Fibershed Symposium: Evaluating Factors of Fashion towards Sustainability

By Malia Chang, Apparel Merchandising and Management Undergraduate Student and Research Assistant Fibershed hosted a symposium to discuss the topic “Relationships of Change.” It explored different avenues of the apparel industry that include the topics of people, policy, and materials that have various impacts and contribute to transforming the “soil-to-skin processes.” Critical matters of focus…

Community Outreach with US Wool, Textiles & Demonstrations

During the last week of the LA County Fair in May, I shared US wool research project activities along with my Apparel Research Assistant and recent Cal Poly Pomona alumni, Katia Quiroz. Katia was in my AMM 4630: Apparel Research project course in Fall 2021. Student projects focused on exploring US sheep and wool farms…