About
Matthew Coats is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Fashion Design at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. His academic practice is shaped by a decade of industry experience, including his time as a designer at Chanel in Paris under Karl Lagerfeld.
His professional background spans luxury fashion houses, start-up brands, and modelling agencies, alongside teaching roles at the University of Brighton, London College of Fashion, and Birmingham City University. This diverse trajectory informs his critical and practice-based approach to fashion education.
Matthew’s current research and teaching interests include material intelligence, narrative fashion, surface design, and circular design systems.