Kit Neale

Biography

Kit Neale is a designer, researcher, and lecturer whose practice sits at the intersection of fashion design, print, visual narrative and creative pedagogy.

Drawing on over two decades of professional experience across fashion practice, design research, and higher education, Kit’s work explores how imagination, eccentricity and cultural storytelling can transform everyday approaches to fashion and the body image.

As Pathway Leader for BA Fashion Design: Print at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Kit leads a dynamic curriculum that champions curiosity, experimentation and critical enquiry. His teaching ethos champions bold thinking, alternative perspectives, resilience through failure, and creative risk — encouraging students to develop work that is both conceptually rigorous, visually compelling and transgressive.

Kit’s research sits within a broad cultural context that embraces craftsmanship, cultural narratives and identity within fashion systems.

His interests include:
- the idiosyncratic, playful and surreal in fashion and textile design
- intersections between popular culture and material expression
- and speculative futures for fashion and print in interdisciplinary creative practice.

In addition to his academic role, Kit has an extensive professional background in fashion design and consultancy, having established and led his own label internationally and collaborated with a range of cultural and commercial partners. This practice-led perspective informs his research and teaching, helping bridge industry insight with academic enquiry.