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BF+DA Receives $500K From Brooklyn Borough
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Friday 5: Five Stories That Changed The Way We Think About Fashion
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Sustainable Fashion Roadmap: Low Water Use Fibers
When thinking about low water use fibers, have you considered…
Algorithms Are Set to Replace Designers in the Fashion Industry
Quartz’s Marc Bain writes in “Amazon has an algorithm that…
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Celebrate National Thrift Store Day (Today) With 15 Seasoned Thrifters!
Today is National Thrift Store Day! Join donateNYC in celebrating…
Sustainable Fashion Roadmap: Low Energy Fibers
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Texworld Looks to Water Conservation in Fashion Industry
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A Q&A With Mimaki on Environmentally Friendly Digital Printing
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Sustainable Fashion Roadmap: Anticipated Lifespan
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Google Digitizes Fashion on ‘We Wear Culture’ Platform
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Project Reefstone Uses Data-Generative Garments Showcasing Ocean Warming
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Futureworks Shops Opens Access to 9 Advanced Manufacturing Spaces
Prototyping in New York City just got a whole lot…
Last Chance Gallery Harnesses Neon For Endangered Animals
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The New Denim Project Takes on a Circular Economy
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5 Labor Rights Initiatives on International Workers’ Day
On May 1, 1886, more than 300,000 workers and labor…
‘Shoetopia’ Makes 3D Sneakers Biodegradable
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BF+DA Alumna Blair Lauren Brown Launches Ethical Gold Collective
This Friday, April 28th, from 4:00-4:45 p.m., join Brooklyn Fashion…
Activist Frau Fiber Memorializes Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire With Installation
According to History.com, On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist…
The 2017 EcoChic Design Award Opens to USA
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Microplastic Facts: Protect Watersheds From Apparel & Beauty Products
Riverkeeper, New York’s biggest clean water advocate was created to…
INTERVIEW: RiverBlue Documentary Director on Denim Pollution
We caught up with Riverblue film Director David McIlvride, to…
AUDIO-The Trump Effect: Immigration, Apparel Manufacturing and the Environment
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Tabii Just, Caravan Stylist Studio & BF+DA at NYFW Pop Up Atelier
Tabii Just and Caravan Stylist Studio have partnered for a…
BF+DA Knitwear Apprenticeship Open!
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Top 10 Morning Rituals For Entrepreneurs
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2016: The Year That Politics Made Fashion Brands Pick Sides
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Could 100 Tons of Cotton Equal a 45 Minute Flight On a 747?
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Support NYC Ethical Fashion & Design Pop-Ups This Holiday Season
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Adidas Uses Synthetic Spider Silk For Biodegradable Sneakers
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2016 BF+DA Positive Impact Awards in Pictures!
We had a blast at the 2016 BF+DA Positive…
Ai Weiwei Fills NYC’s Deitch Projects With Thousands of Refugee Garments
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BOOK GIVEAWAY: Oaxaca Stories in Cloth
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BF+DA Based Weaving Hand Reweaves PS1 Courtyard at Ace Hotel
BF+DA based business Weaving Hand is always up to something…
Call for Designers! Holiday Gift Market @ the BF+DA
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QUOTED: The Falling of Fashionopolis
“But as the pillars of the inner temples of fashionopolis…
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NYC Fashion M.A.D.E. Awards the BF+DA a Knitwear Grant
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Andrew Bolton, The Met’s Costume Institute Curator Embraces Future Fashion
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Outdoor Brand Orin Lets Internet Decide on Price & Traceability
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Rio Olympians Suit Up in High-Tech Apparel
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Etology Embraces a Circular Economy For Fashion With Information Tech
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Investing in Teen Girls for World Population Day
In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development…
Project JUST, Raising Funds to Support Research Into 100 Clothing Brands
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BF+DA’s Unreasonable Women Launches The Retouchers Accord
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Patagonia Announces Success with Fair Trade Program
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Wearable Experiments’ Football Fan Shirt Connects Players to People
Wearable Experiments and Billie Whitehouse just announced the European launch…
Brooklyn Dyer Katrin Reifeiss Tells Stories With Color
Katrin Reifeiss Voyage Dress in Black Brooklyn natural dyer Katrin…
Bathing Suits the Price of a Latte?
As the weather warms up and fast fashion chains keep…
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BF+DA’s Awl & Sundry Tailors Shoe For Seattle Seahawks’ Kam Chancellor
In a recent press release the Brooklyn Fashion+Design Accelerator’s Awl…
Are Robots The New Seamstresses?
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Fashion Innovation Alliance, Connecting Leading Voices in Fashion+Tech Policy
Based in Washington D.C., The Fashion Innovation Alliance serves as…
Safety Wearables: Armor For the ‘Industrial Athlete’
The Crated, Strong Arm Technologies, and Bon Bouton by Flextra…
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New Patagonia Film Addresses Industrial Hemp Legalization in the USA
Patagonia states in a press release that in 2016 alone,…
Video: Pratt Fashion Senior Addresses Fast Fashion in Final Thesis Collection
According to the Pratt Institute site, fashion design student Margaret…
5 Reasons Fashion Brands (Not Their Suppliers) Need To Be More Responsible
Specializing in ethical fashion, Source My Garment is an apparel…
The High School of Art & Design and BF+DA Partner For Spring Fashion Show
The BF+DA recently hosted the The High School of Art…
10 Billion Items of Connected Clothing, A New Mine for Sustainability Data
Forbes writes that some 10 billion products in the apparel,…
A&E Launches Color Identification Mobile App
Continuing its 125-year tradition in textile manufacturing, American & Efird…
AEG and Not Just a Label Partner For Fabric Care Education
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BF+DA An Honoree For MAKINGOODESIGN Awards
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Join Us Wednesday At The FashTech London Summit!
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Live Chat on The Guardian: ‘Can Tech Give the Fashion Industry a Sustainability Makeover?’
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INTERVIEW: Shifting the Myths About Tomboy Dressing
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The Textile Industry Looks to Tech for Revival
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Is The Next Industrial Revolution 3D Centric?
TechCrunch writes: “3D printing is making its way forward in…
BF+DA Research Fellow Maddy Maxey Gets a Today Show Close Up!
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Ex Feral Childe Designer New Fashion Director of Bespokery
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