FX Website | Marilyn McNeil-Morin named Women Of The Year 2017
George Brown College’s Fashion Exchange (FX) is a vibrant hub where fashion education, design, production, entrepreneurship and engagement come together under one roof in the heart of downtown Toronto. With global fashion industry facing challenges of over-consumption, exploiting labour force and environmental resources, FX was designed to share the growing impact and become a leader in sustainable fashion production. With the people and the planet in mind, it fosters a new generation of industry leaders - committed, professional, and ethical.
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Marilyn McNeil-Morin named Women Of The Year 2017

13 Sep Marilyn McNeil-Morin named Women Of The Year 2017

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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 and a working manufacturing facility. The space opened in 2016, offering the only practical fashion-production classes in the country while also offering workshop spaces to community members in Regent Park. And this year, McNeil-Morin’s vision finally came to fruition: The Fashion Exchange signed 30 clients, including local designers Heather Campbell and Garrison Bespoke, and hired nine staff (including two from their community outreach program). —S.A.

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