Profession / role:

Lecturer. Fashion and Clothing Design

Company / organisation:

Kuopio Academy of Design

Website (if you have one):

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=78178565&trk=nav_respon...

My primary role in relation to fashion is:

Tutor

I am looking to discover or buy

Networking, contacts

About me / About business or organisation:

I work as a lecturer of fashion and clothing design in Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Kuopio Academy of Design. Previously I had own fashion label for ten years. So as a fashion designer as well the design educator I have had the sustainable perspective to her work since the beginning. My ambition is to develop fashion more sustainable by acting in local and international networks.

Career history / Company history:

lecturer
Savonia University of Applied Sciences
September 2001 – Present
Fashion and Clothing Design Department

Founder, designer
Design Sirpa Ryynänen
January 1992 – December 2008
Fashion design

Artistic skills and competences
Exhibitions and fashion shows
September 1985 – December 2002 (17 years 4 months)
Several in Finland 1985 -2002
Stockholm, Sweden 1990, 1993
Paris, France 1991
Dusseldorf; Germany 1990
Berlin, Germany 1988