June 13, 2023

NEW Digital Exhibit: Historic White House Wedding Fashion and Design (PR Newswire) (PRESS RELEASE)

PR Newswire: NEW Digital Exhibit: Historic White House Wedding Fashion and Design (PRESS RELEASE). “The White House Historical Association debuts a new digital exhibit today in partnership with New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Something Old, Something New: Eight First Daughters’ Fashionable White House Weddings, examines the wedding fashion and décor choices of eight first daughters.”

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March 26, 2023

Engadget: Levi’s will ‘supplement’ human models with AI-generated fakes

Engadget: Levi’s will ‘supplement’ human models with AI-generated fakes. “Levi’s is partnering with an AI company on computer-generated fashion models to ‘supplement human models.’ The company frames the move as part of a ‘digital transformation journey’ of diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability. Although that sounds noble on the surface, Levi’s is essentially hiring a robot to generate the appearance of diversity while ridding itself of the burden of paying human beings who represent the qualities it wants to be associated with its brand.”

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March 11, 2023

CNN: China censors women modeling lingerie on livestream shopping – so men are doing it

CNN: China censors women modeling lingerie on livestream shopping – so men are doing it. “Donning a sassy piece of silk lingerie, a male model grooves to the beat and forms a heart shape with his fingers during a livestreaming session on Douyin, one of China’s most popular video-sharing platforms. His modeling performance is the latest illustration of the kind of entrepreneurial innovation sometimes needed to bypass China’s rigorous internet censorship, a dragnet that can ensnare seemingly innocuous activities – in this case retailers selling women’s underwear online.”

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January 31, 2023

PR Newswire: Apparel Impact Institute Opens First Call for Applications for the Climate Solutions Portfolio – A New Tool to Deploy Grants from the $250M Fashion Climate Fund (PRESS RELEASE)

PR Newswire: Apparel Impact Institute Opens First Call for Applications for the Climate Solutions Portfolio – A New Tool to Deploy Grants from the $250M Fashion Climate Fund (PRESS RELEASE). “Today, nonprofit organization Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) opens its first call for applications for the Climate Solutions Portfolio, a soon-to-launch registry of proven carbon reduction solutions for the fashion industry.”

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December 25, 2022

CNN: How virtual clothes could help solve fashion’s waste problem

CNN: How virtual clothes could help solve fashion’s waste problem. “The textile and fashion industry creates roughly 92 million tons of waste annually, and digital fashion could have a role in reducing that figure…. For example, a designer could release an item of digital clothing in 10 colors in the metaverse, and use the sales data to inform which colors to use for the real-world version.”

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December 16, 2022

UNESCO: Publication of Textiles and Clothing Volume of the ‘Thematic Collection of the Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Roads’

UNESCO: Publication of Textiles and Clothing Volume of the ‘Thematic Collection of the Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Roads’. “UNESCO is pleased to announce the online publication of the ‘Textiles and Clothing’ volume of the ‘Thematic Collection of the Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Roads’…. Aimed at a broad general audience, this volume on ‘Textiles and Clothing along the Silk Roads’ takes the reader around the world, from Java to West Africa, Scandinavia to the Philippines. It charts a fascinating history, from the ways in which patterns and dyes were elements of cultural imitation, hybridization and exchange, to how particular motifs and symbols were adopted across cultures and used as means to influence.”

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November 17, 2022

Alutiiq Museum: Museum Releases Instructions For Making A Beaded Headdress

Alutiiq Museum: Museum Releases Instructions For Making A Beaded Headdress. “Today, the Alutiiq Museum released instructions for making an Alutiiq-style beaded headdress. A paperback book and four accompanying video tutorials provide step-by-step directions for transforming beads, leather, and thread into the iconic Alutiiq woman’s garment.” A PDF version of the book and the videos are available free on the museum’s Web site.

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October 24, 2022

Hackaday: Render Yourself Invisible To AI With This Adversarial Sweater Of Doom

Hackaday: Render Yourself Invisible To AI With This Adversarial Sweater Of Doom. “Ugly sweater season is rapidly approaching, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. We’ve always been a bit baffled by the tradition of paying top dollar for a loud, obnoxious sweater that gets worn to exactly one social event a year. We don’t judge, of course, but that’s not to say we wouldn’t look a little more favorably on someone’s fashion choice if it were more like this AI-defeating adversarial ugly sweater.”

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August 18, 2022

Virginia Tech: Historical costume descriptors bridge gap between past and present

Virginia Tech: Historical costume descriptors bridge gap between past and present. “The objective is to compare language from the past with new language that we use today to describe costume artifacts across different time periods. The Oris Glisson Historic Costume and Textile Collection will be digitized and made available to the public, increasing accessibility and access.”

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August 6, 2022

Input Magazine: Dior’s debut digital clothing arrives through Gran Turismo 7

Input Magazine: Dior’s debut digital clothing arrives through Gran Turismo 7. “Dior is revving up for its first digital clothing project. The luxury label has partnered with racing game Gran Turismo 7, one of the longest running franchises in the gaming world, to bring its styles to the virtual world. The digital collection was designed by Kim Jones and will include avatar skins and a customized vintage car.”

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July 9, 2022

Penn State: Project receives grant to inventory School of Theatre’s Fashion Archive

Penn State: Project receives grant to inventory School of Theatre’s Fashion Archive. “Carolyn Lucarelli, manager of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies (CVMS) in the College of Arts and Architecture, has received the 2022 Visual Resources Association (VRA) Project Grant. She will use the $3,000 grant to create a digital inventory of the Fashion Archive in collaboration with co-principal investigator Charlene Gross, assistant professor of costume design in the Penn State School of Theatre.”

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June 27, 2022

WWD: Untold Stories of Designers Who Dressed First Ladies Is Focus of New Virtual Exhibition

WWD: Untold Stories of Designers Who Dressed First Ladies Is Focus of New Virtual Exhibition. “Eight unsung and primarily lesser-known seamstresses, dressmakers and fashion designers, who dressed first ladies for some essential public appearances, are getting their due in the new digital exhibition, ‘Glamour and Innovation: The Women Behind the Seams of Fashion at the White House.’”

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