A.A. in Fashion Design, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (2013)B.A. in Design, University of California, Davis (2016)M.F.A. in Design, University of California Davis (2018)
Christine works as a freelance Designer in the Northern
California Bay Area. She has worked with such companies as Cari
Borja Clothesmaker, Community Homework, Ink+Ivy, as well as with
private clients for cosplay design and construction orders. Her
work has been featured by Marvel Comics, and seen on such sites
as Vanity Fair, LA Weekly, the Daily Mail UK, and YouTube.
Christine has worked as an instructor at Arizona State University
in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and here at UC
Davis in Design. She is interested in sustainability, and how to
reduce and reuse waste from the fashion and textile industries.
Her recent research has been exploring use of natural dyes, zero
waste fashion design and creative fabric scrap reuse. Her current
research is focused on increasing sustainability in cosplay and
finding tactics that can also be carried over into the fashion
industry.
Over 40 students and Department of Design lecturers Rose Kelly
and Christine Knobel from DES70: Introduction to Textile
Structures are participating in The 25
Million Stitches Project, a response to the global
refugee crisis.
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A.A. in Fashion Design, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (2013)B.A. in Design, University of California, Davis (2016)M.F.A. in Design, University of California Davis (2018)
