Nan Turner is a fashion professional with extensive experience working as a clothing designer in New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Columbus, Ohio.
In 2010, Nan returned to her alma mater, the University of California, Davis, and earned a master’s degree in textiles and clothing. Her thesis, Deprivation Fashion: Creative Sustainability Inspired by Clothing Restrictions During WWII, proposes that the current generation can learn to reduce over-consumption, curtail excess, and increase sustainability through analyzing the creative practices developed to deal with war time clothing restrictions.
Nan has taught the following courses at UC Davis, Sacramento State University and the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in San Francisco:
- Fashion Marketing
- Textile Science
- Social Psychology of Fashion
- Fashion Illustration
- Introduction to the Fashion Industry
- Textiles and Apparel in the Global Economy
Nan teaches Fashion Marketing in Paris during July for UC Davis's Study Abroad.