Fashion Design

About Me:

Matt Porter, is an educator and researcher with a design specialty in menswear and custom tailoring. Having presented traditional and creative scholarship nationally and abroad, his design and instructional approach maps canonical and critical theory onto strategies and processes of design and material production. Matt has worked extensively in the fashion industry in Dallas and New York in addition to having worked as a consultant for university curriculum development at various institutions and as curatorial researcher at the Texas Fashion Collection. He holds a BA in Art & Design from the University of North Texas, an MA in Fashion Studies from Parsons School of Design, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine.