Author Biography

Megan Strickfaden is a professor at the University of Alberta (Canada) and an adjunct professor at the University of Hasselt (Belgium).

She is a design anthropologist in her 27 th year of teaching and researching on design processes, material culture, disability studies, and specialized product design. Strickfaden began her career as a maker and design consultant who worked on creating various fashion-oriented products using human-centred design processes. She has a love of making processes, natural materials, hand-made, and witty objects, and finds herself attached to things that are connected to the many places she’s lived and the people she’s known.

Article Citations

MLA: Kennedy, Jessica, and Megan Strickfaden. “Entanglements of a Dress Named Laverne: Threads of Meaning between Humans and Things (and Things).” Fashion Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2019, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020102.

APA: Kennedy, J., & Strickfaden, M. (2019). Entanglements of a Dress Named Laverne: Threads of Meaning between Humans and Things (and Things). Fashion Studies, 2(1), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020102 

Chicago: Kennedy, Jessica, and Megan Strickfaden. “Entanglements of a Dress Named Laverne: Threads of Meaning between Humans and Things (and Things).” Fashion Studies 2, no. 1 (2019): 1-35. https://doi.org/10.38055/FS020102.