NRM Gallery presents: NEVER STOP MOVING An exhibition in honor of NICKI MULLER March 14 – 28th, 2013 Please join Ariela Kader, Senior in Fine Arts at Parsons and curator for Nicki’s Tribute Show. Reception: March 14, 2013 7:00-9:00 pm NRM Gallery 25 East 13th Street  4th Floor This tribute show strives to present [...]

On Thursday October 11 Dr Kate Fletcher, Reader in Sustainable Fashion at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion delivered the lecture Alternative Fashion Systems as part of the Stephan Weiss Memorial Lecture series. The series was introduced by Alison Mears, Dean of the School of Design Strategies, and Kate was introduced by [...]

October 11th, 6pm: Kate Fletcher “Alternative Fashion Systems” Fashion Auditorium, 560 Seventh Avenue, 2nd floor This lecture is part of the Stephan Weiss Lecture Series Kate Fletcher explores alternative fashion systems that value a broader range of fashion activity than is currently recognized, drawing upon examples of the ”craft of use” in her project Local [...]

Project Linus is an organization that provides hand made blankets for children in need. This includes children who have illnesses, experienced trauma, or been abused. As an organization, their goal is to provide security to these children through the protection, warmth, and comfort of a blanket. The club, Fashion & Mentoring, got together in May [...]

We’ll post a reminder when the applications for 2013 open in a few weeks in April. In the meanwhile, all and any sustainability-minded students, this is something to keep an eye out on: the Hessnature – Humanity in Fashion Award 2013. The Humanity in Fashion Award is the design prize for green fashion. It recognizes [...]

The weekend of October 28-30 the Global Sustainability Jam will take place around the world. Here in New York City, Parsons and more specifically, the Parsons Desis Lab, is very much involved. Contact Cameron Tonkinwise (details at the NYC link above) if you want to be involved. You should!

Student designed zero-waste dress. Larisa Iosilevich is a Fashion Instructor at Parsons the New School for Design. In addition to teaching, she works as a designer, a pattern maker, and as a sample maker at Saxon Textile Corporation.  At Parsons she teaches construction courses, a design studio experimental course, as well as a fashion techniques [...]

Jonathan Kyle Farmer and I were honored to be invited to speak as part of the public program of the Fashion Art Biennale in Seoul, South Korea, last week. The Biennale is organized by The Korea Fashion & Culture Association, and the exhibition was housed at the amazing Seoul Arts Center. The Biennale theme drew [...]

“Going green” is a relatively new phenomenon in the world of fashion. Due to many reasons, including political, economic, and cultural, the fashion industry could no longer shy away from the harsh effects of producing clothing, whether at the textiles level, final production, or at the end of the line, with the effect that shipping [...]