Manifesto

The fashion industry produces 30 billion unsold garments every year. That number is not a tragedy. It is a design feature — and I have spent 15 years inside production at the highest levels watching it play out in real time. I am Gina Vincenza Van Epps, Emmy Award-winning celebrity seamstress, author of the Modern Garment District Model, and the person behind Shakira's Super Bowl Halftime Show costumes. I built a system to fix what is broken. Now I am putting the tools in you

Fashion is not failing because of creativity. It is failing because of how garments are developed, produced and scaled. For decades, the industry has operated on a model built around forecasting—predicting what people might want months in advance, producing at scale and hoping it sells.