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Friday 5: Five Stories That Changed The Way We Think About Fashion
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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
Project JUST recently announced that it is raising $30,000 to…
BF+DA’s Unreasonable Women Launches The Retouchers Accord
Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator Venture Fellow Unreasonable Women, an…
Patagonia Announces Success with Fair Trade Program
Patagonia recently announced that Apparel workers who make Patagonia clothing…
Friday 5: Five Stories That Changed The Way We Think About Fashion
Every week we put together our Friday 5 -five stories…
Your Clothes Are Poisoning The Oceans
We’ve reported on how the fashion industry is impacting our…
Friday 5: Five Stories That Changed The Way We Think
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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…
Friday 5: Five Stories That Changed The Way We Think
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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?
According to Business of Fashion, robots just might be the…
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…
Lauren Slowik of Shapeways’ Ten Favorite 3D Scanning Projects
Lauren Slowik at the Brooklyn Fashion+Design Accelerator’s Tech Tuesday It…
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…
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
Image: AEG With news that thousands of plastic microfibers are…
BF+DA An Honoree For MAKINGOODESIGN Awards
MAKINGOODESIGN is a collaboration between Design With Benefits and AIA’s…
Join Us Wednesday At The FashTech London Summit!
Launched in 2014, FashTech has produced events and curated discussions…
Live Chat on The Guardian: ‘Can Tech Give the Fashion Industry a Sustainability Makeover?’
Join experts from the Brooklyn Fashion+Design Accelerator, Patagonia, FashTech London,…
INTERVIEW: Shifting the Myths About Tomboy Dressing
Kirrin Finch is a conscientious clothing company, founded by Brooklyn-based…
The Textile Industry Looks to Tech for Revival
As the textile industry looks to tech for a modern…
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!
The TODAY show just launched a special series in honor…
Sweden’s #Sharewear Hopes To Help Lower Carbon Footprint
According to Fast Company, VisitSweden and the Swedish Institute recently…
Ex Feral Childe Designer New Fashion Director of Bespokery
While the fashion industry tries to figure out how to…
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The BF+DA is looking for a Receptionist! Could that be you?…
Evolving Fabrics Might Just Lead Fashion’s Tech Future
Lauren Bowker and her studio THE UNSEEN have come up…
Paper Clothing: A Look Back to Look Forward
Image via GOOD Magazine and Sera Lindsey Good Magazine writer…
Artist Libby O’Bryan Crowdsources A Blankets Worth
Image: Libby O’Bryan What is a product’s worth to you?…
Best Fashion Books of 2015
Colin McDowell of Business of Fashion shares what he considers…
Ghostworkers are Making Your Clothes
Marc Bain of Quartz writes on “A huge underclass of…
One Stop Shopping: 20 Sustainable Fashion Sites We Love
(Mr. Larkin image) Fast fashion is a frustrating force to…
Project Just Launches Wikipedia Like Site For Transparency in Fashion
Navigating the unruly territory that is fashion and transparency is…
Mango Makes Fast Fashion Go Faster?
It seems like we are frequently made aware of fast…
Iris Van Herpen’s ‘Transforming Fashion’ Exhibit Launches in Atlanta
Image: Bart Oomes, No 6 Studios, Chemical Crows (2008) Fast…
Pictures! The BF+DA Positive Impact Awards
(Above: Pratt Institute President Thomas Schutte, BF+DA Executive Director Deb…
Isabel Marant Trying to Claim Oaxaca’s Indigenous Designs
You read that headline right. Luxury fashion brand Isabel Marant…
Is Clothing Made in Prison Really Ethical?
Business of Fashion writer Kate Abnett writes: “Across England and…
Cotton Traceability Nearly Impossible Say Sustainability Experts
As more brands start to enter the traceability ring, they…
Positive Impact Awards: Fanmail, BF+DA Mentors Award for Entrepreneurship
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Positive Impact Awards: Carl Zimring, Pratt Design Educators for Technology and Sustainability
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Positive Impact Awards: Phelan, P.LAB Award for Design Innovation
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Positive Impact Awards: Adam Matthews, News Reporting on Sustainability – Feature
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Positive Impact Awards: Teel Lidow, S. LAB Award for Sustainable Strategies
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Positive Impact Awards: Lewis Perkins, Collaboration to Advance Sustainability in the Fashion Industry
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Positive Impact Awards: Aza Ziegler, Pratt Young Entrepreneurs Award
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Knitwear Embraces Tech To Create a New Future For Textiles
Tamsin Blanchard of The Guardian writes: “I am in one…
Positive Impact Awards: Madison Maxey, T.LAB Award for Technology and Apparel
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
‘Book of Clothes,’ Proto-Social Media Selfies from the 1520s
Image: Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum The Atlantic writes: “Though remembered…
Positive Impact Awards: Jasmin Malik Chua, News Reporting on Sustainability–Daily Coverage
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Positive Impact Awards: Linda Greer, Industry Leadership in Creating a Sustainable Supply Chain
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
“Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,” Exhibit At Met This May
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is “helping the…
Positive Impact Awards: Caroline Kaufman, Pratt Young Entrepreneurs Award
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
The Wall Street Journal Explores Fashion’s Fair-Weather Supply Chain
The Wall Street Journal writes: “Even the biggest global brands…
Positive Impact Awards: EILEEN FISHER, Corporate Leadership in Advancing Sustainability
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Fashion Burnout? WWD Reports
WWD writes: “With its chaotic fashion weeks, torrents of tweets…
Positive Impact Awards: Andrew Morgan, Sustainability in Film
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Positive Impact Awards: Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, Pratt Design Educators Award for Technology and Sustainability
This year, to celebrate the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator’s…
Do You Know Where Your Halloween Costume Came From?
MTV News reports: “Halloween is a money-maker. Though the holiday’s got…
CraftingPlastics! Fuses Plants, Craft and a Sprinkle of Technology
Image: Crafting Plastics Not Just a Label writes about Berlin-based…
Aurora James Goes to Africa to Change Cultural Appropriation Through T-Shirts
Aurora James was selected this summer for the Vogue/CFDA Fashion…
The Kansas City Factories That Once Made Our Clothing
KCUR 89.3 is the flagship NPR station in the Kansas…
Etsy Vs. Amazon: Who Really Cares About Entrepreneurs?
The New York Times writes: “Amazon has stepped into the…
Lucy Jones Engineers Fashion For Wheelchair Users & The Disabled
Diana Budds recently wrote this fantastic article for Fast Company….
INTERVIEW: Adam Mott, Sustainability Director at The North Face on Taking Initiative
“It’s a fine line to walk,” Adam Mott tells me…
VIDEO: Local NYC Apparel Production Houses Partner with High School Designers
Local NYC apparel production houses in Brooklyn and Queens partnered…
EVENT: You Are What You Wear-New York’s Sustainable and Ethical Fashion Trade
While the value of what we put in our bodies…
‘Cheap Chic’ Book Resurfaces From 1975 as a Modern Manifesto
The New York Times writes: “It was an imperfect, yet…
The Supima Design Competition Partners with Pratt Institute’s BF+DA
Lauren Nahigian for Supima (Supima photos) According to the Supima…
VIDEO: Dressed in Code With Zac Posen and BF+DA Research Fellow Maddy Maxey
WWD writes: “All over Manhattan designers are calling in their…
Savile Row Tailors Embrace Tech
Google’s Project Jacquard smart fabric Forbes writer Rachel Arthur writes:…
The Rag Yards That Make Money Out of Your Discarded Clothes
The New Republic writes: “The average American throws away 68…
Toxic Fashion on Cover of Newsweek?!
Toxic fashion on the current cover of Newsweek? There’s enough…
VIDEO: Deborah Alden, Managing Director of the BF+DA at Tedx GrandRapids
Deborah Alden, Managing Director of the BF+DA discusses how a…
‘Wool’ From Slaughterhouse Waste: Cool or Creepy?
The Christian Science Monitor reports that researchers have pioneered a…
The Designer Amelia Earhart?
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across…
Textile Plants Are Dhaka’s Water Problem And Solution
Water is becoming an increasingly hot topic world wide in…
Grad Student Creates Entire (Soft) Fashion Collection With 3-D Printers
Danit Peleg, who recently graduated from the Shenkar College of…
For Indian Weavers in Varanasi, Help for an Endangered Craft
For Indian weavers in Varanasi, their craft is in danger…
Pope Francis Calls Global Capitalism a ‘Subtle Dictatorship’
The New York Times writes “Pope Francis does not just…
Plastic Trash Makes For Good Surf Shorts
Plastic trash is having its moment. We wrote recently about…
What’s The Price of Fresh Air in South Asia?
What’s the price of fresh air in South Asia? Environmentalists…
Museum of Fine Arts Boston’s “Dress Up in a Kimono” Event Considered Racist
ArtNet News writes that “protesters are up in arms” over…
VIDEO: Nervous System Uses Floraform to Create 3D Printed Designs
Designboom writes that ‘Floraform,’ a generative design project by Massachusetts-based…
Black Girls Sew a New (Eco) Summer Camp in Brooklyn
Black Girls Sew™says on their site: “Black Girls Sew™ is…
Adidas Sneakers Knit Entirely From Ocean Nets
Fast Co.Exist writes: “As engineers work to find new ways…
Francis Bitonti: 3D Printing Has ‘Become Incredibly Stagnant’
Francis Bitonti tells Dezeen: “The 3D-printing industry ‘is choking off its…
FILM: Samsung and Vimeo Explore Our Relationships With Tech in “Connected Series”
How can we explore technology even deeper? How can we…
At the Cooper Hewitt: David Adjaye Selects
On view June 19, 2015 through Feb. 14, 2016 From…
Nineteenth Amendment and Macy’s Forge New Partnership
Recently at the 2015 New York Fashion Tech Lab, Macy’s…