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Beyond Cotton and Leather: The Future of Fashion Materials

By Anushree Singh What If Your Clothes Could Grow Instead of Being Manufactured Walk into your wardrobe ten years from now, and the labels on your clothes might tell a very different story. Your jacket may not be crafted from animal leather but grown from mushrooms. The soft blouse you

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Can AI Help Preserve Cultural Fashion?

How Virtual Archives Are Becoming Digital Memory? by Anushree Singh   What an artificial intelligence and virtual archives are reshaping the way we preserve fashion’s cultural identity. Imagine discovering your grandmother’s wedding sari decades from now. The fabric has faded, its intricate embroidery has begun to unravel, and the memories

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Fashion, Cultural Heritage and the Upbringing of AI

By Pamela Vanessa Meixueiro Aguilar Fashion serves as a channel for individual identity and a shared sense of community. In a cultural context, it provides insight into different societal traditions, whether through specific textiles and garment construction or their significance in rituals and everyday life. Despite that, digital documentation of

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Second-hand Fashion: Trend or Transformation?

Can buying used clothes really change the fashion industry? by Anushree Singh WHY THIS MATTERS? The fashion industry produces over 100 billion garments every year (UNEP, 2023) Many are worn only a few times before being discarded (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2017). As clothing consumption rises, so does textile waste. According

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Wool Activewear as a Sustainable Alternative

By Pamela Vanessa Meixueiro Aguilar Within the activewear industry, consumers are looking for more sustainable, high-performance textiles without sacrificing aesthetics. Among the materials gaining attention is wool and more specifically, Merino wool, a natural fiber obtained from Merino sheep, with Australia being the world’s largest producer. While traditionally associated with

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