Dr Charlotte Brachtendorf is a fashion and media scholar with an interest in digital fashion cultures and the medialities of fashion.

Her research focuses on media-philosophical, posthumanist and new materialist perspectives on fashion and technology. In her writing, Charlotte investigates how fashion materialises across various media formats and how fashion itself is mediatic. She completed her PhD on the materiality of digital fashion at the Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2025. Prior to her PhD, Charlotte graduated from the MA in Fashion Critical Studies at Central Saint Martins UAL and the MA in Media Cultural Research at the University of Freiburg.

She is a postdoctoral researcher at the professorship for cultural studies in fashion and textiles at Paderborn University, where she teaches classes on fashion theory, fashion & media and academic writing.

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