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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.

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.

Most “ethical” and “sustainable” fashion brands are not fact-checkable. They are built on marketing language, not verifiable systems.

So excited to be flying to NYC on Sunday to attend the New York New Works Festival with costumes in the headlining act by House Of...