Elisa Palomino
Elisa Palomino has worked for over three decades across sustainable fashion, higher education, and Arctic anthropology. Her research addresses Indigenous knowledge, participatory design, ethics, and heritage, in Arctic and Subarctic societies. She has 25 years of experience designing for luxury fashion brands including John Galliano, Christian Dior, Moschino, Roberto Cavalli, and Diane von Furstenberg. She holds an AHRC-funded PhD from the London College of Fashion and an MA from Central Saint Martins, where she served as Director of Fashion Print for ten years, and has been a guest professor at Polimoda, Marangoni, IED, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Iceland Academy of the Arts, the University of Borås, the Academy of Art University San Francisco, FIT, Parsons, Shenkar, Bunka Gakuen and Osaka Fashion Institute. She has led EU-funded projects including Horizon 2020 *FishSkin* and held fellowships at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, the Library of Congress (Kluge Fellowship), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Koç University’s ANAMED and International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University.