About

Rachel Anderson is an educator, fashion designer, maker, and visual artist in Lubbock, Texas with over 10 years of experience working in the fashion industry in Dallas, Houston, and New York City and a 20 year academic background at Texas Tech University. Her education background includes Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. During her masters studies at AAU she trained in 3D design under Vivienne Westwood draper, Rob Curry and tambour beading and embroidery with Robert Haven of the Royal School of Needlework, London. She is currently Associate Professor in Apparel Design and Manufacturing at Texas Tech University.

Her creative work intertwines around the worlds of fashion ready-to-wear, mixed media avant-garde accessories and fashion, and wearable art. Her artistic processes involve the hand processes of draping and patternmaking, hand and digital textile design, and building of garments and accessories using non-traditional or re-purposed materials for gallery exhibition or traditional fabrics for collection development for contemporary ready-to-wear. She has collaborated on textile design and mixed media fashion and art garments with interior designers, sculptors, printmakers, painters, and mixed media artists respectively. Her solo and collaborative works have been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally through art gallery exhibitions, fashion shows, and academic conferences.

She has written curriculum and filmed educational videos in apparel construction, patternmaking, draping, and design for national high school fashion design certifications, served as a consultant for academic fashion curriculum across the US, and served as a technical design and patternmaking consultant for the fashion industry. Favorite designers are Christian Siriano, Thom Browne, Valentino, Walter Van Beirendonck, Alexander McQueen, and Carolina Herrera.