by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Jun 26, 2019 | Fashion+Tech Updates
As we close out Immigrant Heritage Month, we’re re-sharing FIA founder Kenya Wiley’s CNN op-ed on U.S. immigration policy. Kenya penned the opinion piece in 2018, when the current administration once again attempted to end DACA and the International Entrepreneur...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Jun 26, 2019 | Fashion+Tech Updates
Designer and global Latinx influencer Victor Barragán launched BARRAGAN in 2014 — an underground fashion label that plays with gender and identity politics through clothing, while pushing boundaries and questioning established narratives and norms. BARRAGAN’s designs...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Jun 24, 2019 | Fashion+Tech Updates
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Erik Brunetti’s streetwear brand FUCT today, involving a First Amendment challenge to a provision of the Lanham Act prohibiting the registration of “immoral or scandalous” trademarks. Brunetti applied for federal trademark...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Jun 24, 2019 | Fashion+Tech Updates
Yuchen Zhang is a designer, educator, and entrepreneur in wearable technology based in New York City. After working in leading branding firm, Red Antler, Yuchen left branding to earn her masters in Design Technology at the Parsons School of Design. Since graduation,...
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Jun 24, 2019 | Fashion+Tech Updates
Barneys New York and Balenciaga have joined forces for luxury’s latest collaboration — the biodegradable Barneys x Balenciaga “deli bags.” The earth-friendly and compostable bags made of cassava starch will be distributed during the NYC World Pride March on June 30th....
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by Fashion Innovation Alliance | Jun 21, 2019 | Fashion+Tech Updates
We are excited to continue FIA’s celebration of innovative international entrepreneurs with Euveka CEO and Founder Audrey-Laure Bergenthal. Audrey-Laure founded Euveka in 2011 to develop a robot-mannequin that recreates the human body’s diversity — helping to provide...
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