Isabella Burley is an editor and creative consultant. Burley currently holds the position of Editor-in-Chief at Dazed & Confused, a position she was appointed in 2015, at the age of 24. She is also the departing Editor-in-Residence of Helmut Lang, where she was brought in to revive the label with her sharp visual and editorial approach. Burley began working in fashion at the age of 17, on the retail floor of Dover Street Market in London. After high school, whilst working as a fashion assistant, she discovered her passion for writing and began the freelance career that eventually led her to Dazed & Confused. In 2020, Burley curated the photography exhibition "365 Days of Pasenau" and launched Climax Books, a distributor of hard-to-find publications on overlooked art, photography and counterculture.

Carmen Busquets is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor, and an early champion of the fashion-tech space. In 1990, Busquets opened a fashion boutique in her native Venezuela, quickly realizing her high fashion business relied on her utilizing her international network. Busquets consequently became one of the first professional investors in luxury e-commerce, and in 1999, she became  a founding investor and co-founder of Net-a-Porter. Her current portfolio includes The Business of Fashion, Moda Operandi, Farfetch and Cult Beauty. As of today, an estimated 10,000 jobs have been created from Busquets’ investments.

Cecilia Dean is co-founder of the independent publication VISIONAIRE, a unique hybrid of a limited fashion magazine and a conceptual artist book. The publication was launched in 1991, and Dean oversees it to this day. She also manages related projects in film, online content, public art, immersive experiences and brand activations as part of the VISIONAIRE venture. Dean has formerly worked full-time as a model, for the likes of Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. She has also been a visiting professor at Parsons School of Design for over a decade and lectured extensively in New York, Seoul, Hamburg, Istanbul, Beijing, Moscow and São Paulo. In 2019, Dean headed the launch of VISIONAIRE’s new experimental cultural agency in China.

Akiko Fukai is a curator of fashion and textile arts, currently working as the Director and Curator Emeritus of the Kyoto Costume Institute. Fukai has a master’s degree in fashion history from the National University of Ochanomizu, and studied Art History at Paris-Sorbonne University. In 2004 Fukai received an honorary doctoral degree from her alma mater, and she has since lectured at universities in both Shizuoka and Tokyo. Fukai has organized several major fashion exhibitions in Japan, London, Paris and New York, usually focusing on the fashion history of her native Japan. She received the 39th Society for the Study of Japonism Award and published her most recent book Kimono Refashioned: Japan’s Impact on International Fashion in 2018.

Angela Hill is a publisher and photographer, and the co-founder and co-director of the book wholesaler and publishing house Idea Books. Hill comes from a fashion background, having worked for Comme des Garçons and Browns, and ended up pursuing a career in photography. She and her husband David Owen began curating and selling books in the early 2000’s, having always collected extra copies of their favourite publications. Idea Books quickly became the industry’s go-to for rare, out-of-print publications on fashion, art, design and architecture. Today Idea Books is present in leading concept stores in London, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Paris, and the publishing house has more than 400,000 followers on their Instagram, using it to sell a curated selection of publications.

Kimberly Jenkins is the founder of Fashion and Race Database and the Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at the School of Fashion at Ryerson University. She has previously lectured at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. As an educator, Jenkins has specialized in fashion history and theory, and has become known for designing the elective course and exhibition entitled Fashion and Race. Her insight and expertise on cultural awareness in fashion has led Jenkins to collaborations with Gucci, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. She has also shared her insights at SXSW and Google HQ. In 2017 Jenkins launched the online Fashion and Race Database, filled with open-source tools to expand the narrative of fashion history.

Terry Jones MBE is a graphic designer, art director and book- and magazine-editor. Jones began his career as Art Director of Vanity Fair and British Vogue in the early 1970’s. After leaving Vogue in 1977, Jones established his own studio, Instant Design, and continued working as an Art Director and Creative Consultant for numerous books, exhibitions, magazines, advertising campaigns and television projects. In 1980, Jones co-founded i-D Magazine, which presented an alternative view of fashion and has influenced the magazine industry to this day. Jones has written and edited several i-D related books, and in 2017 he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to fashion and popular culture.

Steven Kolb is Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). Kolb holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from New York University and an honorary doctorate of the Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design at Ferris State University. Kolb oversees all operations of the 500 designers organized in the CFDA, and also manages the associations memberships, activities and philanthropic efforts; such as Fashion Targets Breast Cancer, disaster relief funds and HIV/AIDS initiatives. In his role, Kolb has also helped cultivate emerging American fashion talent, and under his guidance, the CFDA Fashion Awards have become the preeminent spotlight on American fashion. In 2020 Kolb foresaw the challenges of live fashion shows in a time of social distancing, and led the CFDA to launch the digital platform RUNWAY360.

Shala Monroque is a creative consultant, content developer and curator. Her early work includes art advising at The Gagosian Gallery and the position of Editor-at-Large of Pop Magazine. Monroque filled the role as Creative Director of Garage Magazine from 2011 to 2014, working closely with artists such as Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Anna Craycroft and Hedi Slimane. Monroque also served as a consultant with Prada for three years. Through the years, she has contributed to Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, served as a Co-Chair for the New York Public Library Gala Event and graced magazine covers and Vanity Fair’s International Best Dressed List. Monroque walked in the Chloé Fashion Week 2020 show, alongside other female creatives.

Antwaun Sargent is a writer and critic, appearing in The New York Times, New Yorker, New York Review of Books, W, Vogue and other publications. Sargent has also contributed to museum and gallery publications with essays on artists like Ed Clark, Mickalene Thomas, Arthur Jafa, Deborah Roberts and Yinka Shonibare. Sargent has lectured at Harvard and Yale universities and co-organized a number of exhibitions, including "The Way We Live Now" at Aperture and the traveling exhibition "Young, Gifted and Black." In 2019, he released his first book, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, addressing the transformation taking place in today’s fashion and art scene.

Carla Sozzani is a gallerist, publisher and former fashion editor. She is also President of the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa. Sozzani began working as an editor for several fashion magazines while obtaining a degree in Economy at the Bocconi University in Milan, eventually editing Italian Vogue’s special issues, American Vogue and the Italian edition of Elle. In 1990, Sozzani founded Galleria Carla Sozzani in Milan, mostly focusing on photography and art, but the gallery was eventually augmented by a bookshop, a fashion and design store, a café, a hotel and a rooftop garden. This new concept, 10 Corso Como, pioneered a new model of blending fashion, food, art, music and design, creating a union of culture and commerce. The 10 Corso Como concept has also been launched at two venues in Seoul. In 2019, Sozzani opened a new cultural space in Paris, through the Fondazione Sozzani.

Luis Venegas is a creative director, editor and publisher of Fanzine137, EY!, C☆ndy Transversal, The Printed Dog and The Intim Mates News Paper. Venegas has pursued personal publishing projects since 2004, and releases his magazines as limited editions in selected retailers around the world. Venegas has also worked on projects with brands like Gucci, Loewe and JW Anderson as a creative director, a capsule collection with Acne Studios, perfume launches for Puig/Carolina Herrera and collaborations with Levi’s and Eytys. In 2020, Venegas released The Candy Book of Transversal Creativity with Rizzoli, showcasing the last decade of C☆ndy Transversal publications.

Ina Delcourt is the former International Press Director of Hermès, starting in 1997 and holding the position for two decades. Delcourt started her fashion career in Japan in 1981, initially as the press representative for Comme des Garçons in Tokyo, and later in Paris. In 1996, Delcourt became the Communication Director for Jil Sander in Hamburg. During her years in the fashion communication field, Delcourt was in charge of Comme des Garçons’ “Mode et Photo” exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, as well as the Jil Sander & Mario Merz Pavilion during the Firenze Art and Fashion Biennale i 1996.

Yoshiko Edström is the founder of Edström Office, a consultancy office with a vision of integrating sales and PR for foreign companies in the Japanese market. Edström began working for Maison Martin Margiela in 1992, where she served as the Promotion Manager and Sales Manager for about fifteen years. Since founding her eponymously named consultancy in 2008, she has leveraged her international experience through client consultancy and involvement in planning and managing collection presentations in both Paris and London. Today, Edström Office has over twenty clients across Europe, the United States and Japan on its roster.

Hanne Eide is a fashion historian and theorist who was recently appointed Curator for Fashion and Dress at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway. Eide has previously worked as a freelance curator, editor, writer and lecturer. Her work often centres around the transnational history of the fashion business and the history of cultural industries. Eide is currently managing the partnership and collaborative projects between the National Museum and International Library of Fashion Research.

Shelley Fox is the Donna Karan Professor of Fashion, and the founding Director of the MFA Fashion Design and Society program at Parsons School of Design in New York from 2008 – 2021. She previously held the prestigious position of Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins in London from 2000-2014. She is also an award-winning designer and has created numerous experimental and innovative clothing collections that were sold internationally at key retail outlets. Her work has been included in over 45 prestigious exhibitions across the world, as well as published in over 30 books and 14 exhibition catalogues broadly across fashion, design, and art journals, as well as academic publications.

Tiffany Godoy is an author, fashion editor for print and online and a TV host. Godoy is recognized as an expert on Japanese street fashion, and is the co-founder of The Reality Show Entertainment and Editor-in-Chief of a related Instagramazine. Godoy writes a monthly column for the Japanese fashion publication Spur and hosts The Anthropology Podcast.

Geir Haraldseth is a curator, currently co-curating a survey show of the Norwegian contemporary art scene - the inaugural exhibition for the new National Museum in Norway, opening in 2021. Haraldseth has an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College, and his previous positions include Director of Rogaland Kunstsenter, contributing editor of Wallet and curator at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. He is appointed co-curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022.

Recho Omondi is a designer, brand consultant and public speaker. She studied design and patternmaking at the Savannah College of Art and Design and founded her own label, OMONDI in 2015. Recho has lectured at Parsons New School of Design, Central Saint Martins and consults for fashion brands and design education institutions. She is the host The Cutting Room Floor, an intimate fashion podcast connecting the network of the industry. The show has been featured on WWD, SSENSE, HIGHSNOBIETY and GRAZIA.

Dr. Marco Pecorari is Assistant Professor and Program Director of the MA in Fashion Studies at Parsons Paris where he teaches and conducts research on Fashion History and Theory. His research focuses on the politics of archives and museums, exploring the intersections of critical theory, fashion media, performance and heritage. He is author of Fashion Remains: Rethinking Fashion Ephemera in the Archive (Bloomsbury, 2021) which explores fashion ephemera such as invitations, catalogs, and press releases and their role in documenting the creative tensions, aesthetic affinities, disciplinary relationships, and commissions within the fashion industry. In 2019, he co-founded the festival and publication Printing Fashion.

Patrick Scallon is a respected and long-standing professional in luxury & fashion communications with significant media, institutional, artistic and commercial reach. Formerly an in-house Communications Art Director and Communications Director with Maison Martin Margiela 1994 - 2008 and Dries Van Noten 2008 - 2022 he now operates internationally as an independent consultant to the fashion, luxury, and lifestyle sectors. Sparking and shaping creative energy, content and narrative using creative endeavour to achieve and maintain brand positioning. He has initiated and driven many collaborative opportunities for branding and creative excellence across Europe, the USA, and Asia. Scallon is a recipient of the French honour of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to fashion in France, decorated in 2019.

Nikolaas Verstraeten (1999) is a writer and researcher with a keen interest in the feud between the visual and the literary. Driven primarily to the clandestine, Verstraetens work explores how artists and publishers’ private libraries have directed and informed their work, blatantly turning bibliophilism into both topic and methodology.