Harriette Richards

Dr Harriette Richards is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her work focuses on ethical and sustainable fashion systems, consumer culture and fashion in the settler colonial imagination. She is co-founder of the Critical Fashion Studies research group and co-host of the Critical Fashion Studies Podcast and is currently working on a book exploring the impacts of settler colonialism on the fashion cultures of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Lecturer, RMIT University
  • 2025–present
    Senior Lecturer, RMIT University

Education

  • 2018 
    Western Sydney University, PhD

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