Dr Harriette Richards is a Lecturer in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is a cultural studies scholar whose work focuses on ethical and sustainable fashion systems, consumer culture, and fashion in the settler colonial imagination.
Harriette is co-founder of the Critical Fashion Studies research group and co-host of the Critical Fashion Studies podcast. Her work has been published in a range of journals including Cultural Studies, Gender, Work & Organization, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Australian Feminist Studies and the International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. She has also been published in the edited collections Rethinking Fashion Globalization (Bloomsbury 2021) and Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). In 2021, she co-edited the ‘Fashion Futures’ special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies with Professor Natalya Lusty and Dr Rimi Khan.
Harriette received her BA (Hons, first class) in International Relations (2012) and her MA in Sociology (2014) from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies from the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University (2018). In 2022, she was awarded the RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles ‘Research Achievement Award.’
