Are you giving your consumer a platform to provide you with meaningful feedback? Do you know why their consumption patterns have changed? Don’t assume anything. Have you asked?
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Fashion Unknown Fact | Fashion’s First Black Photographer
Gordon Parks accomplished many firsts, including the distinction of being the first black photographer at Vogue, Glamour, and Life magazines.
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COVID Update: Reset, Recover Responsibly with Radical Change
Is the industry doing that? Lady Gaga has said ‘fashion doesn’t need to go together; it just needs to be upsetting’. She was referencing her dismissal of wearing designer clothing from head to toe. That’s just one aspect of the control culture or out-of-control culture that the fashion industry emits.
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Fashion Unknown Fact | Fashion’s First Black Designers
Fashion Unknown Fact presents a series of Fashion’s Firsts, as part of EDGE’s education content. Black fashion history is typically not part of the Western culture narrative from fashion institutions to fashion school’s curriculum. It is unknown, or if known, overlooked. EDGE recognizes the significant contribution Black fashion makers are to fashion’s history.
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NO EXIT, NO WAY OUT: close the loop on fashion
Textiles [clothing] have no way out of a circular fashion system. In a circular system, they are designed with no exit strategy.
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Circle By Design: EDGE Talks to Ophir El-Boher – a circular Design System and strategies for a sustainable future
What I hope to accomplish is basically a diversion of the practices we use to satisfy our materialistic needs. I personally believe that the urge for something new is something not worth trying to change, what I focus on changing is the reaction to that urge. – Ophir El-Boher
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Down to Earth: EDGE talks circular fashion with Ophir El-Boher
What I find fascinating about the subject of sustainable fashion is that many in the industry don’t truly understand, or let’s say embrace, the benefit of a complete supply system that conserves and values our resources.
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Imagine a Future. . .not too far in the future: you can’t hide from a sustainable world
This is a re-post from October 2014, Sustainable Fashion Never Goes Out of Style. This future scenario was published in February 2010 report, Fashion Futures 2025, by Levi Strauss & Co. We are 10 years into their 15 year forecast. Not too far from a future like this?
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Correction, Contraction, and Cessation. COVID-19 calls to action a sustainable fashion system
The carnage of closures from the impact of COVID-19 throughout the supply chain is forcing the industry to pause and re-set. According to Mckinsey & Co., if stores remain closed for two months, 80 percent of publicly listed fashion companies in Europe and North America will be in financial distress. Revenues for the global fashion industry […]
Read moreWhat will the future look like after COVID-19? It will seismically shift societal behavior – in what we appreciate, what we prioritize as important, and how we consume.
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Columbia designer re-fashions futbol jerseys and it’s not what you think | EDGE talks to Juan Pablo Martinez
Did you know that futbol team, aka soccer, t-shirts are considered fast fashion and negatively impact the environment? Sustainable fashion designer Juan Pablo Martinez thinks so. He says, “the top 10 futbol teams alone, sell 17,500,000 100% polyester t-shirts every year”.
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All Power to the Imagination. On|Off presents a Surrealistic cat walk
Art as fashion. Fashion as art. Get on board to a movement that counters the out-of-control ‘cut and sew’ robotic-produced fashion thrown our way with no artistic and sustainable values. London Fashion Week’s On|Off runway show sent a message to shake up the status quo.
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Current state of affairs sparks a creative revelation | EDGE Talks to Yvonne Lin
The global state of affairs is the engine that drives the vision of Yvonne Lin’s body of work. Fashion, like art, is a catalyst for dialogue and exchange of ideas and values. It is fundamentally rooted in our culture in an age of identity politics, multiculturalism, and social transformation. Lin looks deep into the fractures […]
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Ukraine’s BE SUSTAINABLE! – a platform making noise
Fashion is universally cited as being one of the most polluting industries in the world. Thank you to conscious consumers and to environmental activists such as Greta Thunberg for their demands on attacking the environmental crisis. Putting sustainability at the forefront of business models, strategic plans, supply chain infrastructure, etc., is long overdue.
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Fashion for the Soul | EDGE Talks to Maital Levitan
Soul – the Dictionary definition is an emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance. Maital Levitan personifies this artistic practice with a body of work that reveals an emotionally charged narrative. She is a fearless storyteller producing bold designs that are relevant with a […]
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Alena Kalana | Tibetan Transplant
Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art, [far left] Alena Kalana and Hera Zhou, designers
Hera Zhou | The Wave
Tingyue Jiang | Erik ReeL paintings
Tingyue Jiang | Erik ReeL paintings
Tingyue Jiang | painting by Erik ReeL | photo Charlene Broudy | GraySpace Gallery
Alena Kalana | Tibetan Transplant
Alena Kalana, Tibetan Transplant
Alena Kalana
Opening Reception
The Art of Fashion | Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art
Fashion exhibitions at art galleries are the new black – Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art exhibit.
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Fashion as an Art | Central Saint Martins’ Design Students Present Fashion in Motion
Fashion is an art form. Performance art – live mannequin presentation – at it’s best.
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The State of Fashion 2020 | Sustainability First
For the first time sustainability was named the biggest opportunity in this study.
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Portland’s FashioNxt Week – is it truly What’s Next?
FashioNxt Week, Portland, Oregon’s version of Fashion Week with an emphasis on the Pacific Northwest, showcases designers from around the world.
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Launch Pad | a runway event fuses an iconic American brand and an emerging design force
Crystal chandeliers, embroidered tapestries, carved marble fountains and columns, and frescoes and murals were the backdrop to Woodbury University’s popular fashion runway event. The fashion design students shared the runway with famed fashion duo Badgley Mischka at the historic landmark, Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.
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A Message from the Editor to FIDM graduates and all emerging designers
. . . And to Those Still Trying to Break Through the ‘Noise’. There are no impossibilities. In a world where we are taught to conform, we must be diligent in using our creative power for change.
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What’s In Style? Responsible Fashion and 20 EDGE designers making the case
What is responsible fashion? When you. . .
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Fashion Unknown Fact | 10,000 liters of water. . .grow one kilo of cotton
10,000 liters of water is required to grow one kilo of cotton needed to make just one pair of denim jeans. In comparison, one person would take 10 years to drink 10,000 liters of water. Cumulatively, the fashion industry produces about 20% of global waste water. Source: UN Helps Fashion Industry Shift to Low Carbon […]
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