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VIDEO: What Makes A Citizen?
What makes you feel like you belong to a place…
Google Digitizes Fashion on ‘We Wear Culture’ Platform
“We Wear Culture” is a collaboration between Google and more…
The Circular Economy Requires Industry-Wide Collaboration to Succeed
Image: “Shifting to a circular system” panel with Ellen MacArthur,…
Futureworks Shops Opens Access to 9 Advanced Manufacturing Spaces
Prototyping in New York City just got a whole lot…
‘Shoetopia’ Makes 3D Sneakers Biodegradable
Barbara Motylińska and Zuza Gronwicz’s biodegradable 3D sneaker According to…
Microplastic Facts: Protect Watersheds From Apparel & Beauty Products
Riverkeeper, New York’s biggest clean water advocate was created to…
AUDIO-The Trump Effect: Immigration, Apparel Manufacturing and the Environment
Forum for the Future’s Sandra Seru and ITAC’s Kinda Younes…
Could 100 Tons of Cotton Equal a 45 Minute Flight On a 747?
It’s hard to wrap your brain around how much textile…
Rooted in Agriculture, Western Carolina Crosses Industries For Success
Sewing Field, digital collage, 2010, Libby O’Bryan Western North Carolina…
Truth+Consequences: The Experimenter
Image: Magnolia Pictures Truth+Consequences is an ongoing column by Brooklyn…
Adidas Uses Synthetic Spider Silk For Biodegradable Sneakers
According to Designboom, “Adidas’ Futurecraft has dedicated the past years…
10 Fashion Brands Innovating with Textile Waste
In a world of excess, innovation comes not just in…
U.S. Department of Commerce Awards $486K Research Grant to BF+DA
2016 Research Fellow Maddy Maxey, founder of Loomia. Photo by…
INTERVIEW: Positive Impact Awards, Nicole Rycroft, Canopy
Canopy works with over 750 of the forest industry’s largest…
INTERVIEW: Positive Impact Awards, Jill Dumain, Director of Sustainable Strategy, Patagonia
Jill Dumain’s titles at Patagonia have spanned positions in the…
INTERVIEW: Positive Impact Awards, Jason Kibbey, CEO, Sustainable Apparel Coalition
In 2010, Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway helped gather the top leaders…
Post NYFW: The Success of Buy Now Wear Now
Looking back post New York Fashion Week at the success…
Can Connecting the Dots of Women in Fashion Empower Women?
If we could connect the collective dots of feminism sprinkled…
What If the Unworn Clothes in Your Closet Could Tweet at You to Wear Them?
In visions of the future, it’s often the machines that…
INTERVIEW: Teknikio Likens Wearable Tech to Zippers
“Wearable technology” is creating quite the buzz these days. Though…
VIDEO: BF+DA Founder Deb Johnson Talks McQueen at FashTech London
Launched in 2014, FashTech has produced events and curated discussions…
Andrew Bolton, The Met’s Costume Institute Curator Embraces Future Fashion
(Image: Fashion Redef) In a Fashion Redef original interview, Adam…
EILEEN FISHER’s Remade in the USA Closes the Loop
If you were to walk into EILEEN FISHER’s Remade in…
Op-Ed: America Leads the World in Textile Waste and Unwanted Clothing, Here’s Why
Americans rarely think about clothing waste because, really, what’s there…
Etology Embraces a Circular Economy For Fashion With Information Tech
Etology, a fashion tech company embracing circular economy principles will…
Friday 5: Five Stories That Changed The Way We Think About Fashion
Every week we put together our Friday 5 -five stories…
Project JUST, Raising Funds to Support Research Into 100 Clothing Brands
Project JUST recently announced that it is raising $30,000 to…
Your Clothes Are Poisoning The Oceans
We’ve reported on how the fashion industry is impacting our…
15 Textile Books To Add To Your Summer Reading List
Earlier this year, we rounded up 10 fantastic textile books,…
Wearable Experiments’ Football Fan Shirt Connects Players to People
Wearable Experiments and Billie Whitehouse just announced the European launch…
Fiber Producers Fight Climate Change With Carbon Farming
The concept of carbon farming in fashion has made waves…
Lauren Slowik of Shapeways’ Ten Favorite 3D Scanning Projects
Lauren Slowik at the Brooklyn Fashion+Design Accelerator’s Tech Tuesday It…
3D Printing’s “Pink Panther” Sets Stage For Talking Feminism In Tech
When you start poking around 3D printing blogs, marketplaces, websites,…
10 Billion Items of Connected Clothing, A New Mine for Sustainability Data
Forbes writes that some 10 billion products in the apparel,…
5 Ways Designers Are Using Pollution For Good
Image: Bury Pollution Garment: Alex Tosti Today, one in eight…
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…
The Textile Industry Looks to Tech for Revival
As the textile industry looks to tech for a modern…
Is Mending The New Shopping?
Nudie Jeans photo: Emily Andrews Mending used to be a normal…
Sweden’s #Sharewear Hopes To Help Lower Carbon Footprint
According to Fast Company, VisitSweden and the Swedish Institute recently…
Come Join Our Team!
The BF+DA is looking for a Receptionist! Could that be you?…
Paper Clothing: A Look Back to Look Forward
Image via GOOD Magazine and Sera Lindsey Good Magazine writer…
Project Just Launches Wikipedia Like Site For Transparency in Fashion
Navigating the unruly territory that is fashion and transparency is…
Pictures! The BF+DA Positive Impact Awards
(Above: Pratt Institute President Thomas Schutte, BF+DA Executive Director Deb…
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…
Fashion Burnout? WWD Reports
WWD writes: “With its chaotic fashion weeks, torrents of tweets…
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…
10 Fashion Industry Water Facts to Know for World Day to Combat Desertification
Did you know June 17th is World Day to Combat…
QUOTED: Factory Standards & Exploitation
“What threatens Bangladesh is not factory standards but political turmoil…As…
Pratt Institute Presents Its 2015 Master of Industrial Design Thesis Exhibition-“Fake ID”
The Pratt Institute will present its 2015 Master of Industrial…
An Interview with Lost in Fiber’s Abigail Doan on Tumbleweeds & Urban Seeds
Flotsam orbs by Abigail Doan on the work table at…
SUPPORT: Photochromia, An Apparel collection of UV Responsive Clothing
Brooklyn Fashion+Design Accelerator Research Fellows Maddy Maxey and Mari Kussman…
For Sale: New Fashion Terms For an Old-Fashioned Industry
I received this email recently: “On a different note I…
VIDEO: How Is Technology Changing Pattern, Color & Cloth in Fashion?
Image: The Unseen London Fashion Week and the British Fashion…
The CRATED Goes Beyond Wearable Tech Into Functional Fashion
The tech+fashion industry are still in the early stages in…
Adafruit’s Becky Stern on Wearable Tech, Teenagers & Making Electronics Natural
Get to know Becky Stern of Adafruit Industries. Becky Stern is…