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Fashion
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SUNO-ethical fashion
Read more: SUNO-ethical fashionSUNO is one of the few luxury fashion brands that has been born out of a social cause. Max Osterweis and designer Erin Beatty launched their first collection in the spring of 2009, ” after post-election violence threatened to damage…
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Young Women For Change: Fashion as Activism
Read more: Young Women For Change: Fashion as ActivismFounded in April 2011, Young Women for Change (YWC) is an independent non-profit organization committed to empowering Afghan women and improving their lives through social, economical , political empowerment, participation, awareness and advocacy. YWC was co-founded by Noorjahan Akbar and…
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Articulo 6 (Action 5)
Read more: Articulo 6 (Action 5)MFA Fashion Parsons graduate and fashion designer Lucia Cuba, for her senior collection, created a fashion collection inspired by the victims and used to raise awareness of forced sterilization in Peru. Framed as “actions,” each collection presentation showcased before a…
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Just Fashion: Critical Cases on Social Justice and Fashion
Read more: Just Fashion: Critical Cases on Social Justice and FashionOver the course of a semester, fashion hactivist and fashion social justice scholar, Otto Von Busch, facilitated a course on “Critical Fashion and Social Justice,” where graduate fashion students at Parsons design school researched, contextualized and at times critiqued case…