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Nicole Crouch

Nicole Crouch

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Art & Design

Email: nicole.crouch@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: Alison Gwilt, Fabri Blacklock

Nicole is a senior textile print designer and design team manager in the fashion industry. Her textile print designs span runway, royalty and celebrities to local and accessible markets. Nicole has immersed within remote artisan communities around the world and developed continuing mutually beneficial relationships. This combination of experiences has created an understanding of the rhythms and values of textile creation within various context.

Nicole is the Creative Industries & Academic Research Lead at the Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative® where she translates complex legal and Cultural Sustainability concepts into fashion industry methodologies and tertiary design education strategies.

At UNSW, Nicole is a Casual Academic teaching into Textiles and sustainability at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a PhD candidate. Her research question is: How can commercial textile print designers in the fashion industry be supported to turn cultural misappropriation into Cultural Sustainability?

Cultural Intellectual Property in Commercial Textile Print Design

N. Crouch, Cultural Sustainability and Fashion, Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative, 13 Apr 2024.