Gabrielle Shiner-Hill

Gabby is passionate about co-creation and innovation and aims to shape the future of the fashion industry with sustainable and efficient solutions. As a co-founder of Bureau 555, she has worked with brands and manufacturers to transition to 3D sampling and digital materials, leveraging 20 years of experience in design and manufacturing, and expertise in software simulation and digital literacy.

Gabby is one of the Watershed Fellows in Residence as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme. She has spent 10 months in residence at The Studio in Bath working with the Fashion Museum. This is a practice based fellowship exploring the digitisation of existing fashion assets and how these can be implemented within the digital realm. In this talk Gabby will discuss selecting the Dress of the Year to be digitised, the different techniques and technologies she used from £20k hand held scanning devices to just your smartphone and the possible outcomes to help increase the accessibility and usability of the Fashion Museum Bath's 100,000 piece collection.

Gabby previously held the post of Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Fashion Buying and Brand Management course at Ravensbourne University London and is the founder of shinerhilldesign consultancy. Trained in Textile Design at Central St.Martins she continues to teach at the University of Arts London and the Victoria and Albert Museum leading the Digital Fashion Course.