Holly McQuillan is Assistant Professor in Multimorphic Textile Systems TU Delft, where her research explores the design and development of complex interconnected fibre-yarn-textile-form systems as a means for transforming how we design, manufacture, use, and recover textile-based forms. Oriented through a holistic lens, her research builds on her experience developing and disseminating the field of zero waste fashion design, and advocates for a new understanding of the relationship between designer and system, material, and form to conceptualise and prototype alternative futures.

For over 15 years Holly has been investigating methods of ameliorating the negative impacts of the fashion and textile industry through holistic design-driven methods and system practices. She was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand for 15 years, and in 2021 received her PhD from the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Boras. Holly joined the faculty in 2021 as Assistant Professor where she hopes to bring a sustainable textile and textile-form perspective to the research and education undertaken here.