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Can technology help fashion clean up its act?

  • Written by Suzanne Mancini, Senior Critic, RISD Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design
imageA dress by designer Iris van Herpen, who, with her runway designs, challenges common fashion norms and beliefs.Zach Balbino/flickr, CC BY-ND

Chemical waste, mass production and consumerism are all byproducts of an industrialized global economy.

The fashion industry is no different. Technology has helped the industry meet growing demand by making...

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