Spirit of Luxury and Design - A Perspective from Contemporary Fashion and Jewellery (Broché)

Jie Sun in the National Distinguished Expert (Awarded by the Ministry of Education of China), Professor of Design at the College of Design and Innovation (D&I), Tongji University in Shanghai ; Head of New Center of Contemporary Jewellry and Fashion Culture (NoCC) ; Deputy-Chairman at Art and Design Academic Committee in Tongji University ; Chairman and Curator at Triple Parade International Biennial Organization Committee ; Director of SxV Museum of Modern Arts in Qingdao (SV MoMA) ; Director at the Institute of Design and Creative Industries in Guangzhou (CDC).
Porf.Sun is one of the most influential experts on fashion, jewellery and design in the Greater China. Over the past few years, he has worked on major collaborative and curatorial projects worldwide, actively engaged in both European and Asian design culture. Porf.SUN advocates that by adhering to the concept "Fashion & Design" innovation and integration of culture, fashion, lifestyle, design, aesthetics, and business, the design should be understood within the context of contemporary, humanized experience, and sustainable development of regional consumption and industrial upgrading.
In the aspect of social innovation, he proposed an innovative theoretical model driven by design and oriented by the development of urban cultural innovation : "A Model of Cultural Activity Driven by Art and Design." Elizabeth Fischer is professor in charge of the Fashion, Jewellery, and Accessories Design Department at Me HEAD-Geneva University of art and design. She was responsible for opening the BA study program to industry and to jewellery related fields such as product and accessory design.
She contributed to the launch of the MA study program and was the chair in watch design in 2014. Holder of an MA in art history specialized in the interpretation of dress, textiles, and jewellery in paintings, she has worked in education and with museums as a sclentific collabo-rator and curator for over 25 years. She is member of the scien-tific committee of MuMode Swiss fashion Museum, in charge of defining its new cultural and scientific program (Yverdon-les-Bains).
Professor Fischer lectures and writes on the cultural history of dress in the broad sense-fashion, jewellery, accessories, body ornaments, and textiles. Her research at HEAD-Geneva explores the relationship of the contemporary body with accessories and dress as mil as gender issues. She is scientific consultant on various other research projects at Head-Geneva.