About.

I'm a fashion scholar but it took me a while to get here. I grew up watching cloudy skies in the western district of Victoria, Australia. Or I was reading; always reading. After primary school, we moved to Brisbane for sunny suburbia. I completed the first of my two undergraduate degrees, Business Communication at QUT. Study was punctuated by two years as a youth worker, at a boarding school in rural NSW and then on the Sunshine Coast.

An undergraduate degree in Fashion Merchandising and Product Development at RMIT was followed by a position at Myer as the design coordinator for youth brands. I left for an internship in London with WGSN, a relationship that continued through freelance work once I returned to Australia. I joined Modisto, a wholesaler with numerous Australian clients, as a trend forecaster, delivering womenswear, menswear, and childrenswear forecasts and product development across multiple categories. The relentless trend cycle prompted a move to New York for the Masters in Fashion Studies program at Parsons School of Design. It was a privilege to join a diverse community in critically engaging with the many questions entangled with how and why we dress the way we do.

My general research interests include the significance of everyday clothing, the public and private practices of dress, memory and clothing, and the performances and embodiment of fashion and dress. My doctoral thesis explores the sensory experience of fashion, seeking to go beyond the characterisation of the dressed body as being primarily visual.