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How Fashion Brands Utilize Social Media to Greenwash Consumers
By Lindsey Foust. What the world needs is transformative, mountain-moving, revolutionary change: not a product that falsely claims to be...
SFI Blog Team
Apr 26, 20219 min read
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Dye Pollution and Solutions
Written by designer Sarah Malas. Photo from Carmen Busquets. Entire rivers are running black in China. Flooding in Indonesia causes the...
SFI Blog Team
Feb 26, 20214 min read
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I am not a product.
Written by designer Lindsey Foust. The Consumer Is Not A Person. The Consumer is one role that a person plays. I believe that it is...
SFI Blog Team
Feb 18, 20217 min read
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The Consumer Is Not A Person. The Consumer is one role that a person plays.
Written by Sarah Malas. Education The Consumer is not a Person. The Consumer is a role that a person plays. People are not what they own,...
SFI Blog Team
Feb 14, 20215 min read
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What is fashion without suffering?
Written by fashion designer Quinn Mills. What would fashion be without sexism? Trauma? Shame? Fantasy? Without these four things, the...
SFI Blog Team
Jan 30, 20213 min read
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Why I deserve to be paid.
A reflection by Emily Herrmann. I deserve to be compensated for my time, experience, and skills because I have invested my time and...
SFI Blog Team
Jan 19, 20215 min read
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Drowning in Clothing
By Kat Coleman “Confronting the sustainability imperative will inspire the future of fashion. A future that is not linear, but circular....
SFI Blog Team
Jul 7, 202010 min read
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Racism in Fast Fashion
Written by Emily Herrmann As the Sustainable Fashion Initiative unlearns, learns, and finds our footing in the antiracism movement, we...
SFI Blog Team
Jun 30, 20203 min read
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Letter to Partners and Supporters
Thank you for reaching out with your concerns. The Sustainable Fashion Initiative’s Executive Coalition has given a great deal of thought...
SFI Blog Team
Aug 16, 20194 min read
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IN THE MAKING: INTERVIEW WITH ASHLEY KUBLEY
Interviewer: Taylor Teutsch Interviewee: Ashley Kubley, Associate Professor, DAAP Fashion Design Program Ashley Kubley is an Assistant...
SFI Blog Team
Aug 9, 20194 min read
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To Tee or Not To Tee
By: Kalea Lucas Every year thousands of young adults go to games and join groups where t-shirts are distributed. Many of these shirts...
SFI Blog Team
Apr 23, 20193 min read
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The Value of Craft: Interview with Arti Sandhu
Interviewer: Jennifer Murray Interviewee: Arti Sandhu, Associate Professor, DAAP Fashion Program J: To start, I’d like to know more about...
SFI Blog Team
Feb 25, 201915 min read
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How to Host a Clothing Swap
By: Jade Wilson Photography By: Alison Boya What You Need -clothes -a location for the event -tables and racks to hold the clothes...
SFI Blog Team
Feb 10, 20193 min read
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Interview With Master of Motivation and Style: Sarah Slutsky
By: Julia Bond and Niyah Simone On November 16th, stylist Sarah Slutsky sat down with students Julia and Niyah to discuss her experience...
SFI Blog Team
Jan 7, 201924 min read
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Creating Memories - The Black Market Photoshoot
Clothing swaps are becoming commonplace on college campuses across the US. They offer an attractive introduction to sustainability issues...
SFI Blog Team
Dec 31, 20182 min read
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The Future of SFI : A Sit-down With Dr. Gjoko Muratovski
Written By: Jade Wilson in collaboration with Meesh Strauss and Draven Peña This past semester the Sustainable Fashion Initiative (SFI)...
SFI Blog Team
Dec 21, 20188 min read
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Daniel Siverstein
Welcome to SFI's first official podcast! We were pumped to interview Daniel of Zero Waste Daniel when he came to town to give a lecture...
SFI Blog Team
Nov 14, 20181 min read
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Camille Tagle, FABSCRAP
WRITTEN BY: JENNIFER MURRAY Camille Tagle is the Director of Reuse Partnerships for FabScrap in NYC. She recently visited DAAP, alongside...
SFI Blog Team
Nov 12, 201810 min read
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The Wonderful in Waste
Written by: Payton Marshall The dictionary defines waste as “a material, substance, or by-product eliminated or discarded as no longer...
SFI Blog Team
Oct 28, 20183 min read
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Woven Candy
Written by Cass White Over the summer I created WovenCandy as an outlet to share and store my projects and collections that I had started...
SFI Blog Team
Oct 6, 20182 min read
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