Fashion inside out: sharing academic production to transform realities

Abstract

The objective of this article is to demonstrate how it is possible to articulate theory and practice in the scope of fashion education, extrapolating educational institutions walls. For this, addresses the planning, execution and results of the Extension Project entitled Fashion Inside Out, which was idealised to present the results of the master’s degree research of a lecturer of the Federal Education system to the Zé Doca community (Maranhão). It culminates bringing out the social return of the school that encourages and disseminates the research, in addition to promote important reflections in the contemporaneity involving sustainable practices and questioning the role of agents involved in consumer relations – designers and consumers.