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Are Self-Cleaning Fabrics In Our Future? New Research Says Yes
Image: RyanMcGuire Almost a quarter of the water used in…
From Fungus to Fiber: Developing and Using Mushrooms to Make Textiles
Image: MycoTEX Forward thinking design innovation is showing us we…
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…
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Is Mending The New Shopping?
Nudie Jeans photo: Emily Andrews Mending used to be a normal…
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…
9 Female Farmers Changing The Fashion Industry
Image: La Rhea Pepper, Organic Cotton Farmer, Co-Founder and Senior…
Ex Feral Childe Designer New Fashion Director of Bespokery
While the fashion industry tries to figure out how to…
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: 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…
‘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…
Cambodia’s First Protest Band Takes Aim at the Fashion Industry
Last month, we had the chance to sit down with…
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…
Aurora James Goes to Africa to Change Cultural Appropriation Through T-Shirts
Aurora James was selected this summer for the Vogue/CFDA Fashion…
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…
The Antigua Project, A Design & Craft Collaboration
In May 2015, a group of 12 New York based…
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…
NYC Fashion Students Weigh In On Muslin Waste
“ The hardest thing in the world is to simplify…
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…
Is Social Media Traceability’s New Superman?
Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are helping consumers learn where their…
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…
Hate Planned Obsolescence? Consider the Fairphone
Some things wear out faster than others. Part of that…
Plastic Trash Makes For Good Surf Shorts
Plastic trash is having its moment. We wrote recently about…
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…
At the Cooper Hewitt: David Adjaye Selects
On view June 19, 2015 through Feb. 14, 2016 From…
An Eye for an Eye: The Death Penalty for Injustices in the Garment Industry
The Rana Plaza garment factory collapse On May 25, 2015,…
Nineteenth Amendment and Macy’s Forge New Partnership
Recently at the 2015 New York Fashion Tech Lab, Macy’s…
‘Space Between’ a Zero Waste Fashion Model Connecting Local Production & Waste
Space Between is a new business model for zero waste…
10 Fashion Industry Water Facts to Know for World Day to Combat Desertification
Did you know June 17th is World Day to Combat…
VIDEO: Electroloom Builds a 3D-Printer for Clothes
Ecouterre recently interviewed Electroloom founder Joseph White about the sustainable…
Bolt Threads Seeks to Make Material From Bacteria Genes Found In Spider Webs
TechCrunch writes of new startup Bolt Threads: “The startup plans…
When Yoga Trumps Fast Fashion
“Act from a place of love,” the rosy-faced yogi tells…
Google’s “Project Jacquard” Creates Conductive Yarn For Industrial Weaving
Bloomberg writes: “At last a technology company has grasped the…
5 Ways to Integrate Sustainability Into Your Design
Do you dream of turning your idea into a business?…
8 Ways to Remove Odors From Clothes Without Washing Them
With California in the news battling a very forward-facing drought,…
What the Trans-Pacific Partnership Means for Fashion
We’ve been following the Trans-Pacific Partnership very closely and what…
#10WEARS1WASH For World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
Did you know next month, June 17th is World Day…
7 Ways Independent Fashion Designers Can Beat Fast Fashion Giants
In the last 10 years, fast fashion growth has spiraled…
Vietnam Only Wants Facilities That Use Clean Technology
Sourcing Journal reported today that Vietnam turned down foreign textile…
What Frida Kahlo Wore: The Artist’s Wardrobe Locked Up For 50 years
The Guardian writes: “After Frida Kahlo died in 1954, her…
9 Ways Women Are Getting Abused in the Fashion Industry
The fashion industry is full of human rights abuses, and…
Study NY, Kiva Zip and Conversations in Craft
Brooklyn Fashion+Design Accelerator Research Fellow and Production Coordinator Tara St…
QUOTED: Factory Standards & Exploitation
“What threatens Bangladesh is not factory standards but political turmoil…As…
Indian Women Recast & Recycle Western Clothes
Unravel - Trailer from Soul Rebel Films on Vimeo. Aeon…
Zady’s .02 Slow Fashion T-Shirt Takes a Design Stop at the BF+DA
Ecouterre writes: “When is a T-shirt more than just another…
An Interview with Lost in Fiber’s Abigail Doan on Tumbleweeds & Urban Seeds
Flotsam orbs by Abigail Doan on the work table at…
Quoted: Is Eco-Friendly Dye Technology Sustainable?
“The only way to produce clothing cheaply is to do…
CROSSOVER: The Unlikely Fusion of Fast Food & High Fashion
Sometimes the lines in design are blurred. Fashion collections, inspired…
Kelly Holmes, Founder of Native Max Magazine Dispels Myth of Native Americans Not Existing
BuzzFeed writes: “When Kelly Holmes, founder of Native Max magazine,…
Quoted: The Rapper Heems on Immigrants Wearing Used Clothing
“I like it in theory — I like the idea…
10 Fashion Revolution Day Events To Show Solidarity At
Image: Rachel Manns, Fashion Revolution © 2015 Fashion Revolution Day…
VIDEO: Worn Stories Takes A Look at Fashion & Connection to Clothing
We recently had author Emily Spivack at the Brooklyn Fashion+Design…
Quartz: H&M’s “Sustainability” Report Hides the Unsustainable Reality of Fast Fashion
Quartz reported this morning on H&M’s “Sustainability” Report Hides the…
SUPPORT: Photochromia, An Apparel collection of UV Responsive Clothing
Brooklyn Fashion+Design Accelerator Research Fellows Maddy Maxey and Mari Kussman…
Patagonia Launches a ‘Worn Wear’ Tour of the U.S.
This spring Patagonia’s biodiesel repair truck is traveling from California…
Crossover: Lakota Quilts and Fast Fashion’s Stab at Native American Heritage
Sometimes the lines in design are blurred. Fashion collections, inspired…