Join us on November 13th, from 11-6, in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnold Hall, 55 W 13th street, 2nd floor, for an amazing brunch, inspiring talks, immersive workshops and an open exchange of ideas and iterations.

How can fashion spark inspiration for systems of production and consumption that are inclusive, participatory, abundant, plural, and dedicated to mutual growth and learning?

The event ‘Inclusive Fashion Practices’ hosted by the Fashion track of the Integrated Design program in the School of Design Strategies of Parsons will offer a vivid context to a new generation of artist and designers proposing new models of practice for fashion and our everyday lives moving beyond established notions of fashion that promote exclusivity and scarcity, appropriated by capitalism and staged by the spectacle. It will embrace the inclusive, dynamic and all evasive reality of fashion. Fashion is an expression of our vitality, a celebration of our creativity, our vulnerability and our dedication to share ourselves and be touched by others.

Inclusive Fashion Practices will bring together an exceptional group of practitioners that share an integrated and holistic approach to designing, living and making, and whose premises are joy, beauty, collaboration, play, sharing and open source. The practitioners invited come from different fields of practice, economy, food, community practices, fashion, craft and art.

The event aims to spark discussion and insight about our current models of consumption, production and creation, imagining new models for being in this world, supporting values like love, abundance, respect, sharing and beauty.

participating practitioners:
 

Painted (Saskia van Drimmelen and Margreet Sweerts) 

Michael DiPietro 

Otto von Busch  

Athena Kokoronis

Caroline Woolard

Huong Ngo

Elisa van Joolen

Laura Sansone

Frau Fiber 

Gabi Asfour

Hosted by the students and the faculty of the Fashion Area of Study in the Integrated Design program of Parsons.  

This event has been generously funded by the School of Design Strategies, Parsons and the Mondriaan Foundation, The Netherlands