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2019 Redress Design Award Open For Applications
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‘Brooklyn Pledge to Accelerate Change’ Addresses Human Rights in Fashion Supply Chain
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Pratt Industrial Design Students Look to Knitting Technology to Curb Waste
Pratt Master of Industrial Design student project by Nan Zhou…
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(A Holiday Reminder) The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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Flint Fit Tackles Michigan’s Water Crisis Through Fashion
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BF+DA Research Fellow Russell Joye To Focus on Helping Dad with Parkinsons
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Master Craft Can Go The Way of the Dodo If We’re Not Careful
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Automation Leaves Women Garment Workers Vulnerable, A Video Game Aims to Change That
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Genetically Engineered Clothes: Forward Thinking or Harmful?
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The Future of Leather is Fish Skin
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World Cities Forum in Chengdu, China Harnesses Power of Creative Culture
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INTERVIEW: Olivia Burca on the Future of Yoga & Interactive Clothing
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How to Redefine Fashion & Tech in 10 Weeks in Brooklyn
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10 Fashion Industry Water Facts to Know for World Oceans Day
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BU Period’s Smart Sanitary Pad Helping Women Take Health Back
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BF+DA’s Make It Black Selected For Levi’s Collaboratory
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Celebrate These 9 Women Fiber Farmers on National Agriculture Day!
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2018 Redress Design Award Open For Applications
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Algorithms Are Set to Replace Designers in the Fashion Industry
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Google Digitizes Fashion on ‘We Wear Culture’ Platform
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The Circular Economy Requires Industry-Wide Collaboration to Succeed
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Futureworks Shops Opens Access to 9 Advanced Manufacturing Spaces
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‘Shoetopia’ Makes 3D Sneakers Biodegradable
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Microplastic Facts: Protect Watersheds From Apparel & Beauty Products
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AUDIO-The Trump Effect: Immigration, Apparel Manufacturing and the Environment
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Could 100 Tons of Cotton Equal a 45 Minute Flight On a 747?
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U.S. Department of Commerce Awards $486K Research Grant to BF+DA
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INTERVIEW: Positive Impact Awards, Jason Kibbey, CEO, Sustainable Apparel Coalition
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Can Connecting the Dots of Women in Fashion Empower Women?
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Andrew Bolton, The Met’s Costume Institute Curator Embraces Future Fashion
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EILEEN FISHER’s Remade in the USA Closes the Loop
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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
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Project JUST, Raising Funds to Support Research Into 100 Clothing Brands
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Your Clothes Are Poisoning The Oceans
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Wearable Experiments’ Football Fan Shirt Connects Players to People
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Fiber Producers Fight Climate Change With Carbon Farming
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Are Self-Cleaning Fabrics In Our Future? New Research Says Yes
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From Fungus to Fiber: Developing and Using Mushrooms to Make Textiles
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The Textile Industry Looks to Tech for Revival
As the textile industry looks to tech for a modern…
Is Mending The New Shopping?
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Sweden’s #Sharewear Hopes To Help Lower Carbon Footprint
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Paper Clothing: A Look Back to Look Forward
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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
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Knitwear Embraces Tech To Create a New Future For Textiles
Tamsin Blanchard of The Guardian writes: “I am in one…
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INTERVIEW: Luna Lee, Human Right’s Leader at EILEEN FISHER on The Handloom Project
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For Indian Weavers in Varanasi, Help for an Endangered Craft
For Indian weavers in Varanasi, their craft is in danger…
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QUOTED: Factory Standards & Exploitation
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Pratt Institute Presents Its 2015 Master of Industrial Design Thesis Exhibition-“Fake ID”
The Pratt Institute will present its 2015 Master of Industrial…
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SUPPORT: Photochromia, An Apparel collection of UV Responsive Clothing
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For Sale: New Fashion Terms For an Old-Fashioned Industry
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VIDEO: How Is Technology Changing Pattern, Color & Cloth in Fashion?
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The CRATED Goes Beyond Wearable Tech Into Functional Fashion
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