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Join fashion designer and textile design researcher Lynda Grose for the keynote presentation kicking off Anchorage Design Week 2021.

Lynda Grose,Professor of Fashion Design at California College of the Arts + Author ofFashion and Sustainability: Design for Change

Lynda Grose is a designer, educator, author, with more than 25 years of experience in sustainable fashion. She co-founded ESPRIT’s ecollection, the first ecologically responsible clothing line developed by a major corporation, which in the 1990s, framed a reduced-impacts approach to fashion and sustainability. This approach is now adopted industry-wide.

 Grose's professional activity spans design, from craft-based micro-enterprise development, and sustainability workshops and practice-based research, working with business, nonprofit and government organizations. (eg: Georgian Arts and Culture Center, Fashion 4 Good, Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), Gap Inc., United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), The Sustainable Cotton Project (SCP), Levi Strauss and Co., Aid to Artisans, G. Hensler, Turkish Government, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Marketplace India, Patagonia, Organization of American States, (OAS) Greenpeace, 13-Mile Farm, Shayan Craft Center)

Her work has been featured in scores of magazines, books, and periodicals, including Fashion Today (Colin McDowell), Design + Environment (Helen Lewis and John Gertsakis), Eco Chic (Sandy Black), Beyond Green (Jan Brand et al.); Elle, Metropolis, Textile View, and Business Ethics, among others.

A founding board member of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion, Grose serves on the advisory board of Huston Textiles as well as Remake's Transparency Brain Trust.

 Current work focuses on exploring the potential of designing garments to evolve over time. Grose sees design as a potent force for scaffolding sustainable society and is passionate about emergent ways designers and the public will collaborate in this context.

Anchorage Design Week First Friday Kickoff Event: Lynda Grose