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Fashion
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Stratasys Envisions The Future of Fashion Through Direct-to-Textile 3D Printing
With support from research platform Re-FREAM, the additive manufacturing giant calls on top industrial designers to rethink everyday accessories with sustainability and inclusion in mind.
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A Fashion Center in East London Looks to Sustainable Economic Regeneration
London-based firm Adams & Sutherland has recently transformed a row of underutilized garages into the fashion hub Poplar Works.
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Experiments in 3-D Printing Yield Iridescent Fashion
A dress by threeASFOUR consists of tiny spherical cells made of photopolymers that refract light, creating an iridescent effect.
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Meet the Nike Space Hippie, a Cannibal Sneaker Made from Trash
The futuristic-funky sneaker collection, which launches this week, is a step toward sustainability and material circularity for the footwear industry.
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Open Style Lab’s Fashion Toolkit Is a Hack-In-A-Box
The lab’s new Hack-Ability Kit offers DIY fashion solutions for people with disabilities.
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MONA and Assemble Create a Fashion School in New Orleans
Called Material Institute, the center offers production space, mentorships, training, and educational programming.
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Virgil Abloh’s MCA Exhibition Reveals the Power—and Limits—of Design Disruption
Hemmed in by quotation marks and material double-entendres, the IIT College of Architecture–educated designer can’t break through the brands he uses to define his work.
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J’Adore OMA! Shohei Shigematsu Designs Exhibition for Dior Retrospective in Denver
For Dior: From Paris to the World, Shigematsu and his team draw from the famed fashion house’s history while employing a high-impact material palette.
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A New Fashion Exhibition in San Francisco Shows That Modest Can Mean Radical
With curving vignettes designed by Hariri & Hariri, Contemporary Muslim Fashion at the de Young Museum aims to upend stereotypes that come with modest dress.
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Leather from Pineapple Leaves? New Sustainable Textiles Tap Unexpected Sources
Textile design is, to say the least, a varied field. High-tech woven wearables seem far removed from efforts to grow climate-beneficial fibers, and further still from more everyday concerns, like improving commercial uph
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How Fashion Can Signify Advances in Textiles’ Performance, Technology, and Ethics
For this six-part series, Metropolis asked Knoll Textile's creative director, Dorothy Cosonas, what inspires her—here's what she told us.
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Shop Talk: Making Sense of Eckhaus Latta at the Whitney
The museum's genre-defying show—its first fashion-themed exhibition in 21 years— is as much about politics as it is about clothing.
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Profiles
New Talent 2018: Nadine Goepfert’s Diverse Practice Encompasses Fashion, Textiles, and Interiors
The Berlin-based designer is propelled by an intense interrogation of materials; her work ranges from table cloths to office interiors.
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David Chipperfield Designs a Stark, Minimalist Store for SSENSE in Montreal
Thanks to its diverse programming, the new store is as much a much a cultural venue as it is a commercial space.
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For the Design of the Met’s Costume Institute Show, Diller Scofidio + Renfro Channel the Sublime—and Mies
'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,' opening today, examines the deep connections between contemporary fashion and faith.
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Amale Andraos on the Fashion Line That Inspires Her Architecture
In contrast to fashion’s often reductive constructions of female identity, the Zero woman is real, with all the complexities that this entails.
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Everlane’s New Soho Flagship Goes Back to Basics—Radically
The e-tailer's first brick-and-mortar store, designed by New York firm Leong Long, embraces its ethos of "radical transparency."
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Snarkitecture Designs Labyrinthine Marble Run for COS
Called Loop, the New York–based designers have created a playful, quarter-mile track for thousands of white glass marbles at a Seoul gallery.
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111 Garments that Changed the Course of Modern Fashion, According to MoMA
From Burberry to the burkini, the museum spotlights the cultural significance of clothing for the first time in seven decades.
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Paola Antonelli on Her Upcoming MoMA Exhibition “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”
The exhibition, which uses a design lens to explore fashion's many functional, aesthetic, and social dimensions, will run from October 01, 2017 to January 28, 2018.