David A Morrish FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Fashion Design
Summary
David Morrish is a fashion design researcher, lecturer and consultant, whose work is centred around pedagogy, tailoring and CADCAM technologies. His work explores traditional craftsmanship skills and modern methods of manufacture with an aim to create a more contemporary and innovative approach to fashion tailoring, disseminated within a HE curriculum structure. David is currently a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
About
David’s work is underpinned with a sustainable philosophy, addressing ethical and environmental issues in an attempt to shape more socially aware and responsible creatives.
He is an advisor for Dugdale Bros & Co, Huddersfield and the non-government organisation IoU (Intellectuals Unite), set up and led by Dame Vivienne Westwood.
Specialist areas of interest
Sustainability and fashion design
Tailoring and the fashion industry
Sustainable design strategies
Approaches to CADCAM fashion
The fashion design process
New directions for fashion design
New models of fashion design practice
Fashion as an interdisciplinary practice
User-centred fashion
Fashion
Teaching
Subject areas
Fashion, Fashion Management and Communication, Jewellery and Metalwork
Courses
Ba (Hons) Fashion Design
Modules
Fashion Visual Communication
Exploration, Application and Realisation
Research
New Technologies – Sustainable Digital Printing for Worsted Cloth – a New model for 21st Century
PLATE – Extending Product Life Cycle – Sustainable Tailoring and Emotional Connectivity
Publications
Journal articles
Morrish, D. (2017). Wedding suit tips: Here comes the groom. MenstyleFashion.com. http://www.menstylefashion.com/wedding-suit-tips-comes-groom/
Conference papers
Morrish, D. (2017). Sustainable Fashion Tailoring: An approach for creating aheightened emotional attachment to garment apparel atundergraduate level, through pedagogy, story telling, digitaltechnologies and traditional craftsmanship. In Bakker, C., & Mugge, R. (Eds.) PLATE: Product Lifetimes And The Environment : conference proceedings, (pp. 280-286). Amsterdam: IOS Press: http://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-820-4-280
Exhibitions
Morrish, D. (2016). A New Business Model: Sustainable Printed Tailoring for the C21st. Textile Centre of Excellence, Red Doles Lane, Huddersfield. http://tcbl.eu/tcbl2016new
Other activities
External Examiner – Nottingham College (Formally New College Nottingham) Fda Fashion (Accredited by Nottingham Trent University) – 2014 – 2018