Brooke Garner

Brooke Garner is an Assistant Professor in the Fashion Design department at Pratt Institute, where her teaching and research center on garment repair, reworking, collaborative craft, and patternmaking as critical design practices. Her research and creative practice examine mending as a feminist and maternal act of resistance to extractive fashion systems, approaching repairative practices as a means of exploring embodied knowledge. Through collaborative research-based projects, she explores how garments function as vessels of memory, holding lived experiences, and how tending to these garments can serve as a methodology for relational care and intergenerational collaboration. 

Garner also develops her creative practice through Mor, where she reworks vintage and deadstock textiles into small collections of garments. Garner maintains an active professional practice as a freelance patternmaker for brands including Khaite, Prabal Gurung, Mara Hoffman, and Puppets & Puppets. Prior to working independently, she served as an in-house runway development patternmaker at The Row. Before joining the full-time faculty at Pratt Institute in 2023, she taught at Parsons School of Design.