Teacher
Benilde Reis

Resume

Benilde is a Fashion Design Professor and researcher at Lusófona University. She holds a B.Des. & M.Des. in Fashion Design (2011 & 2013), both from the University of Beira Interior and with the dissertation ¿Contemporary Tailoring: Handmade Tailoring and Industrial Tailoring a Case Study¿. She has fashion experience as a pattern-cutting assistant in the menswear department at Twintex. B2B experience working as a fashion design researcher at U.MAKE.ID project (B2B online platform). Temporary lecturer in Fashion Design courses at UBI (2016-2020). 2018-2020: fashion design researcher in TEXBOOST project: 'New Materials and Advanced Use of Natural Fibers: New fabrics for high-performance applications based on natural fibres', applying wool in textile fabrics for fashion products in activewear. 2020: PhD in Fashion Design, with the research ¿Gender Issues in Genderless Clothing: Trends vs Paradigm¿, an interdisciplinary study in fashion design with support from sociology and consumer behaviour. Since 2021, she has been Assistant Professor at Lusófona University in Fashion Design and Production, in Bachelor's and Master's Degrees. Her research area is in Genderless Clothing, 3D - Digital and Virtual construction of Clothes and Patternmaking/Cutting considering genderless clothing and digital fashion. She has a personal project called "The Unafashionable Worth of Fashion", where she writes about current and past fashion issues.

Graus

• Ensino secundário
  Design, Ceramics and Sculpture
• Licenciatura
  Fashion Design
• Mestrado
  Fashion Design
• Doutoramento
  Fashion Design (association)
• Outros
  University Teaching
• Outros
  Communicating on Social Media
• Outros
  Learn Marvelous Designer
• Outros
  3D clothing design with Marvelous Designer
• Outros
  Clo3D for beginners
• Outros
  Fashion Journalism Online Short Course
• Outros
  Fashion as Design
• Outros
  UNDERSTANDING FASHION: From Business to Culture
• Outros
  Data Analysis with SPSS
• Outros
  CREATIVE WRITING COURSE
• Outros
  ENGLISH LANGUAGE - INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
• Outros
  PATTERNMAKING DESIGN COURSE ASSISTED BY COMPUTER MODARIS
• Outros
  CAP - CERTIFICATE OF PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS
• Outros
  Notions of Industrial Cutting
• Outros
  Foreign Language - English
• Outros
  VStitcher 101

Publicações

Artigo em revista

• 2024-02, Inclusividade no Design de Moda e Sustentabilidade Social - Projeto Finally Fashion, IJFMA: International Journal of Film and Media Arts
• 2020-06-02, The Fabrics Design Influence in Real and Simulated Drape of Clothing, KnE Engineering
• 2017, U.MAKE.ID - A DIGITAL SOURCING PLATFORM PROJECT FOR THE FASHION BUSINESS: A THEORETICAL STUDY, Global and National Business Theories and Practice: Bridging the Past with the Future

Tese / Dissertação

• 2020, Doutoramento, Questões de Género no Vestuário Sem Género
• 2013, Mestrado, Alfaiataria na contemporaneidade: alfaiataria artesanal e alfaiataria industrial, um estudo de caso

Capítulo de livro

• 2025, Functional Wool Fabric Design Optimizing the Comfort of Activewear Clothing
• 2025, Analysing the Characteristics of Genderless Clothing: A Qualitative Approach with MaxQDA Software
• 2024, Functional Wool Fabric Design Optimizing the Comfort of Activewear Clothing, Advances in Design, Music and Arts III: 9th Meeting of Research in Music, Arts and Design, EIMAD 2024, June 27-28, 2024, Springer Series in “Design and Innovation”
• 2024, Analysing the Characteristics of Genderless Clothing: A Qualitative Approach with MaxQDA Software, Advances in Design, Music and Arts III: 9th Meeting of Research in Music, Arts and Design, EIMAD 2024, June 27-28, 2024, Springer Series in “Design and Innovation”
• 2023, Women's Tailoring in Contemporary Time: The Deconstruction of Classic
• 2023, The Paradigm of Patternmaking Teaching - Draping as a Starting Point
• 2023, Studying Genderless Fashion Design: Triangulation Method in Fashion Research
• 2023, New Ways of Ageless Fashion: Project Development in Class Context, Advances in Fashion and Design Research II, 1, Springer Nature Switzerland
• 2023, Gender Issues in Genderless Clothing: A Theoretical Framework in Fashion Interdisciplinary Research
• 2023, Fashion Design - Sustainability and Technologies - The Carlos Gil Case
• 2022, Functional Design of Tri-Laminated Wool Fabrics Improving Comfort Properties, Journal of Biomimetics, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering , 57, 1, Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
• 2021, Usability Attributes for Fashion Design of Functional Wool Leisurewear, Advances in Design, Music and Arts , 9, Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• 2021, Design of Fashionable and Functional Tri-laminated Wool Fabrics for Leisurewear Considering Drape and Touch, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer International Publishing
• 2021, Design of Fashionable and Functional Tri-Laminated Wool Fabrics for Leisurewear Considering Comfort, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer International Publishing
• 2020, The relation of textile aesthetics with the development of genderless clothing
• 2020, Technology-Driven Sustainability: Innovation in the Fashion Supply Chain , Global and national business theories and practice: Bridging the past with the future, Palgrave Macmillan
• 2020, Digital Technology for Global Supply Chain in Fashion: A Contribution for Sustainability Development
• 2020, Clothing for leisurewear with fashionable and functional wool fabrics, Textiles, Identity and Innovation: In Touch, CRC Press
• 2018, Genderless clothing issues in fashion, Textiles, Identity and Innovation: Design the Future, CRC Press
• 2018, Analysis of Attributes in Unisex and Genderless Clothing, Reverse Design: A Current Scientific Vision From the International Fashion and Design Congress, CRC Press

Edição de livro

• 2025, Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Website

• 2021-04, The Unfashionable Worth of Fashion, Through this personal project, I intend to write more than just about fashion, but what leads to certain fashion items being icons, eventually writing about political-social and artistic events that influenced and continue to influence fashion., https://theworthoffashion.com/

Artigo em conferência

• Women wears men’s clothing: a study case for a niche market, 2nd Symposium of the FibEnTech Research Unit: Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies
• U.MAKE.ID - A Digital Sourcing Platform Project: A Theoretical Approach, 2nd Symposium of the FibEnTech Research Unit: Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies
• U.MAKE.ID - A DIGITAL SOURCING PLATFORM PROJECT FOR THE FASHION BUSINESS: A THEORETICAL STUDY, 10th Annual Conference of the EuroMed-Academy-of-Business
• Tailoring in contemporary times Handmade tailoring and industrial tailoring a study case, 3rd International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Marketing & Consumer Behaviour (ICIEMC) – 2016
• Innovation And Social Responsability In Fashion Design Training, 5th International Conference On Global Fashion - Tradition and Innovation: Challenges for Fashion and Luxury in the 21st century
• Fashionable and functional wool fabrics: clothing design for outdoor activities, 3rd Symposium of the FibEnTech - Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies Research Unit
• Craftsmanship and Tradition Tailoring in Contemporary Fashion, Global Fashion Conference
• Ambivalência do vestuário sem género na moda, I CONGRESSO IBÉRICO DE SEMIÓTICA: MODAS, MODOS, MANEIRAS
• 2024-11-11, Oportunidades no ensino de modelagem e Confeção nas licenciaturas em design de Moda em Portugal pela perspectiva dos Alunos, CImode 2024
• 2022-11-29, The Contribution of 3D Virtual Fashion Product Development to the Sustainability and Productivity of the Textile and Apparel Industry, ICEUBI22 - International Congress on Engineering
• 2022-11-04, SANTA CLARA TRAPOLOGY A CASE OF A TRADITIONAL TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY, Fashion&Sustainability
• 2018-10-03, U.MAKE.ID Fashion Sourcing Platform Project, 1st International Textile Design Conference

Resumo em conferência

• 2024-01-31, Simpósio da Moda e a ITV, Simpósio do Ensino da Moda e a ITV
• 2023-01-20, Simpósio do Ensino da Moda e a ITV #01 ¿ Formação de Talentos para a Fileira da Moda, Simpósio do Ensino da Moda e a ITV
• 2023, TECNOLOGIAS EMERGENTES NO ENSINO DE CONFEÇÃO DO VESTUÁRIO, II Simpósio Internacional de Gestão da Inovação e Transformação Digital -SIGITD 2023
• 2022, Santa Clara trapologia: A case of a traditional textile, FL Conference | Fashion & Sustainability
• 2022, Inclusiveness in fashion design and social sustainability: Finally Fashion Project, FL Conference | Fashion & Sustainability
• 2021, Design of Fashionable, Functional and Comfortable Tri-Laminated Wool Fabrics for Leisurewear, Autex 2021 - Unfolding the Future

Poster em conferência

• 2024-11-18, O ensino da modelagem e confeção nas universidades: um estudo sobre a percepção dos alunos de Design de Moda, Encontro UBI CIência e Inovação - Semana da Ciência e Tecnologia
• 2022-05, Engineering design of laminated wool fabrics for functional leisurewear considering mechanical and comfort performance, iTechStyle Summit ‘22 – International Conference on Textiles and Clothing
• 2018-02-28, Digital Sourcing Platforms: A Plus for the Fashion Design and Industry Regarding the Circular Economy in the Fashion Context, iTech Style Summit - International Conference on Textiles and Clothing
• 2018, Unisex Clothes + Androgynous Bodies = Genderless Fashion, 3rd Symposium of the FibEnTech - Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies Research Unit

Outra produção

• 2023-07-21, Over&Out - Desfile com os trabalhos dos estudantes de Design e Produção de Moda, Over&Out - Desfile com os trabalhos dos estudantes de Design e Produção de Moda
• 2023-07-08, Lérias: A Arte das Linhas, Mostra de trabalhos desenvolvidos pelos estudantes do Curso de Design e Produção de Moda
• 2022-11, FL Conference | Fashion & Sustainability - Upcycling Expo Catalog