Deidra Arrington
is a fashion professional with twenty years’ experience as an apparel buyer and Vice President/Divisional Merchandise Manager. Deidra joined the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004. She earned a BSc in Business Administration at Jacksonville State University and an mba at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Claire Eldred
is an independent scholar based in Cornwall, U.K. She is working on a book focussed on Elsa Schiaparelli’s Lobster Dress; her wider research interests include object biography, fashion and surrealism, and the contemporary curation of fashion in museums/art galleries.
Jacque Lynn Foltyn
PhD, Professor of Sociology, National University, La Jolla, California, is a cultural critic, social theorist, and media expert across the fields of death, popular culture, and fashion. She founded and led the Oxford University-based conference, Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues, from 2009–2016 and was founding editor-in-chief of Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style. Editor of Crafting Allure: Beauty: Culture, and Identity; Fashions: Exploring Fashions through Cultures; and Fashion-Wise (with Maria Vaccarella), she has appeared on nbc Today, cnn, cbs 48 Hours, bbc, npr; and been interviewed by nyt.
Antonia Glücksman
is a ktp Associate at Falmouth University. She leads and coordinates a partnership between industry and academia, where she works on the interface of fashion design, clothing technology, and supply chain management. Her current role, which also involves teaching, builds upon substantial experience within the global fashion industry. She holds a degree from esmod Berlin International University of Art for Fashion and an ma from Falmouth University.
Charlotte J. Headrick
PhD, Professor Emerita of Theatre Arts at Oregon State University, is a recipient of the Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award for Undergraduate Teaching, the cla Excellence Award, and the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival Kennedy Medallion for her service to the Northwest
Hilde Heim
is a former fashion designer and entrepreneur. After working as a graphic designer in elite international fashion magazines (Vogue, Elle, and Le Figaro), she also successfully launched a bespoke studio in Dresden, Germany and later founded a national wholesale and retail brand in Australia. After exiting several decades of small business activities, Heim reskilled in academia. Now a mentor and educator, holding a PhD in Creative Industries from the Queensland University of Technology, Heim is continuing to research innovative fashion business models and the adoption by small-scale enterprises of emerging technologies for sustainability.
Patricia Hunt-Hurst
PhD, Janette McGarity Barber Professor and Associate Dean for the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia, is a dress historian, teaching dress and fashion history for over 30 years. Her research has focussed on African-American dress in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, African influence on dress, and the transition toward immodesty in women’s dress in the twentieth century. Her research is published in Dress, The Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, and the Georgia Historical Quarterly. She currently serves as the national secretary for the Costume Society of America.
Leonardo Iuffrida
MA, is an art historian specialized in fashion and photography. He is the author of ‘Steven Klein. Lo sguardo provocante della fotografia di moda,’ in Obiettivo Moda. Incursioni nella Fotografia di Moda Contemporanea (Bononia University Press); ‘Neo-pop and Fashion at the Dawn of the New Millennium,’ in Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Loves Elio Fiorucci. Art and Fashion from Pop to Neo-pop (Silvana Editoriale); ‘Men’s Knitwear. Stories of an Unconventional Classic,’ in Maglifico! Sublime Italian Knitscape – 50 Years of Extraordinary Made in Italy Knitwear (Skira); and Il Nudo Maschile nella Fotografia e nella Moda (Odoya).
Banhi Jha
is Senior Professor of Fashion Design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi. A Fashion Design graduate from Fashion Institute of
Katrín María Káradóttir
Diplôme en Stylisme de Mode, Associate Professor, Director of Fashion Studies at the Iceland University of the Arts, is a slow fashion pioneer in Iceland and won the Indriði Award in 2013, awarded by the Icelandic Association of Fashion Designers for quality and excellence. She is interested in building new, innovative systems focussed on sustainability and low environmental impact, thinking about the origins and endpoints of textiles, and has brought these to the forefront of fashion education in Iceland. She is a partner of the consortium EU Horizon 2020-msca-rise FISHSkin 823943. FISHSkin as a Sustainable Raw Material.
Tets Kimura
Research Associate in Creative Arts at Flinders University, Australia, teaches International Relations and Creative Arts. He holds a PhD in International Relations and has received research grants, awards, and scholarships from governmental and academic organisations of eight countries including Australia and Japan. His recent publications in fashion studies include ‘Cool Japan: Fashion as a Vehicle of Soft Power,’ in Transglobal Fashion Narratives (Bristol: Intellect, 2018), and ‘Creation of Contemporary Taiwanese Fashion,’ in Fashion Practice 9(3) (2017). His first book Exporting Japanese Aesthetics: Evolution from Tradition to Cool Japan (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press) was published in 2020.
Leonard R. Koos
PhD, is the Waple Professor of French at the University of Mary Washington in the U.S. As a cultural historian specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, he has published extensively on varied topics like literary decadence, French colonialism, Modernist theatre, and New Wave cinema. He is the co-editor of Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice (Albany: suny Press, 2002) and the editor of Hidden Cities: Urban Pop Cultures (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012). His recent publications have focussed on the intersection of fashion and politics with articles on the Second Empire crinoline and cravat manuals of the 1820s.
PhD, lectures at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. A historian with previously published work in Egyptology, counterfactual history, eighteenth-century intellectual history, and 1960s studies, Langkjær researches and publishes internationally in fashion and costume history, specializing in Anglo-American rock-performer and youth styles. From 2011–2013, Langkjær was Reviews Editor of Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style. He co-edited Images in Time (Bath: Wunderkammer Press, 2011) and a special issue of Fashion Practice on sportswear and textiles (8:2, 2016). His recent work is on the creative practice and personal style of Karl Lagerfeld.
Erika Lunding
is a writer and independent scholar with an ma in Fashion Studies and a ba in General and Comparative Literature, Stockholm University. A former research librarian at Kungliga biblioteket/National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Lunding is a member of pca/aca, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and a Member and Independent Scholar Representative of the International Girls’ Studies Association (igsa). Her research focusses on fashion and the modelling profession as portrayed in girls’ series books.
Sarah Mole
MPhil, Sociology (Modern Society and Global Transformations) at the University of Cambridge. She went on to perform further research investigating the contemporary relationship between British street-style and the fashion industry. Her chapter ‘Fashion and Street Style Blogs: The New Hierarchies Arising within the British Fashion System’ is included in Laura Petican (ed.) Fashion and Contemporaneity: Realms of the Visible (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
Noly Moyssi
holds a Doctorate in Traditional and Contemporary Culture from the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus. She was awarded an ma in Literature, Museum, and Gallery Studies by the Department of History of Art, University of St. Andrews, U.K. Before that, she had received her Degree in Archaeology and History of Art from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her research focusses mainly on traditional Cypriot dress; she is an Affiliate Researcher at the Cyprus Institute and supplies Dioptra: The Digital Library for Cypriot Culture with research on the island’s clothing.
teaches design research, design methods, and pattern design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi. She completed her PhD in Sociology from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in the field of fashion and everyday life in urban India. Her research interests include fashion practices, identity, and popular culture.
Elisa Palomino
MA, designer, researcher, and fashion educator, has twenty-five years’ experience in the fashion luxury industry, designing for John Galliano, Christian Dior, Roberto Cavalli, Moschino, Diane von Furstenberg, and creating her own brand. Palomino directs the Fashion Print department at Central Saint Martins, U.K., pioneering the adoption of sustainable practices. She has run successful projects (EU Horizon 2020-msca-rise: FISHSkin as a Sustainable Raw Material; eu cosme worth project: Fish Leather in the Luxury Industry) and is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Award: ‘Arctic Fish Skin Clothing Traditions,’ Smithsonian Institute. Her expertise is centred in sustainable fashion, material innovation, intangible cultural heritage, and fish leather.
Laura Petican
is Associate Professor and Director of University Galleries at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Her research is centred in contemporary Italian art and fashion studies. She received her ba Honours in Visual Arts and ma in Art History from Western University, Canada; her PhD from Jacobs University, Germany; and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is editor of Fashion and Contemporaneity: Realms of the Visible (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019), co-editor of In Fashion: Fashioning Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity, and was Exhibitions Reviews Editor for Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style.
Clare Rose
PhD, is a dress historian and independent scholar who has published extensively on the history of the clothing industry. Her research into archives of early clothing manufacturing and retailing documents was published in Clare Rose and Vivienne Richmond (eds.), Clothing, Society and Culture (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011). Her most recent book is Art Nouveau Fashion (London: V&A Publishing, 2014). She has taught Fashion Theory in universities for 25 years, specialising in eco and ethical issues, and has curated textile exhibitions for the Women’s Library, London and State Museums, Berlin. She lectures on fashion at the V&A Museum.
is senior lecturer and higher degree research coordinator in the School of Fashion and Textiles at rmit University. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Melbourne. He publishes both on contemporary European philosophy, particularly on the thought of Martin Heidegger, as well as on issues in fashion theory, particularly those to do with the philosophy of fashion and philosophy’s relationship to fashion.
Cecilia Winterhalter
is a historian and fashion sociologist whose research focusses on social change and the formation of identities through fashion, trends, consumption, innovative products, food, and religion. Since earning her doctorate at the European University Institute, Florence, she has held posts in the luxury sector and lectured at London College of Fashion and luiss University, Rome. Currently, she teaches at Accademia Costume & Moda, Rome. She served on the Steering Committee of the Global Conference: Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues, held annually at Oxford University and the Editorial Board of Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style.