Nicole Rose Al Rais is a fashion designer and founder of NICILIAN, a regenerative luxury label made in Dubai. As a PhD in fashion and material culture, she studies how fashion, artificial intelligence, and femininity are remaking one another under platform ‍culture.

As a creator, she works in the other direction. Rather than treating fashion as as subject to explain, she lives it out: culture, taste, and the daily act of getting dressed become the place those ideas get tested. Her perspective is shaped by her American upbringing, Emirati family, and years spent in the UK.