Alice Payne is Professor and Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include the fashion design process and the problem of design for sustainability within the fashion context. Alice is also an award-winning designer, investigating design for sustainability in fashion via practice-led research.

Evelise Anicet Rüthschilling, Ph.D is Full Professor (retired) at the Art Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She completed a post-graduate course in Fashion Design at The Art Institute of Chicago, USA (1994); Master of Fine Arts at UFRGS (1994); PhD in Computer Education at UFRGS (2002), and post-doctorate in Surface Design and Sustainable Fashion at the Center for Design and Sustainability - PGDesign-UFPR (2012). She was a guiding teacher of Master and Doctorate Course in Design - PGDESIGN-UFRGS. Coordinated the Research Center for Surface Design UFRGS, responsible for structuring this field of knowledge, author of the book Design de Superfície (Surface Design) (2008; 2013) Publisher of UFRGS. Evelise coordinated the Research Center for Sustainable Fashion, both laboratories are part of the Laboratory for Imaging and Technology - LIT - UFRGS. She was the director of the Fashion and Textiles virtual Museum of UFRGS until 2019. Evelise is a founding member of ABEPEM, Brazilian Association of Studies and Research in Fashion, which completes in 2019 fifteen years of the largest scientific congress of fashion in Brazil: Colóquio de Moda (Fashion Colloquium). She develops applied research in surface design and sustainable fashion at the studio Contextura, which is a laboratory of sustainable and circular fashion that has participated in editions of Brazil Eco Fashion Week, Rio Ethical Forum, Proglobal, Brazilian Sustainable Fashion League (ABIT/APEX), Global Fashion Agenda and Neonyt/Messe Frankfurt GmbH.