Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA is an award-winning design historian who works at University of Technology Sydney. His inter-disciplinary research examines the past, present and future of critical fashion as well as many other aspects of design. For a decade he was also Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University where he worked to establish the dignity of this topic in the European university system. More recently he was Academy of Finland (FiDIPro) Distinguished Professor, Aalto University (2014-18) for ‘Costume Methodologies’. His many publications include the award-winning ‘The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives’, 2010 (with G. Riello); and ‘Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources, Renaissance to the Present Day’ (4 Vols. 2009). His monograph ‘‘Pretty Gentlemen’: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-century Fashion World’ was published by Yale University Press in 2018: Marina Warner named it a ‘Book of the Year’. McNeil writes for major exhibitions including Sydney Jewish Museum (‘Dressing Sydney’), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (‘Reigning Men’) and Kunsthaus Zurich (‘Fashion Drive’). He won a UTS Human Rights Award in 2018 for his work on LGBTQI visual culture. He is Past President of the AAANZ representing Art History in the region.