George Brown College (GBC) Fashion Exchange (FX) fosters collaboration between fashion educators, industry partners, community organizations, and fashion students from their location in Regent Park, Toronto, Ontario. FX aims to develop a sustainable, socially conscious, and economically viable fashion industry. Recognizing gaps in available talent...
An exciting new lab at George Brown College’s Fashion Exchange (FX) puts a positive new spin on the term “fast fashion.” The Leading Innovation in Fashion Technology lab (FX LIFT) officially opened on October 29, 2019 at the Fashion Exchange in Regent Park. This new facility provides our...
Earlier this month on October 3rd, 2018 SWS Ventures was thrilled to have hosted the Textile Innovation pitch competition at the MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto. This was a collaborative effort with two other supporting partners, the George Brown College Fashion Exchange and the MaRS Catalyst Fund. The objective of this event...
Whether you’re an emerging label or a behemoth like H&M, the name of the fashion game today is sustainability. Consumers increasingly demand to know who made their clothes, and they want to ensure the materials involved are not only high-performing but also ethically sourced and...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Marilyn McNeil-Morin, Director of the Fashion Exchange[/caption] Aug. 7, 2018 Research and production efforts at our Fashion Exchange have received a major boost thanks to $2.5 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s College Industry Innovation Fund (CIIF) awards and the provincial government. Kirsty Duncan,...
In honor of 70 years of Christian Dior fashion, an original exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum launched celebrating the first ten years of Christian Dior haute couture. The museum worked in collaboration with George Brown College to analyze the designer’s creative process and techniques, and to decode the...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Photo, Barbara Kowalski.[/caption] Marilyn McNeil-Morin For bringing fashion manufacturing back to Canada: For five years, the Director of the Fashion Exchange at Toronto’s George Brown College advocated for the creation of a space that could serve as both a technical workshop for design students...
If there is such a glut of clothing on the market, why does so little of it fit actual humans? In this age of big data, it is hard to imagine an industry that would ignore a full third of potential customers. Yet that is exactly...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1086"] Factory head Gagin Singh, left, and director Marilyn McNeil-Morin inside the spacious George Brown Fashion Exchange factory in Regent Park. (NICK KOZAK / TORONTO STAR)[/caption] You don’t use the words gorgeous and factory often in the same sentence, but the gleaming white,...
The George Brown Fashion Exchange has proudly partnered with MaRS Catalyst Fund to back early-stage Canadian startups developing innovations in sustainable fashion technology. Eligible companies are invited to apply to a pitch competition, where selected finalists have a chance to win $10,000 in funding, and...