{"id":17805,"date":"2024-09-06T17:37:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/?p=17805"},"modified":"2024-09-11T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T20:42:51","slug":"dress-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/dress-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"DRESS SENSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Sarah Montague<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you ask me, \u2018are you a fashion designer?\u2019,&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#8217;m like, \u2018No, I&#8217;m a designer.&nbsp;&nbsp;And I like to find solutions to problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014Carolina Obergon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fashion industry&nbsp;is really reinforcing this idea that morality and ethics is something that you can just buy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014Ruth Donagher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carolina Obregon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Fashion at Parsons.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ruth Donagher, who studied with Obregon, is a dual-degree student who finished her Parsons degree in fashion design in Spring 2024 and will be in the Environmental Studies department at Lang starting this Fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you\u2019ve heard from them, you will never think of the clothes on your back the same way, and you might even change what you are putting on your back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are used to thinking of clothing as apparel, ornamentation, or just part of day-to-day life, these two women will help you to understand them as parts of complex systems; subject to a moral compass; and agents of change.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Long Road to the Right Place<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Obregon_headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17807\" style=\"width:314px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>When Obregon was thirteen she came on a trip to New York with her parents, and had an epiphany:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was really enthralled with New York City.&nbsp;&nbsp;Back then, It was a bit more chaotic and crazy city than it is today. And It was just a life-turning moment. I saw this, and thought, \u2018Oh, my God! I want to be a fashion designer.\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;I don&#8217;t know where that came from, because in my family, nobody is into fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obergon\u2019s path was set, but the route was far from straight.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were few opportunities to study fashion in Columbia, so she started in a trade school in Boulder, but soon was at Parson\u2019s from which she has an associate degree in fashion.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For a time, Obergon was in the industry, \u201cI had a passion, had my own line in handbags that I produced in Mexico, and then I sold in specialty boutiques in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, something was bothering Obergon, morally.&nbsp;&nbsp;She wasn\u2019t happy with the industry, and the next stage of her progress took her to Finland and a degree in sustainability and fashion.&nbsp;&nbsp;That gave her a context, and a vocabulary, for things she had intuited:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a very stimulating and stressful environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;At the same time, I just felt that the treatment back then of those people that would work for the brands that I worked with. was not right. So I felt that there was something there that was like kind of eating me or eating my passion for fashion and I questioned it, and I questioned more as a very personal individual level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The questions made Obergon realize she had to be part of the answer, as she asked herself<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c What am I doing? Is it helping anybody? How can I help the communities that I&#8217;m part of?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parsons is now one of those communities, and Obregon\u2019s course, Sustainable Systems, is shaped by a core understanding that came to her during her own educational journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo my interest in systems came from the masters I did in Finland [at the Aalto University School of the Arts, Design, and Architecture in Helsinki.]&nbsp;I had a professor who was an engineer, who worked at IBM on \u201csystems focus.\u201d I had never heard about systems and had really no knowledge of how systems had any correlation with the fashion industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the professor, drawing on the seminal work&nbsp;<em>Thinking in Systems<\/em>, by Donella Meadows, was really good at explaining how we live in the systems, but in industry\u2014fashion and in other industries&#8211;we work in silos where we kind of are not permitted to move to the other systems. But we do move in those systems.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was for me the first time that I encountered a process and a toolkit to look at design in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked her to talk a bit more about what exactly a \u201csystem\u201d is.&nbsp;&nbsp;Is it, for example,&nbsp;&nbsp;a social construct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, it&#8217;s a social construct, but it&#8217;s also an environmental. And it&#8217;s also financial.&nbsp;&nbsp;And our bodies are a perfect example.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;It became clear that the concept crosses boundaries and creates a culture of analogy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur bodies have different systems, that have to work in in unison and in synchronicity.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, when you think about an industry as complex as the fashion industry, it\u2019s like a huge human body with overlapping \u2018systems\u2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;The many, many people that work in fashion all over the world would be one system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then you have all of these different fibers that are come from different parts of the world. So that would be an agricultural system if we&#8217;re talking about natural fibers, or we can also talk about the industrial system, because you have fibers that come from petroleum and from fossil fuels, and they are in an industrial system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Factories\u2014for fiber production, dyeing, assembling, etc.,&nbsp;&nbsp;are also systems, are the many facets of the marketplace.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s this vast inter-connectedness, and the responsibilities it generates, that Obergon wants her students to be aware of.&nbsp;&nbsp;And to realize that they can be agents of change:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have to have a wide understanding of systems within the different pathways that [students] might take at Parsons: textiles; communication; design strategies; architecture; any course.&nbsp;&nbsp;So what we do when teaching \u201csystems\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;is give them a wide body of knowledge, and diverse tools, that then they can apply in their own programs or in their own processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I call them \u2018agents of change\u2019 because in any of these different pathways they can really they have agency, and they have opportunities to change systems and processes that have always been done in the same way, the status quo.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obergon has been heartened by some recent developments in the industry at both the small and large scales: the establishment of mycoworks, which promotes mushroom-based production; and Ralph Lauren\u2019s recent collaboration with the Indigenous community.&nbsp;&nbsp;Which, as far as she\u2019s concerned, means that parts of the industry are at last operating from a core creative mission:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDesigners look at problems as opportunities, opportunities to change those problems that have been embedded in our different systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1657\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17810\" style=\"width:389px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign3.jpg 1657w, https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign3-1618x2000.jpg 1618w, https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign3-768x949.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign3-1243x1536.jpg 1243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1657px) 100vw, 1657px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The Luxury of Less<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One person who really seems to have embraced the role of \u201cagent of change\u201d is Obergon\u2019s former student Ruth Donagher.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A childhood love of drawing, and a growing interest in \u201cthinking about how we adorn ourselves and present ourselves and go about the world,\u201d made fashion design an obvious career choice.&nbsp;&nbsp;But fairly quickly it became framed by a larger context for Donagher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I learned about the climate crisis and about the impact that fashion is having on our world, I&nbsp;&nbsp;realized that there was no way for me to go forward in this industry without knowing what I&#8217;m getting myself into in terms of the responsibility that I would hold as a designer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I first encountered Donagher at the April 2024 Dean\u2019s Honor Symposium, where she gave a presentation based on her senior thesis\u2014an investigation of \u201czero waste\u201d design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause we were assigned a zero waste design project, which is when you create a piece of clothing, and you cut out all the pieces, and none of the original fabric that you purchased is thrown away.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So none of those familiar bins full of \u201cremnants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd initially I was like, \u2018oh, well, I guess this is sort of a fun, one-time design challenge.\u2019 But slowly I began to realize that for hundreds of years, this was the norm. This is the way people always designed clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would make perfect, practical sense In eras where resources were scarce, and even if you were wealthy, amassing goods was complex and expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd I thought, how crazy is it that we teach sustainability as this external thing, outside of the realm of normal fashion production, when in reality any designer has the ability to intuitively tap into and reconnect with it.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17809\" style=\"width:319px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The problem was one of perception\u2014sustainability as distant concept or goal, not part of the everyday work of making.&nbsp;&nbsp;So Donagher set about changing perception in a very practical way:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI created a curriculum for an historical sewing and a zero-waste workshop, and I presented that workshop to many different classes throughout my senior year at Parsons. It was a great combination of learning, of teaching, and also of fashion design.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donagher\u2019s program was designed not only to introduce the idea of deft and unwasteful design, but to actively combat corporation manipulation, a phenomenon known as \u201cgreenwashing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI conducted a lot of surveys with students that I did the workshop with.&nbsp;&nbsp;Around 84 said that it changed their view of greenwashing, which was huge for me. Especially because I think greenwashing was really sort of what I was trying to get at the heart of with this whole project, this idea that we&#8217;re selling sustainability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s something that the industry in a lot of ways has taken away from people and sold back to them, stripping the integrity of ethical and sustainable production and commodifying it and making it just sort of like a sticker that we can slap onto a product.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a world of commoditization, a sense of what\u2019s right becomes just another product:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;re also selling the idea of ethics, because a lot of the time the fashion industry is really reinforcing this idea that morality and ethics is something that you can just buy with sort of no thought to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2319\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign2-2319x3000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17811\" style=\"width:375px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign2-2319x3000.jpg 2319w, https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign2-1546x2000.jpg 1546w, https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign2-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign2-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign2-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/Donagherdesign2-scaled.jpg 1979w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2319px) 100vw, 2319px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a big problem to solve thread by thread, pattern by pattern, but Donagher thinks she\u2019s left a small legacy of change during her time at Parsons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPerceptions among the students were changed. I think 3 out of 4 in the surveys I conducted said that the workshop would impact their own future artistic practice in some way, which is huge for me and very meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donagher\u2019s imagination and resourcefulness have something to do with this, but she also thinks she\u2019s part of a tectonic shift:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI truly do think that the fashion industry as it&#8217;s sort of self-perpetuating right now is not compatible with a livable or sustainable future. So I think that we&#8217;re going to see a really radical restructuring of how we think about mass production\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what about on the smallest scale?&nbsp;&nbsp;Donagher\u2019s presentation included examples of zero-waste garments, and she had one on a dress maker\u2019s dummy in the Starr Foundation Hall where she gave her talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result?&nbsp;&nbsp;Sort of what you might get if Coco Chanel had been raised by the Amish.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sleek, and intriguingly plain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donagher has no immediate plans to market her work; she seems engaged enough in taking the next step in her academic career.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Like Obergon, she has come to think of fashion and sustainability, design and the environment, as coterminous.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Start with a little; change a lot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her Sustainable Systems course Obergon features a strategy called \u201cthe nudge,\u201d derived from an experiment in Denmark that encouraged people to eat healthily by example (i.e., slice an apple so that it becomes just as appealing as a slab of cake).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe nudge is a little push. 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