Staff Profiles
Suzanne Lee
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests
Future Fashion & Emergent technologies
Current Research
My book, Fashioning The Future: tomorrow's wardrobe, published by Thames & Hudson in September 2005, is a comprehensive exploration of future fashion and new technologies. My interests centre on the creative application of new technologies to design and innovative directions for fashion.
My research practice for 2006 builds on experiments over the last year with materials scientist Dr. David Hepworth, to produce a range of Cellulose Couture - clothing grown from bacterial-cellulose.
In my capacity as Creative Director of Hamish Morrow, London I am also involved in bringing cutting edge fashion innovation to the market place. For Spring/Summer 2006 this involved working with NanoTex(r) to bring performance finishes to silk for a range of luxury sportswear.
Recent Research
2005: Guest speaker, Future Textiles Symposium, The Hub Centre, Lincolnshire, October 2005.
2005: Paper, 'Smart Future Fashion - Electronics in Tomorrow's Wardrobe', Kunststoff Trends Magazine, Plastic Electronics, Frankfurt, October 2005.
2005: Installation of Fashioning The Future: tomorrow's wardrobe, Collette, Paris., September 2005.
2005: Keynote speaker, Wearable Futures Conference, University of Wales, Newport, September 2005.
2005: Publication of Fashioning The Future: tomorrow's wardrobe, Thames & Hudson. Design and special fashion photography created in association with Warren du Preez & Nick Thornton-Jones, September 2005.
2005: Article, 'Dreaming the Body Electric', for Drapers 'Textiles for the Future' supplement, September 2005.
2005: Public lecture, ICA, Digital Studio, August 2005
2005: Month-long Exhibition, ICA, Digital Studio. Web introduction to future fashion concepts and digital film Mutation in collaboration with Warren du Preez & Nick Thornton-Jones inspired by my book Fashioning The Future, August 2005
2005: Speaker, Avantex, Frankfurt, June 2005
2005: Guest panellist, 'Wearable Computing', Cybersalon, Science Museum, The Dana Centre, London, January 2005.
2005: Guest speaker - Annual Roy Godden Lecture, The Textile Institute, The Royal College of Art, London, January 2005.
Supervision Expertise
Fashion design, digital and electronic technologies for the body
Current Research Students
Lisa Stead - 'The Emotional Wardrobe - future functions of technology in fashion'
Ulli Oberlack - 'i+e Illumination and Emanation - light as body adornment'
Ben Maron - 'Design for Future Fashion: A Synergy between Clothing and Technology'.
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