Noorin is a fashion designer, educator and researcher specialising in design and pedagogy for sustainability. With over two decades of professional practice, she has held lecturing, research and programme leadership roles at universities internationally.
She was part of the first wave of Europe’s ethical fashion movement, founding the independent brand Outsider in London in 2009, and continues to exhibit and sell her work worldwide.
London
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2025: N. Khamisani. A Reflective Case Study on Inclusive Fashion Design Work Generated Through a Multiple Lives Design Process (March 2025). Chapter in Art, Media, Design Education+, Dirk Reynders (Author/Editor). OWL PRESS.
2024: N. Khamisani, V. Gate & M. Daneluzzo. “The Fashion Kitchen”: A case study on integrating biomaterials into fashion design education. (October 2024). Chapter in The Future of Fashion Education. The Responsible Fashion Series. Routledge.
2024: Khamisani, N. & Wilczek, B. Digitization of Fashion Design Education: Covid-19 and the Digital Shift. Chapter in Technology, Sustainability and the Fashion Industry: “Can Fashion Save The World?” The Responsible Fashion Series. Routledge.
2021: Lehtonen, Miikka Juhani; Khamisani, Noorin; Gatto, Gionata. Playful absence/absence of play. Dec 2021. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, v. 26, n. 4, pp. 20–36. ISSN 1360-1431.
2021: Khamisani, N. Fashion Design For Multiple Lives And Users. 12 Nov 2021. Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry.
2022: News article: Issey Miyake – a conceptual fashion designer for the many, The Conversation (UK edition).
2023: News article: Decolonising Fashion Design, Discovering Lost Histories in Radical Fashion Exercises, A Workbook of Modes and Methods.
Editors: Laura Gardner, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran. VALIZ.
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