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Fashion Forward is a New York City-based non-profit think tank exploring culture, society, technology, and sustainability through the lens of fashion.

08/08/2022

Via our wonderful past Fashion Forward speaker

Got a bit of free time in August? Fancy trying out speculative design? Want to change the world(s)? Join the Fashion Fictions prototyping series!

The Fashion Fictions project responds to the urgent need for change in the mainstream globalised fashion system by bringing people together to generate, experience and reflect on engaging fictional visions of alternative fashion worlds.

In August the Fashion Fictions prototyping experience is available online for the first time! Work solo or with others to create an image/object to represent life in a fictional world. (Because to create a better fashion system, we have to be able to imagine alternatives!)

15-17 August, 11.00am-12.30pm UK time (attend all three sessions); free, open to all. No specific creative skills required!

Book via Eventbrite: bit.ly/FFAug22

06/02/2022

Dutch designer Iris van Herpen is known for her breathtaking, sometimes gravity-defying garments that fuse traditional haute couture techniques with modern technology. In her article for the Fashion Forward journal, our fellow, Jane Handorff examines how van Herpen utilizes materials and techniques to create new forms of femininity and movement.

ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT. To read the article, pre-order the first edition of the Fashion Forward journal, today. Head to our bio to find the link to our Indiegogo campaign, and make your contribution towards a more inclusive fashion system.

https://igg.me/at/fashionforward/x/28967575 #/

06/01/2022

Dutch designer Iris van Herpen is known for her breathtaking, sometimes gravity-defying garments that fuse traditional haute couture techniques with modern technology. In her article for the Fashion Forward journal, our fellow, Jane Handorff examines how van Herpen utilizes materials and techniques to create new forms of femininity and movement.

ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT. To read the article, pre-order the first edition of the Fashion Forward journal, today. Head to our bio to find the link to our Indiegogo campaign, and make your contribution towards a more inclusive fashion system.

https://igg.me/at/fashionforward/x/28967575 #/

05/31/2022

The decision to get a nose job is not an easy one for anyone to make, let alone in a country where Western, Eastern, and religious expectations and standards often clash. Faegheh Bahrami asks some difficult questions about Muslim women and nose jobs in Iran in her article in the Fashion Forward journal article.

ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT. To read the article, pre-order the first edition of the Fashion Forward journal, today. Head to our bio to find the link to our Indiegogo campaign, and make your contribution towards a more inclusive fashion system.

https://igg.me/at/fashionforward/x/28967575 #/

05/28/2022

ONLY 1 WEEK LEFT! Grab your copy of the inaugural issue of the Fashion Forward journal today! Link in bio to our INDIEGOGO to access fresh, though-provoking, and inspiring articles by our global crew of contributors.

https://igg.me/at/fashionforward/x/28967575 #/

05/27/2022

While digital fashion is rapidly making headways to mainstream media, and is celebrated as an environmentally friendly mode of consumption, its social impacts are often overlooked. Fashion Forward founders Sara Emilia Bernat and Doris Domoszlai-Lantner have collaborated on a piece that investigates the many effects of online dressing, especially in regards to marginalized communities. Image courtesy of DressX.

To read the article, pre-order the first edition of the Fashion Forward journal, today. Head to our bio to find the link to our Indiegogo campaign, and make your contribution towards a more inclusive fashion system.

05/26/2022

Sew Her Name is a social justice project by Kate Sekules , a PhD researcher and mending activist. Kate created Sew Her Name in response to the Say Her Name social movement, founded by her personal hero, one of the founders of Critical Race Theory (CRT), Kimberlé Crenshaw, which seeks to raise awareness about the disproportionately high percentage of Black female victims of police brutality in the United States. She honors the women and girls who have been hurt and killed by sewing their names onto garments that she mends— serving as an act of “menditation,” a term imbued with her emphasis on meditation and the act of mending clothes, rather than throwing them away. Image courtesy of Kate Sekules.

To read more about this project, pre-order the first edition of the Fashion Forward zine, today. Head to our bio to find the link to our Indiegogo campaign, and make your contribution towards a more inclusive fashion system.

https://igg.me/at/fashionforward/x/28967575 #/

05/25/2022

The Fashion Forward journal is proud to feature the work of Csenge Laszlo, the designer behind the Budapest-based brand Lalone. Csenge creates accessories that celebrate non-conformist and unapologetic fashion. She believes that the many blissful aspects of childhood shouldn't fade away after growing up. Her designs are meant to save those particular features and bring some simple joy to everyday life. However, the creative reuse of childhood memories isn't the only theme of Lalone. Most pieces are upcycled thrift store treasures, redefined with clay and collage printed textiles.

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05/24/2022

While gender neutral fashion design has recently become trendy, its viability remains questionable. Trans fashion brand Both& Apparel founder Finnegan Shepard sat down with us to discuss where gender neutral design fails to deliver to the trans community, and what functional and emotional needs this consumer group seeks to satisfy. Image courtesy of Finnegan Shepard.

To read the interview, pre-order the first edition of the Fashion Forward zine, today. Head to our bio to find the link to our Indiegogo campaign, and make your contribution towards a more inclusive fashion system.

https://igg.me/at/fashionforward/x/28967575 #/

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05/21/2022

ONLY 2 WEEKS LEFT! Grab your copy of the inaugural issue of the Fashion Forward journal today! Link in bio to our INDIEGOGO to access fresh, though-provoking, and inspiring articles by our global crew of contributors.

https://igg.me/at/fashionforward/x/28967575 #/

05/20/2022

Growing up in the post-communist Romania, designer Borbala Ferencz Bori Ferencz reached for the most common material, trash, when designing her first garments. Over the years, realizing that she is not alone in the journey of turning waste into treasure, she tapped into the global community of upcyclers. A community organizer, educator, and fierce DIY warrior, she is now sharing a step-by-step guide and pattern to a piece that anyone can make with ease at home, using their unwanted garments. Image courtesy of Borbala.

To get your pattern, pre-order the first edition of the Fashion Forward zine, today. Head to our bio to find the link to our Indiegogo campaign, and make your contribution towards a more inclusive fashion system.

https://igg.me/at/fashionforward/x/28967575 #/

05/19/2022

How can costuming choices affect storytelling in film? Fashion Forward fellow Eleonora Dal Bosco explores the topic in her article on the q***rness and fashion in two classic pieces of Italian cinema.

Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti was known for creating jaw-dropping, scandalous films that pushed the limits of cinematography, especially for his time. The q***r storylines in The Damned and Death in Venice are strengthened by the costumes, which Eleonora argues fetishizes men's uniforms, including N**i army uniforms and the ubiquitous three-piece suit.

To read the article, pre-order the first edition of the Fashion Forward zine, today. Head to our bio to find the link to our Indiegogo campaign, and make your contribution towards a more inclusive fashion system.

https://igg.me/at/fashionforward/x/28967575 #/

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