Fashion education can be lived and experienced outside the classroom involving the community as a whole when digital technologies are at its service. The objective of this work is to broaden the understanding of the new role universities are assuming in the field of fashion online learning. The phenomenon of global fashion research using the Internet is analyzed through the initiative of Anhembi Morumbi University, whose fashion faculty is located in São Paulo, Brazil, but extended its activities to the whole country using the WWW as a tool. Online extension courses in fashion and communication, as well as the production of digital magazine Moda Brasil (Fashion Brazil), led to the creation of a virtual community focused on fashion issues and its relations with society, consumption, industry and academic research. |