Fashion Innovation

2011-04-22T07:55:00.000-07:00

TRENDTABLET.COM is the social media platform designed and curated by Lidewij Edelkoort. This tool explains how trends grow, evolve and flow; helping us to better perceive and understand they interact with our daily life.
What I found interesting in this site is the sustainable and Eco-fashion approach.

DIY Couture for all

2010-07-25T14:29:00.000-07:00

In the quest to sew a piece of well-fitting fashion for yourself, finding the right pattern can often be the most time-consuming part. To simplify this stress, DIY Couture offers straightforward advice for beginning sewers to skilled seamstresses alike.

Apparel Industry to Rate on Sustainability

2010-07-25T14:18:00.000-07:00

Judging by the recent actions of companies like Walmart and Samsung, sustainability indexes (aka green supply chain rating systems) are the next big thing in corporate social responsibility. So it isn't all that surprising that a group of 100 retailers and apparel brands are joining together to form an industry-wide Eco Index--a software-based tool that allows companies to track product impacts through a series of questions on labor and environmental efforts.
For the complete article HERE

NYC designers gather for eco-savvy workshops on how to work together

2010-05-18T07:36:00.000-07:00

This weekend, New York's Toda Design Studio opens its doors to for a workshop series under the heading "Sustainable Exchange: Methods and Practices for Collaborative Partnerships." Organized by designer Megan Howard, the three-day event features local artists and fashion designers who will share how they utilize sustainable design in their work.
Read More here

On Dress for One Cause

2009-12-05T15:24:00.000-08:00

I fell in love with this project from the first moment I landed on his Web site, not only a very cool and innovative fashion concept "one dress for one year" and lots of accessories to compliment and create each day a new look... but the power of one's will to make a small change becoming a community of fashion lovers common cause.
I present you... "The Uniform Project"

The Uniform Project Trailer from The Uniform Project on Vimeo.

Textile Scraps Into Clothing

2009-09-06T17:15:00.000-07:00

American Apparel is attracting attention (as usual) for selling its Bag-O-Scraps to consumers, but a new company called Looptworks is actually taking excess textile waste and turning it into limited edition clothing. In other words, the company is trying to make trash a coveted item.
According to Looptworks, Americans toss out over 11 million tons of textile waste each year, or about 10 pounds of waste per person. All that waste ends up in already-overstuffed landfills. So Looptworks is launching a collection of 20 jackets, hoodies, shirts and skirts this fall that are made completely out of excess material. Since limited amounts of material are available to make each item, the clothes are designated as numbered limited editions.
The founders of Looptworks aren't a bunch of clothing industry newbies, either. They have experience working for companies like Nike, Adidas, and Royal Robbins, which means the upcycled clothing might actually be attractive enough to wear.
Looptworks isn't the first company to manufacture upcycled goods--TerraCycle takes that honor--but it is the first clothing line to exclusively use textile waste that would otherwise end up in the garbage. Keep an eye on the Looptworks Web site in the coming weeks to find out what a t-shirt made of scraps from the factory floor looks like.

Also see: Looptworks

BY Ariel Schwartz
Originally posted on Fast Company

Fabric That Works Just Like a Pine Cone

2009-08-14T08:58:00.000-07:00

A textile developed in Britain has pores that open when it's wet, and sheaves that close up when it's dry.

We all hate wet clothes, but why are they so uncomfortable? A materials engineer would tell you: Not only is your skin getting wet, but the function of the material breaks down when it's soaked, because the wet fibers plump up with water. Porosity goes down, and thus, a really wet jacket takes exponentially longer to dry than a merely damp one--and it feels gross on your skin.

Dr. Veronika Kapsali, the founder of MMT and an expert on bio-mimetic fabrics, thinks she found a solution that's inspired by pine cones, which only open when the air is dry. (Pine cones do that because its easier for seeds to spread and germinate when its dry.) Unlike regular fabrics, Kapsali's invention becomes more porous when it's wet out, so that clothes might not feel as damp. When it's dry, the tiny sheaves in the fabric open up, reducing how permeable it is to air and improving the insulating properties.

For more info see: The Discovery channel Blog or here

Follow the Trail

2009-05-24T17:33:00.000-07:00

MADE-BY Track&Trace follows the trail of your clothes. With the MADE-BY code in your garment you can find out where your garment was made and by whom. They can’t guarantee that all their clothes have been manufactured in a 100% clean and honest way. But in the meantime, they show their progress, by being the very first system to trace the origin of clothes.

Eco-sustainability in Fashion

2009-02-02T06:48:00.000-08:00

London-based designer Mark Liu doesn’t like waste. He has developed a unique cutting technique designed to save 15% of the material used to make garments. Not only does discarded fabric clog our landfills, it represents unrealized profits.

His Zero Waste line proves that eco-sustainability and fashion can happily coexist. Pushing the eco-friendly boundaries leads to innovation and style improvements.

Were will it take us?

2008-11-23T11:10:00.000-08:00

The fashion industry vary each day, and our dreams and career goals change as well. As we grew up and learn the variety of chances we can get our hands on it doesn't mean that because we are not doing our DREAM after college fashion job, it means that we don't have a successful fashion career. A grate example is in this panel, and when you understand that the fashion industry is much more than cutting and draping; moving and getting advantage of the opportunities will take you to your dream job.

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Fashion AND Innovation

2008-10-20T07:19:00.000-07:00

Fashion has always been more about ART then Strategy, where will innovation be coming from?

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: brand luxury)

Create with a Cause

2008-10-15T07:17:00.000-07:00

The design world makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources used, and understanding of priorities. We as designers have an unprecedented opportunity to use our skills to make a meaningful and sustainable change in the world in terms of a social and economic context, only by thinking of creating within accountability.
Here are some examples of products or companies that were created in order to fight local poverty.
SMATERIA
EDUN LIVE
MISERICORDIA
EDUN
among many countless others...

Opportunity

2008-10-05T18:02:00.000-07:00

The world we hope for will be created by the new generation...
Lets help them understand we can help we can be a stepping stone not only in being an ECO friendly industry as well as society, we can use our knowledge and our power as well as technologies and Work focusing towards getting people out of poverty by giving them the opportunity.

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Virtual changing room

2008-09-27T13:22:00.000-07:00

The in store experience has come to changing room where it's transformed to a single panel (like a mirror) which reflects the user. These users can then use simple arm and hand gestures to ‘try on’ any apparel in the store. The user can also take a photo of any selected outfit and have it sent to their mobile phone or email.
Can you see yourself trying on the all store... without taking your clothes off...

Fashion goes GREEN

2008-09-21T10:42:00.000-07:00

The need to live in sustainability has been expressed as the needs of living without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, and the ECO friendly products are becoming more and more essential in our day to day lives, most of us look to get on this trend witch we find more then hip or cool... we begin to understand it's importance.
Here are examples of how the fashion Industry is going green, without compromising it's standards of aesthetics.

Here a quick break down on organic fabrics:

WIKI... FOR Sewing patterns and fashion...!?!?!

2008-09-15T05:42:00.000-07:00

There is a social network out the web 2.0 where professional and amateur designers are creating WIKI style, a database of patterns and terms... check it out a grate tool for beginners advanced and curios people that just like to be in the know. http://www.burdastyle.com/

“Fallen Shadows”

2008-09-13T18:18:00.000-07:00

PRADA's new way of promoting, with a unique promotional twist, they presented its Fall 2008 collection with “Fallen Shadows”, a short animated film which was screened in front of a very exclusive crowd in New York City.
Designers today are really looking to be available in every way, keeping vanguard with new technologies.

Patternmaking

2008-09-07T15:25:00.000-07:00

Image taken from: http://shop.sans.name/pieces/

INNOVATIVE Patterns are really hard to find. Las summer the company SANS took a step forward into patternmaking innovation, later to sell the pattern to whom is it rested in making his own sold out style.

A YouTube Catwalk

2008-09-06T12:06:00.000-07:00

Today in the web 2.0 revolution that we are experimenting, it's no surprise that the Fashion Industry will be getting curios abut it's outcome.
Here is a designer that decided to break the unwritten 'law' of fashion shows and posted his own catwalk showcase on the You Tube platform.