Annalisa Dunn is a senior textiles designer with many years working in the luxury market. She has a variety of experience, from running her own label Cooperative Designs in the 2000s, to working for international brands, heritage brands, as well as supporting and collaborating with many independent brands. She also part time lectures in textiles at London College of Fashion.

Lisa Salama is an Embroidery specialist, working with multiple luxury fashion brands across the broad spectrum of hand, machine and computerised embroidery design. Alongside her design work, she is a BA and MA Lecturer at various universities, believing passionately in the value of passing on relevant industry knowledge to students during their university education, and uni-leavers freshly entering the creative industries.