Primary Educator Creative Director: jKf

TEACHING

2025 - 20++ RED Fashion School. Connecticut - Assistant Director

2025 - 20++ New England Fashion Design Association. Connecticut - Assistant Director

2024 - 20++ RED Fashion School. Connecticut - Professor

2024 - 20++ New England Fashion Design Association. Connecticut - Professor

2021 – 20++ IGNORE THIS BOX, EDU, Global - Primary Educator and Creative Director

8/2015 – 10/2021 THE FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, New York. - Professor (Tenured) and Chair MFA Fashion Design

7/2009 – 7/2015 PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, New York. - Associate Professor of Studio Methods 

8/2007 – 8/2009 ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY, San Francisco, California. - Fashion Design Instructor 

1/2006 – 8/2007 SCAD: SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, Savannah, Georgia. - Fashion Instructor 

1/2004 – 12/2005 UEL: UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON, London. - Fashion Design Lecturer

CONSULTANCY

2-6/2022 - Stop the BUG in ME! - Project your Message - CRIW-CELF – Bridgend, South Wales

1/2016 - EXPERIENCE, IDEA, PLAY, FOCUS, EDIT, CONCLUDE - The Pakistan Institute of Fashion Design – Lahore

7/2013 – 7/2015 - BFA Fashion Design Coordinator - ISDI - Indian School of Design and Innovation - Mumbai

10/2013  - Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1/2012 - Prada and Schiaparelli -The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1/2011 - Alexander McQueen ‘Savage Beauty” - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

There’s an unresolved question about fashion’s place in the world of art and design; where it belongs, exactly, along the continuum of creative and pragmatic practices that shape our material world. While fashion emerged in the 20th century as big business, and continues along this path into the now, the seed of its commerce necessarily remains creative, its lifeblood relying upon the breadth and depth with which a designer can explore new ideas. This is in conflict, however, with the prevailing attitude in today’s fashion industry, which largely accepts fashion to be nothing more than a vocational discipline that only generates clothes to wear.

"A necessary aspect of fashion is its constant evolution, but the system of fashion has developed at odds with this goal, asking designers to produce original work through the narrow range of standardized formats. This is no way to encourage innovation and does not represent the human truths of fashion, the fundamental exploration of relationships with self, others and the world. To me, the heart of fashion design is the study of what it means to be human.

To understand fashion in this manner, it’s necessary to deconstruct and reconsider the assumption from which the foundation of modern fashion design arises. Namely, that fashion is about making clothes. It’s not! Rather, clothing is the by-product of creating fashion, and fashion is the embodiment of curiosity about the human condition.

In my career as a designer and educator it has become increasingly important to me to be able to open a window on the broader view of fashion by encouraging people to think for themselves and question the excepted. New ideas emerge by venturing forth into the unknown, and new ways of approaching fashion in both pedagogy and industry are necessary to create positive future outcomes" say's Farmer. 

~Kira Craft