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RMIT's Professor to address Conference of Fashion Incubators

12 Aug '11
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Conference Convenor, Carol Hanlon said “Karen has been actively engaged as an advocate and leader in the Australian Fashion Industry for the past 30 years. From 2005 to 2010 through an industry secondment from her University position at RMIT, Karen was appointed Festival Director of the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival. For fourteen years prior Karen headed up the fashion programs at RMIT University where she nurtured the fashion industry's future talent”

During her tenure at RMIT University, Karen was the Australian representative for Paris based trend forecasting group; Studio Edelkoort. Karen was also a founding Board member of the Melbourne Fashion Festival, a position she held for nine years. She currently sits on the Boards of Melbourne Spring Fashion Week and Balletlab. She has also served as a Board member on the Australian Fashion Foundation, the Government committee for India Australia Education in the TCF industries and The Industry Development Board – Wool for the South Australian Government. More recently she has been on the Advisory Boards for State of Design Festival, the Design Research Institute and the Media Code of Conduct Working Group on Body Image for the Victorian State Government.

Karen worked as a fashion designer for over ten years in London, Melbourne and Sydney prior to working in academia. She still currently works as a strategic and design consultant within the fashion industry, and returned to the role of Program Director of Fashion at RMIT University in June 2010.

Third International Conference of Fashion Incubators

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