'Re-made In America' Kicks Off NY Fashion Week

Congratulations to Daria Dorosh for the organizing of 

'Re-made in America' which takes place today as part of the official opening 

of New York Fashion Week (image courtesy of Daria Dorosh)

In the context of the Year of the Quilt and the exhibition Super Stars: Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum, Fashion Lab in Process honors the spirit of re-invention with Re-made in America.  This roundtable discussion will be held at the American Folk Art Museum's Branch Location at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th St., on Thursday, February 10th, 4 -7 p.m.

As New York Fashion Week begins at Lincoln Center, different sectors of the design community will come together at AFAM to discuss how fashion is being changed by social consciousness, sustainability, and the fusion of fashion with technology.

What will be the next evolution for fashion? Is sustainability compatible with technology?  Meet the professionals who will discuss these important fashion trends and demonstrate them with examples of their work.

The discussion will take place from 4:30 - 6 p.m., followed by an opportunity to meet the speakers and see their work from 6 - 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Daria Dorosh, PhD, Director of Fashion Lab in Process, is an artist and adjunct faculty member at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, and SMARTlab, Digital Media Institute, University of East London, UK.. She will lead the discussion on sustainability and wearable technology.  

Other esteemed participants include Shima Seiki, Eileen Fisher, Sarah Scaturro, Gayil Nalls, PhD, Jose Marinez, Despina Papadopoulos, Meiling Chen, EKO-LAB (Xing-Zhen Chung-Hilyard and Melissa Kirgan), and Sabine Seymour, PhD.

  

For more information, contact Daria Dorosh at info@fashionlabinprocess.com

HACKING Sustainable Fashion Workshop

Do not miss this collaborative art/fashion workshop at Eyebeam 

What is sustainable fashion? Why are design codes important? How do we decode them? 
Curator Sarah Scaturro and interaction designer Giana González will use these questions as a starting point to work with participants to explore how the code for the sustainable fashion movement can be decoded and reassembled. 

The HACKING Couture explorations will be a starting point for this work in progress. In the past, HACKING Couture has reversed engineered fashion labels to create open participation and entrance for all into the fashion system. Now, this process of hacking fashion labels has been expanded - how can we decode a period and/or a movement in order to re-appropriate it for your own purpose? This collaborative workshop between Hacking Couture and independent curator and sustainable fashion expert Sarah Scaturro will explore how we can collaboratively document, decode and reassemble the Eco-fashion movement.

WEDNESDAY, July 14 from 7pm to 9pm.

This will be an informal group session with refreshments and bold creative sustenance. Register here.

Quicktake: Rodarte Opens at Cooper Hewitt

Quicktake: Rodarte
opens February 11, 2010 on view through March 14, 2010
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

"Rodarte's creations feature complex manipulation of materials and other meticulous techniques evocative of haute couture through an American lens. The Mulleavys deliver emotionally powerful, dynamic collections that interweave extremely hard and delicate elements simultaneously. Recent runway collections have referenced disparate themes, such as the building and taking apart of homes, California Condors, Boris Karloff as Frankenstein, land art and Japanese horror films." via C. Hewitt website

Don't miss Cooper-Hewitt Textile Conservator, Sarah Scaturro's Behind-The-Scenes 'Quicktake' exhibition installation reports.