Alberto Atalla Filho

Biography

Alberto Atalla Filho is Associate Lecturer at UAL. He has over 35 years of experience working in the fashion industry in creative and technical roles, as well as lecturing and teaching in Brazil and the UK. He holds a BA in Fashion Business with specialisation in Fashion Design from the Anhembi Morumbi University in São Paulo-Brazil, and a Masters degree in Pattern and Garment Technology from the UAL, London College of Fashion, where he is completing a practice-based PhD in Cultural and Historical Studies. He has collaborated with The Underpinnings Museum co-curating the exhibition ‘Remaking the Past’ and taught numerous fashion certificate courses. His research interests focus on gender, fashion history, material culture, embodied research as process of knowing and re-making as methodology.