PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS
Rissanen, T. & McQuillan, H. (2023). Zero Waste Fashion Design. 2nd edition. Bloomsbury, London.
Rissanen, T. & McQuillan, H. (2016). Zero Waste Fashion Design, Bloomsbury, London.
Gwilt, A. & Rissanen, T. (eds.) (2011). Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes, Earthscan, London, UK.
OTHER BOOKS
The Fashion Praxis Collective (2017). Animal Laborans. The Labor of Fashion, SelfPassage, New York & Gothenburg.
The Fashion Praxis Collective (2014). The Fashion Condition, SelfPassage, New York & Gothenburg.
McQuillan, H. & Rissanen, T. (2011). Yield: Making Fashion Without Waste, exhibition catalogue, The Textile Arts Center, New York, USA. Free download HERE.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Rissanen, T. (2023). “All that cloth can carry (on a queer body)”, in R. Filippello & I. Parkins (eds.) Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress. Palgrave MacMillan.
McQuillan, H. & Rissanen, T. (2020). “Mind-Body-Garment-Cloth”, co-authored with , in K. Townsend, A. Briggs-Goode & R. Solomon (eds.) Crafting Anatomies, Bloomsbury Academic, London
Rissanen, T. & Sansone, L. (2019). “Design Students in Sustainable Systems”, in, K. Fletcher, L. St Pierre & M. Tham (eds.) Design and Nature: A Partnership, Earthscan from Routledge, London, pp. 153-159.
Rissanen, T. (2015). “Zero Waste Fashion Design”, in J. Hethorn & C. Ulasewicz (eds.) Sustainable Fashion: What’s Next? Second edition. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 179-203.
Rissanen, T. (2015). “The fashion system through a zero-waste lens”, in K. Fletcher & M. Tham (eds.) Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion, Routledge, London, pp. 201-209.
Rissanen, T. (2011). “Designing Endurance”, in A. Gwilt & T. Rissanen (eds.) Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes, Earthscan, London, UK, pp. 127-138.
Rissanen, T. (2008). “Fashion Creation Without the Creation of Fabric Waste”, in J. Hethorn & C. Ulasewicz (eds.) Sustainable Fashion: Why Now? Fairchild Books, New York, USA, pp. 184-206.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Rissanen, T. (2025). “Gear Maketh the Leatherman? A Perspective on Leather Cultures and Masculinities.” APRIA Journal.
Boersma, M., Mellick, Z., Payne, A., Coneybeer, J., Maguire, R., O’Brien, E., & Rissanen, T. (2025). “Beyond the farm gate: addressing labour and human right issues occurring downstream in the textiles and apparel value chain.” Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal.
Alevato, I., Rissanen, T., & Lie, S. (2024). “From bio-based to fossil-based to bio-based: Exploring the potential of hemp as a material for next-gen fur.” Fashion Highlight, (4), 108-117.
Sadokierski, Z. and Rissanen, T. (2023). “Thinking-with Regent Honeyeaters: on homes and futures for a critically endangered species”. Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, issue 8.
Odabasi, S., Von Busch, O., Moon, C., Sansone, L. & Rissanen, T. (2022). “Transition Design and Fashion”. Fashion Practice, pp 1-19.
Sadokierski, Z. and Rissanen, T., (2022). “Drawing The Extinction Crisis”. TRACEY Journal. 16(1), pp. 1-19.
Niinimäki, K., Peters, G., Dahlbo, H., Perry, P., Rissanen, T. and Gwilt, A., (2020). “The environmental price of fast fashion”. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1(4), pp.189-200.
Rissanen, T. (2017). “Possibility in Fashion Design Education – a Manifesto”, Utopian Studies, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 528-546.
Rissanen, T. (2017). “Towards flow: cross-stitching poetry”, Craft Research, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 117-124.
Rissanen, T. (2013). “Zero-waste vaatesuunnittelu ja sen merkitys muodin luomisen tulevaisuuteen”, Futura, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 45-53.
Rissanen, T, (2013). “Inlaid Fantasies: the textiles of Andreea Mandrescu”, Craft Research, vol, 4, no. 2, pp. 265-275.
McQuillan, H., Rissanen, T. & Roberts, J. (2013). “The Cutting Circle: How making challenges design”, Research Journal Of Textiles And Apparel, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 39-49.
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PhD THESIS
Rissanen, T. (2013). Zero-waste fashion design: A study at the intersection of cloth, fashion design and pattern cutting, PhD Thesis, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney. Download HERE.