Sandy Black is a researcher, author and lecturer, currently Reader in Fashion Design and Technology at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, with particular interest in inter-disciplinary practice-led research and the role of des
...MoreSandy Black is a researcher, author and lecturer, currently Reader in Fashion Design and Technology at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, with particular interest in inter-disciplinary practice-led research and the role of design. She has extensive experience in both industry and education, having previously run an international knitwear business and directed Fashion and Textiles programmes at both Postgraduate and Undergraduate levels at LCF and University of Brighton.
She currently co-ordinates the Fashion Science research group at LCF and established the Interrogating Fashion network in 2005 via the recent EPSRC/AHRC Designing for the 21st Century initiative.
Sandy Black writes and lectures on the intersections of textiles, knitwear and fashion design with emerging technology, science and cultural contexts, and has a particular interest in the role of the designer for a sustainaible future. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and in public lectures and publishes in both academic and specialist press. Recent publications include: FASHIONING FABRICS: contemporary textiles in fashion, editor and author, Black Dog Publishing; KNITWEAR in FASHION, authored book, Thames and Hudson; Chapter 'Fashion and Function: factors in the development and use of protective clothing' in TEXTILES for PROTECTION, Woodhead Publishing
She has also contributed a chapter on future textiles to the forthcoming publication by Woodhead 'Smart Textiles for Medical and Healthcare'
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