Creative Advisory Council

The Creative Advisory Council is a permanent instrument that monitors and provides input on artistic quality. She provides solicited and unsolicited advice on the artistic interpretation and development of State of Fashion.


Members


Akanksha Kamath

Akanksha Kamath is a London-based independent journalist and content consultant. Her bylines include British Vogue, South China Morning Post, Vogue Business, and The Business of Fashion, among others.

Christina H. Moon

Christina H. Moon is an Associate Professor of Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design, The New School. Her research looks at the social ties and cultural encounters between design worlds and manufacturing landscapes across Asia and the Americas.

Samata Pattinson

Samata Pattinson is a British-born Ghanaian entrepreneur and CEO of BLACK PEARL, a consulting firm focused on cultural sustainability. Passionate about connecting communities and the planet, she drove initiatives like Red Carpet Green Dress (RCGD), bringing sustainable fashion to the Oscars

Hanayrá Negreiros

Hanayrá Negreiros is a Brazilian fashion curator and scholar whose research weaves together the intersections of history, fashion, and visual arts, with a focus on the histories of dress of the African diaspora in Brazil. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in History at PUC-SP and has taken on various roles throughout her career, including as a columnist for ELLE Brazil (2020-21).

Sunny Dolat

Sunny Dolat is a fashion curator, creative director, and producer of international arts and culture projects. The multi-hyphenate Kenyan was a key member of the curatorial team behind the landmark “Africa Fashion” exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), held between 2022-2023 in London, led by Dr Christine Checinska.

Kallol Datta

Kallol Datta is a clothes maker and researcher. A cornerstone of their work is extensive creative research in clothing practices, native to South West Asia, North Africa, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Their practice reflects upon reconstructing, repurposing, and restructuring donated items of clothing that hold memory, episodic events, and history, to negotiate larger questions about work and production, of labour and use, cultural sustainability, and of ideas revolving around research as production. Datta describes their works as ‘sites of tension’, intimate portraits and landscapes.

Rachel Dedman

Rachel Dedman is a curator, writer and art historian specialised in contemporary art and design from the Middle East. Since 2019 she has been the Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Recent projects for the V&A include exhibitions Jameel Prize: Moving Images, 2024, and Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics, 2021, showcasing the work of contemporary artists from across the Middle East and South Asia, as well as Beirut Mapped, a commissioned writing platform for Lebanese artists, and the foundation of the Jameel Fellowship artist residency programme.

Louise Bennetts

Louise Bennetts is a designer, researcher, maker and lecturer specialising in research and development surrounding future fashion and textile systems. As a fashion and textile designer, she has designed in-house and independently for brands Roksanda and Toogood, with whom she’s worked consistently since 2016 including collaborative projects with Carhartt and Birkenstock.