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Green Fashion was never meant to mean recycled plastic. Green means returning to the earth without harm. Green means systems that sustain life, not extract from it. Somewhere along the way, fashion replaced truth with marketing.

limited case study for designers who want to build ethical and sustainable fashion in a way that can be tested, documented and proven.

What Emerging Designers Actually Need is access to real development work. Our Design Development Program —a time-based system that allows designers to develop their work using real production standards, without guessing their way through the process.

Many vegan materials are still petroleum-based. Plastic, polyurethane, synthetics designed to mimic leather… They may spare animals, but they don’t disappear when we’re done with them. They shed. They persist. They accumulate.

Many emerging designers believe they need to go from zero to 55 immediately — launching a brand, producing inventory, building a website, marketing on social media, and somehow expecting designs to sell without ever going through the process of development and proof of concept.

Americans are starting to question the chemicals in their food, water and personal care products. But one category remains strangely absent from the conversation. Clothing.