Alisia Wood is a Berlin based fashion designer with a transdisciplinary, hands on work ethic. In 2016 she completed a state certified clothing technical assistant diploma and in June 2021 she graduated from HTW Berlin - University of applied Sciences, within the culture and design department, with an academic degree bachelor of arts in fashion design. Originally from Krefeld ‘the city of velvet and silk’ in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which once was home to the artist Joseph Beuys and the designers Thierry Hermès and Jil Sander during her textile-engineering studies. Wood's heritage has become an influential role in her design development as well as in her interest in sociological structures and various subcultures she has experienced during her lifetime.