Joan Farrer

Royal College of Art, London

Joan Farrer is Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art School of Fashion and Textiles, a London Technology Network Business Fellow, AHRC Peer Reviewer and a design and strategy consultant for UK industrial fashion and supermarket retailer's non-food divisions, their home and overseas supply chains. Joan has consulted in conceptual design, R&D, trends, manufacture and retail of fibre, yarn, textiles and clothing with high profile clients from the Far East, Europe and the USA. She has undertaken strategic sustainability business reporting in the fashion and textiles sector for research institutions, NGO's, local Government, education and premier industrial clothing companies focusing on multi stakeholder dialogue, life cycle analysis and post consumer issues linked to the global fibre, textile, garment production and disposal chain. Joan has co-authored and been co-investigator on funded projects supported by EPSRC, DIFD, DEFRA, AHRB and European Commission relating to sustainability in the fashion textile sector and communication of the issues which has driven her research since the mid 1990's. Joan has and continues to teach emerging new talent at the creative cutting edge in the fashion/textile design and research sector.

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