Benilde is a fashion design researcher at the Science and Textiles Technology Department (UBI-Portugal). She holds a B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Fashion Design (2011 & 2013) both from the University of Beira Interior and with the dissertation ‘Contemporary Tailoring: Handmade Tailoring and Industrial Tailoring a Case Study’. She has fashion experience working as a patterncutting assistant of the menswear department at Twintex. B2B experience working as fashion design researcher at U.MAKE.ID project (B2B online platform). Temporary lecturer in Fashion Design courses at UBI (2016-2020).
2018-2020: fashion design researcher in TEXBOOST project: 'New Materials and Advanced Use of Natural Fibers: New fabrics for high-performance applications based on natural fibres', with the application of wool in textile fabrics for fashion products in activewear.
2020: Ph.D. in Fashion Design, with the research ‘Gender Issues in Genderless Clothing: Trends vs Paradigm’, an interdisciplinary study in fashion design with support from sociology and consumer behaviour.
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