Coloring Fashion: Natural and Synthetic Dyeing in Textiles Today - Round Table

Study Fashion Design and Marketing at Parsons The New School for Design part of The New School a university in New York City offering distinguished degree, certificate, and continuing education programs in art and design, liberal arts, management and policy, and the performing arts. School of Fashion | http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/fashion-school As part of the annual Parsons Festival, The School of Fashion at Parsons The New School for Design is pleased to announce Coloring Fashion: Natural and Synthetic Dyeing in Textiles Today. This one day seminar features international experts and discussions on the advantages and disadvantages of historic and contemporary natural and synthetic dyeing. Leaders of the textile, clothing, and fashion sectors are aiming for more ethical, less environmentally harmful, and more socially equitable practices, yet what that involves insofar as textile dyeing is concerned remains difficult to assess. This seminar will explore the matrix of economic, environmental, social, and aesthetic questions associated with Coloring Fashion. Fashion Design BFA - http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/bfa-fashion-design Round Table: Tamara Albu, Martin Bide, Tom Chappel, Anne De La Sayette, David Goldsmith, Lynda Grose, Jody Mckenzie, Laura Sansone, Luciana Scrutchen, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Peter Waeber, Michele Wipplinger. Parsons 560 Fashion Blog | http://fashion.parsons.edu Presentations by experts in the fields of natural and synthetic dyei