Program Coordinator
Tamara Leacock is a fashion designer, educator, and textile artist working at the intersection of sustainability, cultural identity, and world-building. She is the Founder and Creative Director of REMUSE, a Naarm-based Afro-Futurist fashion label grounded in biomimicry, reclaimed materials, and gender-fluid design. Drawing inspiration from figures such as Sun Ra, Alexander McQueen, Martin Margiela, and Xuly Bët, her practice merges political storytelling, material innovation, and community resonance.
Originally beginning her career in New York as a commercial stylist across music and fashion industries, Tamara later relocated to Naarm, where she expanded into textile art, sustainable fashion production, and natural dye facilitation. Her work centres ethical sourcing, workers’ rights, and circular design systems, positioning fashion as both self-presentation and social commentary. Through REMUSE and her teaching, she explores how embodied, embedded, and encultured knowledge shape contemporary sustainable fashion practice.
As Program Coordinator and Lecturer of Fashion & Sustainability at Collarts, Tamara teaches Fashion Design: Function, Fashion Design: Futures, and Resourcing & Remaking. Her teaching philosophy treats students as collaborative peers within a structured, critically engaged studio environment. She balances foundational technical rigour with productive ambiguity, encouraging risk-taking, inclusivity, and ethical accountability. Students leave her classroom with strengthened material literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to build culturally resonant, industry-ready practices grounded in sustainability and innovation.
Email: tleacock@collarts.edu.au