Holly McQuillan
Holly McQuillan is a New Zealand designer specialising in zero waste garment design and zero-waste fashion, a field in which she is considered "[one] of the most prominent proponents".[1] She is an assistant professor at Delft University, and the co-author of Zero Waste Fashion Design with Timo Rissanen.[2]
Early life and educationn[edit]
She holds a BDes and an MDes from Massey University[3][4] and completed a PhD in sustainable fashion design practice at the Swedish School of Textiles, in Högskolan I Borås (University of Borås) in Sweden.[5][6]
Career[edit]
McQuillan co-founded Space Between, a green business model for fashion design which acts as a platform for social innovation and enterprise, with Massey University colleague Jennifer Whitty.[7] In 2015, Te Papa acquired a collection of up-cycled garments from the Space Between Fundamentals range for their collection.[7]
In 2015, ObjectSpace in Auckland, New Zealand held a show of her experimental zero-waste and modifiable clothing collection Make/Use.[8] Make/Use is a system for open source, user-modifiable, zero-waste fashion practice.[9]
Since 2021 she has been assistant professor in Materialising futures in the Industrial Design Engineering department of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.[10] She was previously senior lecturer in design in the College of Creative Arts at Massey University in New Zealand.[2]
Selected publications[edit]
- Rissanen, Timo; McQuillan, Holly (2015). Zero Waste Fashion Design. Fairchild. ISBN 978-1472581983.
References[edit]
- ^ Brown, Sass (21 December 2017). "Sass Brown's sense of style: eliminating fashion waste from the source". The National. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
Timo Rissanen ... and New Zealand academic Holly McQuillan are two of the most prominent proponents of zero-waste design
- ^ a b Almond, Kevin (2017). "'A Review of Zero Waste Fashion Design' by Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan (Book review)" (PDF). Fashion Practice. 10 (1): 119–123. doi:10.1080/17569370.2017.1358416. S2CID 115276184. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
- ^ "College of Creative Arts, Massey University Wellington - Holly McQuillan". creative.massey.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- ^ McQuillan, Holly (2005). First son : memory and myth-- an adjustment of faith (Masters thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/6386.
- ^ "Mcquillan, Holly - Research - University of Borås". www.hb.se. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- ^ McQuillan, Holly (2020). Zero Waste Systems Thinking : Multimorphic Textile-Forms (PhD thesis). University of Borås.
- ^ a b Regnault, Claire (6 July 2017). "Award-winning garments from the rag pile". Te Papa Blog. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- ^ "Make/Use - Objectspace". archive.objectspace.org.nz. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- ^ McQuillan, Holly; Archer-Martin, J.; Menzies, G.; Bailey, J.; Kane, K.; Derwin, E. Fox (2018). "Make/Use: A System for Open Source, User-Modifiable, Zero Waste Fashion Practice". Fashion Practice. 10 (1): 7–33. doi:10.1080/17569370.2017.1400320. S2CID 4569351.
- ^ "Dr. McQuillan, H.L." TU Delft (in Dutch). Retrieved 10 July 2023.
External links[edit]
- Official website at Massey University
- Official website hollymcquillan.com
- Make/Use on the Best Awards website
- Holly McQuillan interviewed on RNZ Standing Room Only, 12:40 pm on 12 July 2015
- makeuse.nz, the website of the Make/Use project
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