Tanveer Ahmed

Biography

Tanveer (she/her) is Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Race at Central Saint Martins and also Course Development Lead for MA Fashion and Anthropology at London College of Fashion. Her research recognises the urgent need to explore alternative justice-oriented forms of fashion design by centring plural fashion narratives inspired by anti-colonial concepts of fashion. Working in the emerging academic field of decolonial fashion has led to Tanveer writing key decolonising fashion modules in the UK at The Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins and internationally, for The American University of Paris. Tanveer has also been invited to guest lecture on decolonial design at universities in the UK, The Netherlands, Germany, France and Switzerland.

Tanveer’s publications have contributed to the growing body of literature that aims to decolonise the Eurocentric canon of fashion and recent publications have been included in International Journal of Fashion Studies, Fashion, Style & Popular Culture and Art Librarians Journal, and the books Fashion Education: The Systemic Revolution (2023) and Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies and Perspectives (2021).

Tanveer sits on the editorial board for the journals Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education and Disena, the steering group Pedagogies for Social Justice, University of Westminster and is a member of The Lethaby Gallery Advisory Group.