (ed. Ben Barry & Deborah Christel)
Thai, Sang (2022).
Virgin Australian Melbourne Fashion Festival Arts Program
Thai, Sang (2020).
Current PhD project
2018 - 2024
Award date: 2018
Recipients: Sang Thai
Award date: 2019
Recipients: Sang Thai
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.