Excerpt from interview with Laura Sansone, assistant professor of Alternative Fashion Systems at Parsons School of Design, about the exhibition, ‘Alternative Fashion Strategies: Design Incubator with Green Eileen’ at Parsons’ Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. Sansone is the creator of New York Textile Lab, an ongoing project that examines environmentally responsible and community-based methods of textile production. > Mae Colburn, “Alternative Fashion Strategies.” Fashion Projects, May 9, 2015.
> Indigo dyeing workshop at the 'Alternative Fashion Strategies’ exhibition. Photo: Chris Hyun Cho
“One highlight for me during this exhibition was having people from the farming community come and actually speak to the students about their experiences as farmers and fabric producers. We were talking about the supply chain and one of the farmers who came actually said, ‘I’m going to start right at the beginning of it, and I’m going to tell you what I feed my sheep,’ and I thought that was so incredible to have fashion and design students sitting there and listening to this and making that connection, that it starts with the fiber that comes from the animal, that it starts with the diet, and how that effects the quality of the fiber and the form.”
