Sandy Black is Professor in Fashion & Textiles Design & Technology at London College of Fashion (LCF), University of the Arts London, with particular focus on inter-disciplinary research and the importance of design in today’s context of sustainability. She developed the Interrogating Fashion research group in 2005, (a Designing for the 21st Century EPSRC/AHRC funded initiative), and is currently leading a project Considerate Design at LCF with Cambridge Engineering Design Centre to assist designers in developing personalised, more sustainable fashion products to ultimately reduce fashion consumption but increase fashion delight.

Sandy has extensive experience in both industry and education. She ran her Sandy Black fashion knitwear and knitting kits designer label for many years, selling internationally, and went on to direct Fashion and Textiles postgraduate and undergraduate programmes at University of Brighton and then LCF. 

Sandy writes and lectures on the intersections of textiles, fashion and knitwear design with emerging technology, science and cultural contexts for both specialist academic and general audiences. She is Director of the Centre for Fashion Science at LCF and is regularly invited as a lecturer and conference speaker.

Recent books include: 
Eco Chic: the Fashion Paradox (Black Dog Publishing 2008,);
Fashioning Fabrics: contemporary textiles in fashion, (Black Dog Publishing 2006) ;
Knitwear in Fashion (Thames and Hudson 2002, 2005)