Benilde is a Fashion Design Professor and researcher at Lusófona University. She holds a B.Des. & M.Des. in Fashion Design (2011 & 2013), both from the University of Beira Interior and with the dissertation 'Contemporary Tailoring: Handmade Tailoring and Industrial Tailoring a Case Study'. She has fashion experience as a pattern-cutting assistant in the menswear department at Twintex. B2B experience working as a fashion design researcher at U.MAKE.ID project (B2B online platform). Temporary lecturer in Fashion Design courses at UBI (2016-2020). 2018-2020: fashion design researcher in TEXBOOST project: 'New Materials and Advanced Use of Natural Fibres: New fabrics for high-performance applications based on natural fibres', applying wool in textile fabrics for fashion products in activewear. 2020: PhD in Fashion Design, with the research 'Gender Issues in Genderless Clothing: Trends vs Paradigm', an interdisciplinary study in fashion design with support from sociology and consumer behaviour. Since 2021, she has been Assistant Professor at Lusófona University in Fashion Design and Production, in Bachelor's and Master's Degrees. Her research area is in Genderless Clothing, 3D - Digital and Virtual construction of Clothes and Patternmaking/Cutting, considering genderless clothing and digital fashion. She has a personal project called "The Unafashionable Worth of Fashion", where she writes about current and past fashion issues.