Educator, Designer, and Professor in Fashion Design with research on the focus of a sustainable lifestyle promoting the era of secondhand clothing thrifting and the rise of repair.

Currently as a professor in the Fashion Design Dept. at NIFT Mumbai, Patricia's research, design, and teaching practices explore participatory and transformation design to realize fashion as a strong tool for sustainability in action, in lifestyle, and in the fashion business.  Patricia’s research and teaching practice draw on long-held design practices that connect fashion’s relational ecological, social, economic, and cultural dimensions. Engaging involved and transformative design practices, her work shapes and contributes to the field of Fashion Design for Sustainability.

She focuses on understanding the design processes, pattern making, and surface creation for fashion. Patricia’s work addresses contemporary society - how can sustainability be compatible with the seemingly great demand of apparel consumers, understanding Indian consumers' approach to sustainable fashion, and examining connections between fast fashion and social and customary systems, in the context of sustainability.