Dr Eve Lin

Biography

Dr Yu-Lun Eve Lin (They/Them) is a fashion researcher, educator, and multi-disciplinary designer whose work interrogates the complex and often invisible power structures embedded within international fashion education and the global fashion industry. Their practice is situated at the intersection of autoethnography, critical pedagogy, decolonial theory, and fashion design, through which they examine how symbolic violence and institutional authority shape the production of knowledge and design cultures. Eve is currently based at London College of Fashion, where they contribute to the development of fashion education through both practice and research. They are a Centre Associate of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) and a fellow of the Decolonising the Arts Institute.
Their work draws on lived experience, storytelling, and reflective practice as critical tools to advocate for equity, pluralism, and care within fashion education. Rather than seeking to challenge dominant narratives directly, they cultivate spaces for critical reflection and dialogic engagement, encouraging more inclusive and compassionate ways of learning and knowing in the field of fashion practice. Their doctoral research investigated the socio-political entanglements between fashion education and industry, particularly through the lens of power imbalance. They critically explored how educational systems can either sustain or disrupt hegemonic ideologies within fashion, and proposed alternative pedagogies grounded in care, justice, and multiplicity.
Eve brings extensive international experience to their academic and professional practice, having worked across the UK, Taiwan, the US, and China. They trained in fashion design womenswear at Central Saint Martins, earning both their BA and MA between 2004 and 2009. Their early design work was recognised with multiple accolades, including being named ELLE Taiwan's NewGen Designer in 2011, 2013, and 2014, and receiving Red Dot Design Awards in 2014 (for publication) and 2018 (for educational innovation) for their illustration-based projects.
In 2024, Eve was named one of three global winners of the Go Green with Taiwan Award, an initiative endorsed by Taiwan’s International Trade Administration and executed by TAITRA. Selected from 396 proposals submitted across 45 countries, Eve’s winning proposal,“Digital Fashion: Transforming Fashion for a Sustainable Future”, was recognised for its innovation in using digital fashion to support global environmental goals. The award highlights Eve’s continued commitment to sustainable, cross-cultural innovation in fashion practice. In parallel to their academic research, Eve maintains an active design and consultancy practice. They have served as a design consultant for TEXMA Corp., one of Asia’s leading textile manufacturers, and have taught in a range of educational contexts. Their teaching experience spans institutions such as Shih Chien University in Taipei (fashion design), the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York (autoethnographic research methods), and the Royal College of Art (Play and design thinking).
Eve is the author of Practice of Fashion Drawing, a nationally adopted textbook widely used across vocational fashion programmes in Taiwan. Their writing regularly contributes to conversations in art and design, including as a resident columnist for CACAO, an online platform dedicated to design discourse. Recent and forthcoming publications continue to explore key themes in cultural practice, decolonisation, and environmental justice within fashion education. These include the co-edited volume Forming Fashion Futures: A Research Companion – Pedagogies, Communities, Technologies and Ethics (Routledge, forthcoming 2026), developed in collaboration with Bethan Alexander, Flavia Loscialpo, and Kelly Dearsley. In 2024, Eve contributed a chapter titled “An Autoethnographic Narrative of Chinese Students' Quietness” to the Routledge volume The Future of Fashion Education: Speculation, Experience and Collaboration. In 2023, they published Revision: An Autoethnography Study Toolkit as part of the UAL Educational Enhancement Sabbatical programme. That same year, Eve presented A Mother's Guide to Love, a film with sound in collaboration with Portal:M, which exhibited at Collective Care at London College of Fashion. These works collectively reflect Eve’s ongoing commitment to research that is grounded in care, creativity, and critical reflection, and that seeks to reimagine fashion education through inclusive and pluralistic lenses.
Their work continues to advocate for transformative approaches to fashion education, ones rooted in lived experience, critical reflection, and collective care.