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Brand Director, HOSOO, Kyoto Hosoo Masataka is the innovative brand director of HOSOO, a traditional kimono textile maker based in Kyoto, Japan. Hosoo aims to bring Nishijin-ori weaving techniques and textiles to the forefront of the design and fashion scenes worldwide. Popularised by the nobles of the Imperial Court of Kyoto and the samurai warrior class, Nishijin is a special yarn dyeing and weaving technique developed more than 1,200 years ago; it is mainly used for garments, such as kimonos. […]

Dean of Hybrid Design Studies, Parsons School of Design, New York Lidewij Edelkoort is arguably the world’s most famous fashion and consumer trend forecaster. Her company, Trend Union, creates trend forecasts and colours that are used by designers, business strategists, and market leaders at international consumer brands and weaving mills. Her clients cover a diverse range of consumer goods and services, from lifestyle and interiors, to textiles, food, and fashion. Edelkoort is also a publisher, humanitarian, educator and exhibition curator. […]

Co-founder and Member of Advisory Board, MUJI and Director, Towada Art Centre, Towada Born in Tokyo, Koike Kazuko graduated from the School of Literature of Waseda University. She began her writing career in the 1960s as a copywriter and fashion editor. In 1975, she coordinated the Inventive Clothes – 1909-1939 exhibition at the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art. Koike founded Japan’s first alternative art space, the SAGACHO Exhibit Space, and served as its curator from 1983-2000. Since 2011, she […]

Curator and Industrial Heritage Coordinator, Textile Museum of Sweden, Borås Johanna Engman is a curator and industrial heritage coordinator at the Textile Museum of Sweden in Borås, a town that has been defined by textiles and textile industry. In 2016, she curated the museum’s award-winning permanent exhibition Textile Power, which presented an overview of the textile industry on both local and global levels through drawing parallels between developments in Borås – from industrialisation to decline and subsequent regeneration – and […]

Head of Creative Projects and Senior Designer, Vlisco, Helmond Gabriela Sánchez y Sánchez de la Barquera (GSYSB) is a Mexican-Dutch designer. She was born and raised in Mexico City, and is a graduate of The Design Academy, Eindhoven. GSYSB works as a Senior Print Designer at Vlisco in The Netherlands, creating storytelling projects through textiles and drawings. Since 2017, she has been Head of Creative Projects at Vlisco, and also leads Vlisco&co. Vlisco&co is a collaborative initiative between the Vlisco […]

Errol van de Werdt was until recently director of the TextielMuseum & TextielLab and the Mommerskwartier Foundation in Tilburg, the Netherlands. He is working internationally as an independent curator, critic and consultant. He was educated in museology (BA) (Leiden), art history and archeology (drs. MA) (Amsterdam) and People Management (BA) (Zwolle). Currently he is attending the Dutch Academy for Diplomatic Practice in International Relations at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague. Errol van de Werdt is interested in crossovers between […]

Executive Director and Curator, Para Site, Hong Kong Born in 1982 in Romania, Cosmin Costinas has been the Executive Director and Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong since 2011. He was Guest Curator at the Dakar Biennale 2018, La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain, DAK’ART (2018), Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit 18’ (2018), Co-curator of the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), Curator of BAK-basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2008-2011), Co-curator of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg (2010), and Editor […]

Founder, The Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Women, Vientiane Chanthasone Inthavong is the founder of The Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Women in Vientiane, Laos. Established in 1998, it aims to empower rural women by offering them training in weaving, natural dyeing, tailoring, and also aims to revive the traditional crafts of Laos. She has been involved in various exhibitions of Laotian textiles across the world, including in Tokyo (1992), and Yokohama (multiple times), Japan, in Seoul, South […]

Director, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne Antonia Syme is the Director of the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1976, the ATW has an international reputation as a world leader in the creation of contemporary hand-woven tapestries. The ATW occupies a unique position within Australia’s artistic landscape as the only workshop of its kind in the country, and one of only a handful in the world. The ATW has produced more than 500 tapestries, many of which can […]