Dr Sass Brown
Previously the Founding Dean of the Dubai Institute of Design (DID) and Innovation, Sass Brown is the Course Leader for Kingston University London’s MA in Sustainable Fashion Business and Practices. Brown completed her PhD in 2021 on Global Artisanship and Models of Sustainable Development. Prior to joining DIDI, Sass was the Interim Dean for the Fashion Institute of Technology’s School of Art and Design in New York, where she oversaw seventeen design departments. As a researcher, writer and educator, Brown’s area of expertise is ethical fashion in all its forms from slow design and heritage craft skills to recycling, resuse, alternative business models and ethical practices. Her publications include the books Eco Fashion and ReFashioned for British publisher Laurence King, simultaneously publishing one of the early ethical fashion websites - EcoFashionTalk, now long since archived, but which connected the work of designers around the world challenging the system through more conscious designs.
About
Sass Brown has published papers and spoken around the world on the topic of sustainable fashion, has served as a sustainable design advisor to women's cooperatives, educational institutions, governmental agencies, NGO's and small and medium sized enterprises around the world. She was an advisor to Sustainia100, the Danish sustainable solutions guide, and an Associate Design Researcher on the MISTRA Future Fashion educational consortium that advises integration of sustainable practices into the mainstream fashion industry, through the open-source platform the Textile Toolbox.
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For a talk, panel or advisement, go directly to Sass Brown’s professional site at https://www.sassbrown.org/
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