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Alexandra Cruchinho
Alexandra Cruchinho is a full-time professor and researcher at the School of Communication, Architecture, Art and Information Technologies of the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies since January 2021. She has been teaching in higher education in the areas of design, fashion design and photography since 1999. She got her Ph.D. in 2009 in textile engineering – her area of knowledge is in management and design by the School of Engineering of the University of Minho with a dissertation on the theme ‘Design: The continuous construction of skills’. Since 2000, she has coordinated several initiatives in the area of fashion, namely the organization of fashion shows, both at academic and professional levels with several national designers in the main fashion weeks. Her line of research is directed towards fashion design – production, fashion photography and editorial, contemporary fashion design, cultural heritage and sustainability in fashion.
Contact: CICANT, Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal.