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Texworld Looks to Water Conservation in Fashion Industry
In a recent seminar at Texworld on “Sustainability: Water Use,…
A Q&A With Mimaki on Environmentally Friendly Digital Printing
Mimaki USA is a global industry leader and manufacturer of…
Sustainable Fashion Roadmap: Anticipated Lifespan
How can you design a garment with materials and methods…
Fashion Brands Let Their Sustainable Fabrics Tell a Story
Polyester, polyester everywhere, and not a stitch to savor? If…
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…
The New Denim Project Takes on a Circular Economy
The New Denim Project is a premium fabric line made…
‘Shoetopia’ Makes 3D Sneakers Biodegradable
Barbara Motylińska and Zuza Gronwicz’s biodegradable 3D sneaker According to…
BF+DA Alumna Blair Lauren Brown Launches Ethical Gold Collective
This Friday, April 28th, from 4:00-4:45 p.m., join Brooklyn Fashion…
7 Ways Textiles & Design Are Helping Refugees
In the face of the refugee crisis, many designers are…
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
The EcoChic Design Award is a sustainable fashion design competition…
SERIES: Part 2-The Social & Environmental Impacts of Standards and Certifications
We recently examined the relationship of standards and certifications to…
Tabii Just, Caravan Stylist Studio & BF+DA at NYFW Pop Up Atelier
Tabii Just and Caravan Stylist Studio have partnered for a…
SERIES: Part 3-The Many Challenges of Fashion Certifications
We recently dove into the world of fashion certifications in…
Rooted in Agriculture, Western Carolina Crosses Industries For Success
Sewing Field, digital collage, 2010, Libby O’Bryan Western North Carolina…
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…
SERIES: Part 1-How Helpful Are Standards and Certifications?
The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza should have never happened,…
INTERVIEW: Positive Impact Awards, Jamie Bainbridge, VP of Product Development, Bolt Threads
Jamie Bainbridge is the VP of Product Development at Bolt…
Outdoor Brand Orin Lets Internet Decide on Price & Traceability
According to Tech Insider,for two weeks starting Monday, August 8,…
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…
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…
15 Textile Books To Add To Your Summer Reading List
Earlier this year, we rounded up 10 fantastic textile books,…
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…
New Patagonia Film Addresses Industrial Hemp Legalization in the USA
Patagonia states in a press release that in 2016 alone,…
Threadbare: A New Book About Fashion, Sex and Trafficking
“If the United States isn’t the birthplace of fast fashion,…
An Open-Source, DIY Machine That Turns Plastic Waste Into New Products
Image: Precious Plastic Upwards of 13 million tons of plastic…
The Textile Industry Looks to Tech for Revival
As the textile industry looks to tech for a modern…
Ex Feral Childe Designer New Fashion Director of Bespokery
While the fashion industry tries to figure out how to…
Artist Libby O’Bryan Crowdsources A Blankets Worth
Image: Libby O’Bryan What is a product’s worth to you?…
Ghostworkers are Making Your Clothes
Marc Bain of Quartz writes on “A huge underclass of…
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…
Cotton Traceability Nearly Impossible Say Sustainability Experts
As more brands start to enter the traceability ring, they…
Positive Impact Awards: Adam Matthews, News Reporting on Sustainability – Feature
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…
Knitwear Embraces Tech To Create a New Future For Textiles
Tamsin Blanchard of The Guardian writes: “I am in one…
Positive Impact Awards: Linda Greer, Industry Leadership in Creating a Sustainable Supply Chain
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…
The Antigua Project, A Design & Craft Collaboration
In May 2015, a group of 12 New York based…
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…
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…
What’s The Price of Fresh Air in South Asia?
What’s the price of fresh air in South Asia? Environmentalists…
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…
‘Space Between’ a Zero Waste Fashion Model Connecting Local Production & Waste
Space Between is a new business model for zero waste…
5 Ways to Integrate Sustainability Into Your Design
Do you dream of turning your idea into a business?…
What the Trans-Pacific Partnership Means for Fashion
We’ve been following the Trans-Pacific Partnership very closely and what…
Vietnam Only Wants Facilities That Use Clean Technology
Sourcing Journal reported today that Vietnam turned down foreign textile…
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…
Quoted: Is Eco-Friendly Dye Technology Sustainable?
“The only way to produce clothing cheaply is to do…
Apple Buys Forests in Maine for Sustainable Supply Chain Move
Apple recently bought forests in Maine for a sustainable supply…
Traditional Folk Embroidery Made Into Playable Music
Ecouterre reports on design student Zsanett Szirmay, of the Moholy-nagy…
VIDEO: BK Live Featuring BF+DA Production Coordinator Tara St James
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104 Years Later: Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Today is the 104th anniversary of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist…
10 “Made In,” Fashion Facts That Might Surprise You
Do you know where your clothing came from? 18 years…
Textiles Get DNA Tested to Authenticate Transparency
Sourcing Journal writes: “Transparency has quickly moved from an added…
ILO: 17 Million Children Engaged in Child Labor in South Asia
Sourcing Journal reports that nearly 17 million children between ages…
U.S. Designers Build Out Their Own Apparel Production Facilities
Headlines keep including more of the same fashion buzz words:…
Stop Chasing Low-Cost Country Sourcing
Originally posted on Sourcing Journal, Lyndsay McGregor It’s time for…
The BF+DA Welcomes Vegan Fashion House Vaute Couture!
We’re so happy to welcome Vaute Couture to the Brooklyn…
Has Crowdfunding Changed the Fashion Industry?
Elizabeth Bates writes on Entrepreneur on how the classic model…
Samples & Small Scale Production at the BF+DA
From sketch to tech pack to pattern to finished sample,…
Patagonia Launches ‘Truth to Materials’
Patagonia recently launched a new collection called “Truth to Materials,”…
10 Labor Rights Books That Will Make You Think Differently About Where Your Clothes Come From
Want to follow the story of a basic wardrobe staple…
Infographic : Apparel Industry Outsourcing In The U.S.
The U.S. Textile and Apparel Manufacturing industry has lost millions…