Andrew (Andy) Reilly is a professor and curator in the Fashion Design and Merchandising program at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa. His research areas investigate appearance-related issues surrounding gender and sexuality identity as well as historic and cultural aspects of the fashion industry in Hawai‘i. His books include Handbook of Men’s Fashion (Intellect), Fashion, Dress, and Post-postmodernism (Bloomsbury), among other publications. He has served as president of both the International Textile and Apparel Association and the Textile and Apparel Programs Accrediting Commission, and is a fellow of the former.

Judith Beyer is a fashion studies lecturer at AMD Akademie Mode & Design, Germany. She was named to the 2023 Business of Fashion's BoF 500 and Zalando BoF's New Zealand and Oceania Dean's List. Her research focuses on the intersection of fashion and culture, identity, and queer fashion. Her books include Lesbian Styles in Cinema (co-authored, EUP) and Antigender Fashion: The Possibilities of Gender-Fluid and Non-Binary Fashion Design (Bloomsbury). She has also published in Queer Fashion, ZoneMode, and other academic journals.

Yuniya Kawamura is professor of sociology at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). She is the author of Fashion-ology (Bloomsbury) which has been translated into Italian, Swedish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, and Korean. Her recent publications include Sebastian Masuda (Anthem Press) and Fashioning Japanese Subcultures (Bloomsbury). She was a visiting scholar at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan in August, 2025.

Dr. Yoko Fujishima is an associate professor at the College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University in Japan. Her research centers on the fashion system within the contemporary media environment. Her main interests are fashion culture under digital media and the cultural and social impacts of cutting-edge technology within the fashion field.

Kina serves as a Guest Lecturer in Digital Fashion Creation for the MA program in Fashion and Textile Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her graduation design was shortlisted for Gucci’s Global Graduate Design Competition. In 2026, she guided MA students and herself to be featured in the January issue of VOGUE Hong Kong, collaborating in 3D format with 8 emerging design brands from different countries.

Nirbhay Rana is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Fashion at IILM University, India, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), London. His academic work examines global fashion and textile systems, with emphasis on gendered labour, ethics, sustainability, and education in Global South production contexts. He received the Sustainability Educator of the Year Award (2025) at the SustainableNXT Awards, India, and has been an invited speaker at international academic forum.