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...
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,...
GBC adopts Optitex 3D tool to assist fashion students with pattern making Technology has changed the face of the fashion industry, and the way fashion is taught in school. Marilyn McNeil-Morin, director of fashion exchanges at the George Brown College (GBC) school of fashion studies, said there...
Toronto’s George Brown College announced on Monday plans to expand its Waterfront Campus to include a new facility, much to the benefit of its fashion design students. The new facility is set to open at Daniels Waterfront - City of the Arts, just blocks from George...
New George Brown College facility to help individuals launch careers in fashion industry TORONTO, ON (March 29, 2016) – George Brown College announced today the launch of a new fashion hub that is improving employment opportunities for immigrants and at risk youth in Toronto’s Regent Park...
A Fashion Exchange hub opening Tuesday in Regent Park will be a job and educational opportunity for youth By: Gilbert Ngabo Metro George Brown is coming to Regent Park, and it’s bringing opportunities. With the opening Tuesday of a fashion hub in the community, which has had...