Simona Segre-Reinach is a cultural anthropologist and fashion scholar. She is Professor Alma Mater at the University of Bologna, where she taught Fashion Studies from 2011 to 2025.
She graduated in Anthropology from the University of Milan, with a dissertation on Haitian Vodou, and later earned an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.
Before fully dedicating herself to academic research in fashion studies, she worked as a consultant in communication and socio-cultural change at GPF & Associati, where she was a partner and led projects for clients in the fashion industry.