Timo Rissanen
Timo Rissanen is a Finnish artist, designer, scholar, and educator. He completed a Bachelor of Design in Fashion & Textiles at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), after which he operated the award-winning menswear brand USVSU from 2001 to 2004 in Sydney. Rissanen completed a practice-based Ph.D. on zero waste fashion design at UTS in 2013. As an artist, he has focused on the humanity of labor, politics, and love through installation, performance and cross-stitched poetry. Rissanen co-curated the exhibitions Fashioning Now in 2009 and Yield in 2011, and he has co-published two books on fashion and sustainability. Rissanen has lived in the US since 2010 and he is full-time faculty at Parsons School of Design in New York.
Website:
https://timorissanen.com/
Instagram:
@timorissanen