Alba Cappellieri è Professore Ordinario di design del Gioiello e dell’Accessorio Moda al Politecnico di Milano,  presiede il corso di Laurea in Design della Moda, è direttore del corso di alto perfezionamento in Design del Gioiello e del Master in Accessory Design.Dal 2014 è direttore del Museo del Gioiello in Basilica Palladiana a Vicenza e Presidente della Women Jewellery Association Italy

Alessandra Vaccari  Senior researcher at the University IUAV of Venice, where she teaches Fashion History and Theory. Her main field of research consists of early 20th century fashion history and contemporary self-reliant fashion design. On fashion and modernism she published several articles and books, including Fashion at the Time of Fascism. Italian Modernist Lifestyle: 1922-1943, co-edited with Mario Lupano (2009). On self-reliant fashion she developed the idea of an international forum of Self-reliant Fashion Design–Politics and Practices in Fashion Design (organised with Vicky Salías, Buenos Aires 2010); and wrote La moda in tempo di crisi. Il movimento argentino del design indipendente in the book series Abito e identità (Vol. X, 2010).

Alexandra Cruchinho (1975) is Adjunct Professor in the School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco. It is researcher of the Cieba (Research Centre for Fine Arts), Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, since 2007. Is PhD in Textile Engineering, Branch Management and Design from the School of Engineering, University of Minho with Dissertation on the theme: Design - Continuous skill-building. Research is developing the project for post doctorate in the field of Fashion Production.

Ana Claudia Mei Alves de Oliveira É Professora titular da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, onde orienta pesquisas de mestrado, doutorado e pós-doutorado e ministra disciplinas no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Semiótica no eixo teórico da Semiótica discursiva. Entre seus objetos de estudo estão questões da marca e do consumo, as produções da comunicação social, da moda, da arte. Atua como consultora de mercado. É membro fundador do Centro de Pesquisas Sociossemióticas (CPS), no qual atua como co-diretora desde 1994, coordenando atualmente o projeto temático "Práticas de vida e produção de sentido na metrópole". Presidiu várias associações como AISV, ABES, ANPAP. Participa de conselhos científicos nacionais e internacionais. Publicou vários livros e artigos.

Ana Cristina Broega Doutora em Engenharia Têxtil – Física Têxtil (Ramo: Conforto) e Mestre em Design e Marketing Têxtil pela Universidade do Minho; É professora auxiliar da Universidade do Minho, atuando nos cursos de 1º ciclo em Design e Marketing da Moda e no Mestrado em Design e Marketing nas disciplinas: Design de Vestuário, Design de Acessórios de Moda (Calçado), Preparação de Coleções e Conforto e Fisiologia de Vestuário. É investigadora do Centro de Ciência e Tecnologia Têxtil da Universidade do Minho desde 1997.

Ana Ferreira Ramos Arquiteta; Mestre em Engenharia Civil (especialidade de Construções) pela Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra; Doutora em Engenharia Civil, especialidade de Construções, pela Universidade de Coimbra; Coordenou dois projetos de investigação na área da educação: projeto "A Relação entre o Aproveitamento no Ensino Secundário e no Ensino Superior" - Politécnica e projeto "AIA |Acolher, Integrar e Acompanhar" - POCI 2010; É Coordenadora Institucional do Processo de Bolonha no Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (onde é docente desde 1998).

Ana Mery Shebe De Carli PhD in Communication and Semiotics, PUC/SP (2007). Professor at the Universidade de Caxias do Sul - UCS, since 1995. Founder and coordinator of the Simpósio Nacional de Moda e Tecnologia/UCS (2005...). Coordinator of the research: Fashion in the Third Millennium: new values new practices/UCS (2009 ...). Part of the working team in Fashion and Sustainability at the Colóquio de Moda - Brasil. Author of books: O Corpo no Cinema: Variações do Feminino (2009); O Sensacional da Moda (2002); co-organizer of the book: Moda em Sintonia (2010); Moda sustentabilidade e emergências (2012) among other articles and chapters in the field of semiotics, fashion, and culture.

Ana Paula Celso de Miranda  Doctor from FEA-USP. Coordinator of Design and Professor of disciplines' Fashion and Consumption "and" Fashion and Film "in the course of the CAA-Design UFPE which is leading the G-COMO - Consumption Fashion Research Group. Coordinator of Consumption Fashion Research Area of Colóquio de Moda. Director of ABEPEM - Brazilian Association for Studies and Research in Fashion. `Published books: author of Fashion is communication: experiences, memories, links and author of Fashion Consumption - the Person-Object Relationship.

Claudia Regina Garcia Vicentini Professora da Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades da USP, na graduação e mestrado em Têxtil e Moda, na área de design. Engenheira têxtil – FEI. É Doutora em engenharia mecânica pela UNICAMP e Mestre em Comunicação e Semiótica pela PUC/SP.

Cristiane Mesquita Doutora em Psicologia pelo Núcleo de Subjetividades Contemporâneas (PUC-SP, 2008); professora e pesquisadora do Programa de Mestrado em Design na Universidade Anhembi Morumbi/SP.

Evelise Annicet Ruthschilling Post doctoral studies in Sustainable Surface Design, at UFPR; PhD inComputer Science in Education: Surface Design; and Master of Visual Arts,both at UFRGS. Coordinator of research centers: Surface Design andSustainable Fashion, both at UFRGS. Guiding masters and doctorate students in design at PGDesign / UFRGS. Partner and designer at the studio Contexture, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. 

Fausto Roberto Poço Viana Professor Doutor e Livre docente do Departamento de Artes Cênicas da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da USP.

Giulia Ceriani Semiotician, is president of baba, a market research and scenarios institute. Phd in Sciences of Language (EHESS, Paris), Ceriani is professor of Advertising Communication and Communication and Consumption at Siena University. Main publishings: Moda: Regole e rappresentazioni (Franco Angeli, 1994) ; Marketing Moving: l’approccio semiotico (Franco Angeli, 2001); Il dispositivo ritmico (Meltemi, 2004); Hot spots e sfere di cristallo. Marketing della tendenza e ricerca semiotica (Franco Angeli 2007) Imperfezioni (with E.Landowski, eds., et.al. edizioni, 2010)

Isabella Pezzini è professore di Filosofia e Teoria dei linguaggi presso il Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale dell’Università di Roma La Sapienza, dove insegna Semiotica. E’ presidente dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici, fa parte della redazione di Versus.Quaderni di studi semiotici, di E/C e di Lexia. Si è occupata dello sviluppo teorico della semiotica, di analisi testuale, dei linguaggi dei media, di semiotica dello spazio e della cultura, con studi sulle forme espressive della contemporaneità e l’immaginario dei consumi.

Joana Cunha PhD in Textile Engineering - Design and Management, by the University of Minho; MSc in Design and Marketing by the University of Minho. Assistant Professor at the University of Minho, acting in the 1st cycle course in Fashion Design and Marketing and in the Master courses in Design and Marketing and Fashion Communication Design. Director of the 1st cycle course in Fashion Design and Marketing since 2013 and a researcher at the Centre for Textile Science and Technology, University of Minho since 1996.

Kathia Castilho is the president of Brazilian Association of Fashion Studies and Research (ABEPEM) and also doubles as the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Estação das Letras e Cores Publishing House, a publisher company specialized in both fashion and design. Therefore, she organizes many books and events in these fields of study, such as “Consumption – practices and narratives” (2011). She is also the editor of dObra[s], an interdisciplinary magazine of fashion studies. Kathia holds titles such as doctor and master in Communication and Semiotics (São Paulo Catholic University), which allow her to act as a professor in the areas of fashion, design and consumption in graduate and undergraduate courses in various academic institutions throughout Brazil. She manages the research group Fashion, consumption and city at the Sociosemiotics Research Center (CPS) and is also a guest researcher at Ethos Group: Communication, Behaviour and Body Strategies at ECO-UFRJ. Previously, she coordinated the book collection Fashion Communication at Anhembi Morumbi Publishers, were she signed books such as Fashion and Language (2004) and Fashion Discourses: semiotics, design and body (2006).

Mara Rubia Sant´Anna Professor of Fashion History and of the Master in History at the University of the State of Santa Catarina. Associate Professor d'Acueil Team 3400 “ARCHE”, affiliated with the University of Strasbourg (FR). She is the leader of the research group “Society and Fashion”. 

Marcelo Machado Martins PhD in General Linguistics and Semiotics (USP: FFLCH) with internship at ENS: LSH (Lyon and Paris). He is an associate professor at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE): Academic Unit of Garanhuns (UAG). Integrates several research groups, especially the vice coordination in GT Body, Fashion and Communication of the Colóquio de Moda; in GP Education: textual-discursive manifestations of diversity (UAG: UFRPE). Develops projects related to teaching and research Semiotics of Narrative and Discourse, the Sociossemiotics of the Fashion and the Consumption. For these areas, acts as conceptual reviewer of books and professional journals. He has authored several articles, as well as introductions and book chapters. Co-authored, published Como fazer montras (Port: Vitrimagens, 2004), Discourses of Fashion: semiotics, design and body (São Paulo: Anhembi Morumbi, 2005), Book of Texts: Field Education (Recife: UFRPE, 2007).

Maria Claudia Bonadio is a Lecturer in Art and Design at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. She is PhD in History and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo.  She is the author of the book Moda e sociabilidade: Mulheres e consumo na São Paulo dos anos 1920 [Fashion and Sociability: Women and Consumption in São Paulo in the 1920s] (2007),Moda e publicidade no Brasil dos anos 1960 [Fashion and advertising in Brazil during the 1960s (in press)] and is the editor of História e Cultura de Moda [History and Culture of Fashion] (2011). She is a member of the Board of Directors of Brazilian Studies and Research into Fashion.

Maria de Fátima da S. C. G. de Mattos Doutora em Artes pela ECA/USP e Mestre em História e Cultura pela FHDSS/UNESP. Professora e pesquisadora do Centro Universitário Moura Lacerda (Rib.Preto/SP) na área de Educação, Arte e Cultura. Pesquisadora do Grupo de Pesquisa do CNPq "Moda, cultura e historicidade" (SENAC).

Maria Eduarda Araujo Guimarães has a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and graduated in Social Sciences and Law, both from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. She is currently a Lecturer in Fashion Design at Senac University Center, São Paulo. She does research in the areas of fashion and consumption, with emphasis on their relationship to expression of identities and the construction of lifestyles in cities and in virtual social spaces created through social networks. Publisher of Iara, magazine of fashion, culture and art, shealso is  leader of the research group on Culture and Behavior of CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - Ministry of Science and Technology)

Mário de Araújo Graduated in Textile Technology at the University of Manchester (UK) in 1971 and in Management at the University of Salford (UK) in 1972. In 1978 was awarded the degree of PhD in Materials Science (Fibre Science) for work in the field of Physical Properties of Fibrous Structures at the University of Strathclyde (UK), in 1983 was conferred the title of Agregação (higher doctorate/ habilitation) by the University of Minho (Portugal), in 1985 was elected Fellow of the Textile Institute (UK), in 2001 was awarded a Honorary Doctorate by the Technical University of Iasi (Romania), in 2003 conferred the title of Honorary Professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (UK) and in 2010 The AUTEX 2010 Lifetime Achievements Award (international). He was co-responsible for setting up education and research in textiles (1975) and design (1989) at the University of Minho, Portugal, having pursued his carrier at Minho to become Professor of Textile Engineering in 1985 and Dean of Engineering in 1989. He was President of AUTEX- The Association of Universities for Textiles (International) from 2001 to 2004. He works currently as a consultant, Research Professor (retired) at the Fibrous Materials Research Group of the University of Minho (Portugal) and Expert for the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium) on the ESCO-TEXTAN Reference Group. He has acted as a consultant to many business companies, industrial organizations and government both at national and international level. He has been visiting professor at many universities worldwide. He is in the editorial/ scientific advisory board of a number of major scientific journals. He is the author or co-author of 13 textbooks, over 100 technical papers, and of over 300 presentations of original work at international scientific and technical meetings. He is the joint holder of 6 patents. His current research interests are as follows: Engineering Design of Fibrous Materials & Structures, Technical Textiles, Supply Chain Management in the Fashion Industry.

Marizilda dos Santos Menezes PhD in Urban Environmental Structures and Master of Built Environment Technology at University of Sao Paulo - Brasil.  MBA in Design Environnement at  Ecole des Beaux Arts Appliqués et Arts de Nancy - France; Building College - Ecole des Beaux Arts Et Arts Appliqués Nancy; Industrial Design College at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado; Design and Plastic at Fine Arts College of Sao Paulo. Coordinator of Design Graduate Program of Universidade Estadual Paulista (2004 - 2007) and (2010-2013). Professor of Design College and Graduate courses and Editor of Educação Grafica Journal (ISBN 1414-3895 ). Leader of Space and Form Language research group. Expertise in ​​Design, with emphasis in Fashion Design , Graphic Expression , Drawing , Projetual Methodology , African and Afrobrazilian Cultures.

Mônica Moura is a designer, teacher and researcher with academic formation and professional experience in Interior Design; Visual Arts ; Arts Education ; Master and PhD in Communication and Semiotics ( PUC / SP ); Postdoctoral studies in the Department of Art & Design/Post Graduation Program in Design ( PUC / RJ ). Is Assistant Professor Dr. of undergraduate courses in Graphic Design and Product Design and coordinates the Laboratory Experiments in Design at the Department of Design. Is a teacher and guidance counselor on Design Post Graduation Program in Architecture , Arts and Communication School , Bauru Campus , where  coordinates the Research Laboratory of Contemporary Design . Is Collaborator Professor of Post Graduation Program in Arts, on Institute of Arts , São Paulo Campus. All UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista. As a researcher she has published articles, chapters and books about the Design and Technology (digital media); and Art; and Fashion, and Education; and Methodologies; Brazilian Design, Research in Contemporary Design, among others . She is a member of boards of scientific journals and conferences in the field of design; the board of ABEPEM (Brazilian Association of Fashion Studies and Research); the SBDI ( Brazilian Society of Information Design ) where he was president of the management of 2010/2013.

Pierluigi Cervelli was born in Rome in 1976. After the Degree in Communication Studies at the University of Bologna, during 2002, he concludes the Ph.D. in Semiotics and Psychology of symbolic communication at the University of Siena (2007). His basic research interest is a semiotic perspective on the relation between urban space and cultural marginality, in particular about urban outskirts, migrations, globalisation. Cervelli has been teaching at the Universities of Siena and of Roma “La Sapienza” as a free-lance Professor, since 2006 to 2009, before becoming Research Professor in 2009, in the Faculty of Political Sciences, Sociology and Communication studies, University "La Sapienza" of Rome, teaching now General Semiotics and Semiotics of Consumption. In the same period (2002-2009) he worked as a human resources consultant and as a free lance researcher in customer experience analysis. He lectured in France and in Brazil, where he has been visiting professor at the PUC of São Paulo.

Raul Cunca Master Degree in Industrial Design from Milan Domus Academy and a Doctorate Degree from Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa in Industrial Design. Currently Professor at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, since 1994, and visiting Professor in the Master of Industrial Design at Facoltà di Architettura - Sapienza Università di Roma. Member in several scientific committees, namely referee for the diid_disegno industrial industrial design magazine and member of the international board of referees of Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca – MIUR, Italy. He is author of the books “Territórios Híbridos” published by UL-FBA in 2006 and “A Magia da Polaroid - Colecção Raul Cunca —The Magic of Polaroid – Raul Cunca Collection”, published by Casa da Cerca in 2012.

Rita Andrade  PhD in Cultural History - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Master of Arts in History of Textiles and Dress - WSA/University of Southampton, UK. Museology specialist (lato sensu) - Institute of Museology of São Paulo – FESP/SP. Adjunct Professor at the Visual Arts Faculty, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil, teaching at the MA and PhD Program in Art and Visual Culture and at the BA in Fashion Design. Editorial Board Member of DoBras journal (Brazil). Advisory Board Member of ABEPEM - Brazilian Association for Studies and Research in Fashion. Associated member of Costume Committee/ICOM and its representative at the ICOM’s Trienial in 2014. Founder and editor of the Brazilian edition of Fashion Theory - the journal of dress, body and culture (2002-2006). Dress historian consultant for “REPLICAR”, a Project of the Textiles Department at Museu Paulista/Universidade de São Paulo). Co-author of a chapter on Brazillian dress for Berg’s Encyclopaedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010). Currently mapping dress collections in Brazilian museums for a Sabatical Year Research based at Programa Avançado de Cultura Contemporânea – PACC/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Major research interests rely on material culture, heritage, colonialism and post-colonialism, history of dress and textiles (through object based research), with an emphasis on Brazilian and Latin American collections and their insertion in contemporary culture.

Rosane Preciosa Doutora em Psicologia pelo Núcleo de Subjetividades Contemporâneas (PUC-SP, 2002); professora do bacharelado interdisciplinar de Artes e Design da UFJF.

Rui Alberto Lopes Miguel is graduated in Textile Engineering (1985) by the University of Beira Interior (UBI). During eight years he worked as textile engineer in the Wool Industry. In 1987 he started his academic career at UBI in the field of Textile Engineering and Fashion Design. He was researcher at CSIC – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain, in the field of fabric mechanics and performance, with a financial support of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. He got a PhD degree in Textile Engineering by UBI (2000). He is researcher at Textile and Paper Research Unit of UBI. He was a member of General Council of UBI and a consultant of Portuguese Air Force for fabric design and performance. He is Associate Professor, the Director of PhD Program in Textile Engineering, the Head of the Textile Department and a member of Scientific Council of Engineering Faculty of UBI. He is member of the Consultant Council of the ATP – Portuguese Textile and Clothing Association. He is involved in many studies and projects with the industry. He is author and co-author of more than 150 book chapters and journals and conferences papers in textile physics, smart clothing and fashion design areas.

Solange Wajman Professor of Communication "Programa de Pós graduação da Universidade Paulista (UNIP)," São Paulo, Brazil. PhD in Social Sciences - Université René Descartes, Sorbonne (1994). Postdoctoral research at the School of Theatre and Film Lisbon-ESTC (2009).Leader of the Research Group MODA, “COMUNICAÇÂO E CULTURA” [¨FASHION, COMMUNICATION and CULTURE¨] based at the Paulista University , together with CNPq since 2005. Solange Wajnman has experience in the field of communication, with an emphasis on Communication Theory, acting on the following themes: visual communication, fashion, style, consumption and new technologies and epistemology.

Suzana Barreto Martins Designer, ergonomist, researcher in the areas of Ergonomics, Design and Sustainability with emphasis on ergonomics applied to fashion products and clothing and design for sustainability applied to textiles , clothing and apparel fashion products. Postdoctoral in Sustainable Design-Federal University of Paraná; PhD in Industrial Engineering- Federal University of Santa Catarina; Masters in Ergonomics and Specialization in Materials and Textile Processes-National Autonomous University of Mexico-UNAM ; Degree in Industrial Design-Federal University of Paraná. Adjunct Professor in the Dep. of Design, State University of Londrina, UEL. Multiple teaching activities as visiter professor in MBA courses. Creator of OIKOS methodology for evaluating the usability and comfort of garment and fashion products; author of numerous articles published in conferences, journals, book chapters, in Brazil and abroad. Coordinates among other: the Group Work Fashion, Sustainability and Inclusion in Colloquium Fashion; the Design for Sustainability Applied Textile Industry with emphasis on technological innovation in processes and new materials UEL, with some patents deposited inventions; and an inter institutional research group Design, Sustainability and Innovation.

Sylvia Demetrescu is PhD in Semiotics by the Sao Paulo Catholic University with a postdoctoral at French Institute. For 30 years was the VISUAL MERCHANDISING director of ROLEX watches in Brazil. She was a teacher at Ecole Supérieure de Visual Merchandising, in Vevey, from 2002 to 2013; editor of Inspiration Magazine from 2004 to 2013. Wrote eleven books about Visual Merchandising in Switzerland and Brazil. The last one was TIPOLOGIA E ESTÉTICA DO VISUAL MERCHANDISING. Editora Estação das Letras e Cores, 2012. Realized the International event Imagens Urbanas, Visual Merchandising in Rio de Janeiro, 2009, 2010. Realized the International event I e II e III Seminário Internacional de Pesquisa: CONSUMO – Marca e Cidade with Kathia Castilho, 2011/12/13.

Teresa Franqueira Doutorada em Design pelo Politecnico di Milano, mestre em Design Industrial pela FEUP / ESAD, pós-graduada em Design Industrial pela Glasgow School of Art / CPD e licenciada em Design de Equipamento pela ESAD Matosinhos. Desenvolveu actividade de investigação com Ezio Manzini no Politecnico di Milano (2006 a 2009), onde também leccionou durante esse período. É docente na Universidade de Aveiro e membro da Comissão Executiva do Departamento de Comunicação e Arte da UA. É investigadora na Unidade de Investigação ID+ (UA.UP) e coordenadora do ID+ DESIS Lab, laboratório da rede internacional DESIS – Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability.

Valter Carlos Cardim Licenced by the Faculty of Arquitecture of the University of Sao Paulo, equivalence with the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon), post-graduated in "Design of Outfits and Products" by the University of Porto, specializing in "Design Direction" by the Domus Academy of Milano, M.B.A. in "Design Management" by the ISCTE - 'Instituto Superior das Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa', Lisbon. PhD in Anthropology – Cultural and Social Branch at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, New University of Lisbon with the thesis "Fashion Design, Culture and Identity, Social Sewing Clothing of English in the XX th Century." It is Researcher at CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Lisbon.

Zara Pinto-Coelho Department of Communication, Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), University of Minho, Portugal, PhD in Semiotics of Communication, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences, Minho University, Portugal. Director of the research strand Language and social Interaction at the Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho. Has done research on discourse and drugs' prevention, discourse and gender, heterosexuality and visual ads in women's magazines.