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Sam Hudson-Miles

Course Director

Sam Hudson-Miles is a senior academic and PhD student working in the field of fashion and textiles.

After completing an MA in Fashion at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art during the early 1990's, Sam launched her eponymous label alongside a CMT (Cut, Make, Trim) facility for small UK-based production runs, usually for emergent independent designers. In the year 2000, she embarked on her teaching career as a fashion educator, teaching on, and leading, several undergraduate fashion design programmes. Throughout her academic career, she has developed a number of new programmes, her most recent being a BA (Hons) Sustainable Fashion.

Sam's PhD research draws upon insights from material culture scholarship to the analysis of vintage garments sourced from local charity shops and flea markets in the West Riding of Yorkshire, over a thirty-year period. Her research methodologies are developing an original theory of soul shopping, with the intention to contribute to post-growth attitudes toward fashion consumption, broadly addressing ‘usership’ of clothing as a relational lifestyle within the context of the circular economy.

Current Teaching

BA (Hons) Fashion Design with a focus on final year
MA Fashion

Research Interests

0113 812 0000
S.L.Hudson-Miles@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Broadcasting Place, City Campus

Leeds School of Arts

Ask Me About

Design
Education
Leadership
Project management
Recycling
Spirituality
Sustainability

Selected Outputs

Hudson-Miles S (2022) THAT dress: soul-shopping as a ‘maker’s methodology’ for post-growth fashion design practice. In: WSA Sustainability Forum, 9 March 2022, Winchester School of Art, UK.
Hudson-Miles S (2020) Reconnecting practice: pedagogies of fashion thinking. In: The Sustainable Apparel & Textiles (SAT) in the Circular Economy Online Symposium, The University of Huddersfield.

Hudson-Miles S (2021) Soul-Shopping: Autoethnography, Upcycling, and Post-Growth Fashion.
Hudson-Miles S (2019) Re-wiring Practice: A Conscious Pedagogy.

Hudson-Miles S MY PERFECT PIECE: Sharing Stories about Loved Clothes LEEDS ARTS UNIVERSITY. 1 July 2014.
Hudson-Miles S 'I Am': Fantasy and the Creating of Identities through Dressing-Up Leeds City Art Gallery. 1 April 2014 - 1 May 2014.

Hudson-Miles S; Ekardt K (2021) The Way We Wear.
Roebuck J (2021) ONE PLANET FASHION: PODCAST.

Hudson-Miles S (In press) Pre-loved to re-loved: soul-shopping the second-hand wedding dress.

Hudson-Miles S (2018) Mind the Fashion Gap.
Hudson-Miles S (2016) Revolution Fashion Artisan.

Hudson-Miles S; Hudson-Miles R (2024) Bricolage in fashion and textile subcultures. In: Jefferies J; Richmond V ed. Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles. Bloomsbury,

Storey H; Harrison L; McIntosh A; Jones C. (2015) THE TRANSFER PROJECT: Fashion Conscious or Fashion Compulsive?. 1 February 2015. Trinity Shopping Centre, Leeds, UK: Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, UAL the University of Sheffield (UoS) and funded by the ESRC..

http://www.antiformonline.co.uk/bringing-the-factory-floor-to-your-door-a-pop-up-t-shirt-factory/

Earley R (2023) CHARIOCITY: How Can Design Education Help To Revive The Charity Shop Sector, Post Covid-19? [Online]. Centre for Circular Design.

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