as the fashion and costume industries scramble to rebuild designs to new standards, here's a toolkit to work through the compliance requirements

Maine’s PFAS ban isn’t just a policy shift. It’s exposing how deeply fashion relies on invisible chemical engineering to deliver “performance.” The question now is what happens when those chemicals are no longer allowed.

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

Circular Fashion Doesn’t End Plastic. It Circulates It.

The Modern Garment District is now open. Four divisions. One system. Designers Guild, Modern Makers Collective, Creative & Editorial Access, Industry Circle This is not a community. This is infrastructure. We are entering an Open Entry Period for our Founding Phase.

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.