Rosie Broadhead is a textile designer and researcher specialising in biomaterials for fashion industry applications. Founder of material innovation platform SKIN SERIES, and Textile Scientist at Ghent University. Her research focuses on the intersection between skin and clothing, the textile microbiome and how we can influence the body through functional materials. Rosie is a graduate of Central Saint Martins’ MA ‘Material Futures’ course in 2019, and has a background as a designer and Head of Sustainability at sportswear brand Perfect Moment, R&D at Rapha, Thom Browne and Aitor Throup. This research into the future of fashion has resulted in peer reviewed papers and exhibitions during Salone del Mobile Milano, Dutch Design Week, London Design Festival, The Design Museum London and publications in Forbes, British Vogue, i-D and The New York Times. As a reflection on the fashion and bio-design fields she co-founded, ‘Surface Tension’ platform centred around realising the positive potential of materials on the body.