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  • Fashion Industry Environmental, Waste, and Recycle Statistics
    Fashion Industry Environmental, Waste, and Recycle Statistics
  • Fashion Unknown Fact | Non-Biodegradable Clothes Take 20 to 200 Years to Biodegrade
    Fashion Unknown Fact | Non-Biodegradable Clothes Take 20 to 200 Years to Biodegrade
  • METAVERSE Fashion: fad, FRINGE, or Future? BFC gives out First Award
    METAVERSE Fashion: fad, FRINGE, or Future? BFC gives out First Award
  • Fashion Culture | Aryanization and the Destruction of Berlin's Fashion Industry
    Fashion Culture | Aryanization and the Destruction of Berlin's Fashion Industry
  • NO EXIT, NO WAY OUT: close the loop on fashion
    NO EXIT, NO WAY OUT: close the loop on fashion
  • Fashion Culture | A Study of Eight, The Untold American Story
    Fashion Culture | A Study of Eight, The Untold American Story

“A Study” of Patrick Kelly | 2022 Release

PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER: A model walks the runway at the Patrick Kelly Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 1989 fashion show during the Paris Fashion Week in October, 1988 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
“A Study” of Kelly’s work, the struggles with Black designer representation and identity, and putting racism out front in his designs, to be released 2022.

Neo.Fashion.: The Vanguard of Fashion Emerges from Germany

"Look at EDGE" Showcases Neo.Fashion. | A Curated Showcase of Emerging Talent.

“Although fashion has it’s utilitarian purpose, we can view it more than just a consumptive object.  A new generation of designers offer an intelligent dialogue on fashion’s contribution to art, culture, and practices of sustaining earth’s resources.”

-RP Hill

Aryanization and the Destruction of Berlin’s Fashion Industry

Source Pinterest, Gary Moon | Berlin 1928, at a polo tournament, scan from: Berlin die 20er Jahre, Christian Brandstätter Verlag
Today a memorial in Hausvogteiplatz, the center of Berlin’s fashion district, marks this history.

“Today, Berlin only teaches fashion as far back to the 1950s; they don’t go further back.  Talent is lost from the 1920s and ’30s, and when you don’t pick up on that, you lose a new generation of designers.”

– Uwe Westphal, as told to Atlanta Jewish Times

The “Good Influence’ Of Fashion | 김보민 Bomin Kim

블루 탬버린 BlueTamburin

“What is important to me is how much ‘good influence’ you have on society through fashion.”

-김보민 Bomin Kim, designer for 블루템버린 BlueTamburin

Museum Destiny: The Case for Contemporary Fashion

Designed by Hera Zhou | Exhibited at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; GraySpace Gallery, Santa Barbara
Inspired by Hokusai's "The Great Wave", The 'White Feather Dress' by Hera Zhou | Exhibited at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; GraySpace Gallery, Santa Barbara

“Let’s keep fighting the fight for fashion as art.”

– Hera Zhou | Shanghai

“Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art”, curated by Rhonda P. Hill

Blurred Boundaries Fashion as an Art installation, curated by [l] Rhonda P. Hill, ©Rhonda P. Hill, 2018
"Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art" installation | Santa Barbara

Sustainable Fashion: Be Informed | EDGE Suggested Resources

  • A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning Fashion's Future
  • CFDA Guide to Sustainable Strategies
  • CFDA Materials Index
  • Circular Fashion
  • Circular Fashion System – EDGE explains
  • Climate Action Playbook
  • Eco-fiber or Eco Fraud?
  • ECONYL®
  • Ecouterre
  • European Commission Circular Economy Action Plan
  • European Parliament Report
  • Fashion Futures 2030
  • Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Change
  • Fashion Industry Environmental, Waste, and Recycle Statistics
  • Fashion on Climate
  • Green America
  • Green Fashion Week
  • Green Strategy
  • Hemp Textiles
  • Hemp Traders Flyer
  • Looptworks
  • Net Zero Challenge: The Supply Chain Opportunity
  • Quantis Report | Measuring Fashion
  • Redress
  • Relooping Fashion Initiative
  • Sustainable Apparel Coalition
  • sustainable EDGE
  • Sustainable Textiles, the Textile Community Talks
  • The Ellen MacArthur Foundation
  • The Pulse of the Fashion Industry Report
  • thredUP
  • Triple Pundit
  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce Textile Waste Is the Next New Product
  • United Nations Helps Fashion Industry Shift to Low Carbon
  • United Nations Partnership On Sustainable Fashion
  • WRAP
  • Zero Waste Design

NPR Here & Now showcases ‘A Study of Eight’

NPR Here & Now showcases 'A Study of Eight' | Ebony Fashion Fair; Jean Patou (France) Fall/Winter 1986-87, appeared in Fashion Scandal
Jane Clayson, host of WBUR, interviews Rhonda P. Hill

“African Americans have contributed historically to fashion in ways that we just don’t know about. ‘A Study of Eight’ highlights those hidden figures and events.”

-RP Hill

“A Study of Eight, The Untold American Story”

W.E.B. Du Bois' Exposition des Nègres d’Amérique Transformed the World's View of Black in America

Oregon ArtsWatch | Rhonda P. Hill and the EDGE of Design

Stage & Studio Dmae Lo Roberts looks at the Black contributions to fashion design throughout American history with writer, publisher and fashion expert Rhonda P. Hill.

Fashion Study | EDGE Suggested Resources

  • A Study of Eight
  • Aryanization and the Destruction of Berlin’s Fashion Industry
  • Black Past
  • Fashion History
  • Fashion History Timeline
  • Ikats from Central Asia
  • Patrick Kelly: A Retrospective
  • The Fashion and Race Database
  • Traditional Dress from East Asia
  • Willi Smith: The Creative Intersection of an American Genius

Fashion and Society, A Constant State of Interpretation| 배혜진 Hyee Jin Bae

배혜진 HYEE JIN BAE, Artist.
배혜진 HYEE JIN BAE exhibit at CICA Museum, Seoul, Korea

“Typically, the visual form or design is based on the functionality, but the function of the clothing that I make differs from looking posh or preventing the cold. My clothes are designed for people to focus on the act of wearing the clothing.”

– 배혜진 Hyee Jin Bae | Seoul, Korea

A Fashion Story Honors Women in Combat | Isabella Diorio

The Ashley Coat, The Cathay Dress, The Brewster Bolero | Photo: Emily Warfield

“It’s not just about the garment itself but about the story behind it.”

– Isabella Diorio | New Orleans, Louisiana

Current State of Affairs Sparks a Creative Revelation

Vulnus Cura, Yvonne Lin, designer, Courtesy of Yvonne Lin, 25_
"Vulnus Cura" collection by Yvonne Lin

“I feel there are so many things happening in this society that are wounding. I wanted to reflect that process in my design, reveal what is broken and confront the problems affecting us.” 

– Yvonne Lin | London

Preserving the Art of Shibori

Skirt : JUNNA (@junnakamura_) Model : Raihanna Thompson (@_raihanna) Makeup : Azzurra Bonaldo (@azzurra_bonaldo @maccosmetics) Direction : Riccardo Rubino (@rick_inky_style) Designer : Jun Nakamura (@junnakamura_)
Shibori, a modern look by Jun Nakamura

“I think the process of developing design by working on a form, sketching, and collaging is similar to that of creating art.  It all challenges our creativity, striking a balance as a whole piece.”

– Jun Nakamura | London

What to Do About the Unsustainability of Lingerie?

What's Left Behind | Maital Levitan, designer | Photography: Rotem Lebel
"What's Left Behind", by designer, Maital Levitan

“Victoria’s Secret is only one of the many brands that contributes to the swelling levels of waste the industry is generating. Every year, the entire apparel industry, including lingerie, generates 15 million tons of textile waste.”

– Jen Carnago, writer, EDGE contributor | London

Circle By Design | A Talk With Ophir El-Boher

courtesy of Ophir El-Boher, photography Mario Gallucci, Copy of PNCA-MFA-Thesis-2019-DSC_7598
A circular design system for a sustainable future.

“My strategy is to design systems where individuals can produce fashion items out of waste, according to an existing design, in a way that is circular. . .my theory is that if some percentage of your closet is made by you through such a system, then you have changed your consumption behavior for the long term, and therefore will be a much better fashion consumer and user.”

– Ophir El-Boher | Portland, Oregon

The Power of Cloth and Why We Should Care | Abiola Onabule

Abiola Onabule Photo 2 - Photos by Jessica Eliza Ross
Abiola Onabule, designer | Photo: Jessica Eliza Ross

“My interest in textiles such as Adire and Aso Oke comes from a fascination in how a textile can become the through-line of people’s lives, their personal histories, economic change and growth, political and cultural shifts.” 

– Abiola Onabule | London

EDGE Afropolitan | African Diaspora Fashion Makers

AFWLA 2016,edgexpo.com, cindy ceballos photo, oct 22 73943pm63
'The talk', elevating African cloth, Rhonda with Maryanne E. Mokoko

Elevating African Fashion | A Talk with Maryanne E. Mokoko

“Throughout my journey I have met/spoken to a variety of people from different countries, cultures, races.  With this I have realized that you don’t have to be Black to be Afropolitan.  You simply have to have an affinity for Afro culture.”

– Maryanne E. Mokoko | USA/Cameroon

“I am so grateful for this opportunity! Thank you for the bold questions @edgexpo” 🙏🏾

– Maryanne E. Mokoko | USA/Cameroon

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