I began seeing the clothes I had been accountable for making as post-consumer waste: in thrift stores, jammed […]
Category Archive: EDGE Radar
EDGE featured designers and industry professionals on the radar.
There are economic, ethical, cultural, and design issues around mass production, particularly mass produced fashion. Aside from […]
One thing I want to do is figure out a better way to leave less of a footprint. […]
Brain cancer survivor, Susan Tancer, creates one-of-a-kind functional art. Painting became a therapeutic escape from cancer treatment. After […]
This was an experience that you can’t get in school; it is like a master teaching their apprentice. […]
Breaking the rules, disrupting the fashion system is easier than you think. Fashion designer, Peivand Mirzaie has made […]
A water-pollution-inspired collection gets the attention of a museum. I really think that showing in museums helps […]
Fashion, like art, embodies the time we live in and society bears witness to the interpretation of its historical and cultural significance. - RPH
Fashion design is my diary. I always can mark a collection around a devastating or exciting time in my […]
Francesco Rasola is on the EDGE Radar for a very good reason. He thinks, he makes you think, […]
The Fashion industry has contributed to the earth’s pollution, and my endeavor is to show the world that […]
I love finding inspiration from a painting – either the lines, colors, shapes, or the story of the […]
I often compare my runways to the album release or a movie premiere; so much design, work, and planning goes into it and its meant to be enjoyed as a complete body of work. - Michael Ngo
I saw Al Gore’s documentary and felt that what I was doing in fashion didn’t have real meaning […]
MY ADVICE TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE SUCCESSFUL: KNOCK ON AS MANY DOORS AS POSSIBLE AND LEAVE A POSITIVE IMPRESSION. Diarra Bousso
We want to bring back the essence from all over the world, with handmade, fine ARTISANal collections that are […]
Most people in the fashion industry told me I was too old, and without an education and the […]
If there’s a word to describe “GAiETY uP” it would be EXUBERANT – Patrick Kevin Francisco Patrick Kevin […]
Throw away fashion, this is NOT. On the opposite end of the [fast and cheap] spectrum of fashion is Standard Issue.
Francesco Rasola‘s new collection, “It’s Just Matter of Time”, expresses this Italian fashion designer’s gift in executing a look […]
It’s really amazing to present something to the world of fashion and share the stage with people who […]
The tomorrow people is what we can now call ourselves, because of the vision we hold as previously […]
The future of fashion is simple: it has to be the redemption of itself, it has to demonstrate […]
Fashion customers want what you are creating and they are rejecting the fast fashion (fashion homogenization) that is in every “box store” in America. – Jay Arbetman, The Sourcing District
Amongst all the brands out there, it’s a challenge to stand out and not give in to consumerism, […]
The EDGE philosophy champions beyond ordinary outcomes. In thinking out of the box and developing this content, we bring you […]
Koko Nanga consumer is an Afropolitan at heart. Throughout my journey I have met/spoken to a variety of […]
Who are the ‘ones to watch’? The next generation of emerging designers who have got the edge [EDGE] are, quite simply, coming from the art and fashion schools.
. . .where is the sense of design? Read on, these designers, [l-r] Michael Ngo, Amato Couture by Furne One, Rahil Hesan, & Marmar Halim, have it.
“. . .The essential triangle of sustainability is social, economic, environmental. You have to have all three or you are not really sustainable. . .I want to be a positive part of my community – thus growing a business and hiring, training, creating skilled jobs goes with the territory. That fills both social and economic legs of the sustainability triangle.” – Laura Tanzer
