All Walks Beyond the Catwalk is an initiative founded by Caryn Franklin, Debra Bourne and Erin O’Connor working with influential catwalk designers, top industry creatives and fashion students and their colleges to challenge the fashion industry’s dependence on...
Curated from the hearts and minds of Black women, the Black Beauty Archives encompasses the history of our past, documents the present while imagining the future. Our mission is to preserve, document and celebrate the history of Black Beauty through cosmetics and...
Black Dress is an illustrated platform of achievement of Blacks in the fashion industry. The goal of the initial exhibit was to commemorate and celebrate the contributions of ten Black contemporary fashion designers.
My workshops cover the basics of working with performers of color. I talk about tools, products and problems that performers of color face in the industry. I also do demonstrations. I provide a packet on both hair and makeup that is filled with product...
Everyone wears clothing and participates in consumer culture in some way, yet outside of higher education there are few outlets for critical conversations that take a de-centralized approach to the subject and critically examine clothing as an embodiment of lived...
Perceived as the visual representation of Islam, hijab-wearing Muslim women are often harangued at work, at home and in public life yet are rarely afforded a platform of their own. In books and in the media we are spoken on behalf of often by men, non-hijabis, and...
Hello! This is a bibliography meant to help instructors of design history decenter whiteness in their classes. It’s a Google Doc and anyone is welcome to use it for non-commercial purposes: i.e., to share it, download it, contribute to it, participate in editing...
We believe that design practices function as an instrument for social change, emancipation and self-empowerment. Through the act of design, Palestinian and international practitioners engage in complex politicized realities and empower design as a way to resist...
Documenting the Nameplate is a project celebrating nameplate jewelery culture. We host open-call events where attendees can have their nameplates photographed and share their stories for our forthcoming book. All participants receive a copy of their portrait. In...
WE ARE A GLOBAL MOVEMENT We are Fashion Revolution. We are people from all around the world who make the fashion industry work. We are the people who wear clothes. And we are the people who make them. We are designers, academics, writers, business leaders,...
In June 2015 the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada released its final report detailing the horrific history of church and state-run Indian Residential Schools. “Fashioning Reconciliation” was a response to the TRC's Call to Action to develop...
Not Your Momma's History consults with and aids museums, historical sites, historical societies, private businesses, etc. in developing specialized programming about slavery and the African experience within 18th and 19th century America. NYMH also trains staff...
