Dr. Sass Brown
Sass Brown is a sustainable fashion consultant, offering a boutique consultancy dedicated to sustainable and ethical fashion across business and academia. Working across strategy, education, creative direction and product development in sustainable fashion, business, and culture. Her work is based on over twenty years of experience across stakeholders including academic institutions, NGOs, mission-driven for-profits, artisan collectives, SMEs and governmental agencies around the world. She has worked with big brands to individual designers, artisans, publishers and newspapers, with clients including GAP Inc. She has written content for Vogue Japan, the Guardian, and Selvedge magazine, created educational courses, programmes and modules for the Fashion Institute of Technology, Politecnico di Milano, Kingston University London and London College of Fashion. She has advised women’s cooperatives in Brazil, the creative community in Chile and artisans in Peru.
As a fashion activist, an advocate for systemic change in fashion, 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, reuse, alternative business models and ethical practices. She has published papers and spoken around the world on the topic of sustainable fashion. 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 - Textile Toolbox. Her publications include the books Eco Fashion and ReFashioned for British publishers Laurence King, also published in Italian as well as Spanish and distributed in the US. Academic publications include a chapter in Fashioning Social and Cultural Innovation, the InternationalFoundation of Fashion Technology Institutes (IFFTI), IASDR and the Sustainable Science, Practice and Policy journal.
Previously the Founding Dean of the Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (DIDI), a cross-disciplinary University in partnership with MIT and Parsons the New School, Sass Brown is currently the Programme Leader for the Sustainable Fashion: Business and Practices masters at Kingston University London, a progamme she developed and wrote. 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 the management of 17 design departments. She is a graduate of FIT's Global Fashion Management Master's program and holds her bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design from Ravensbourne College of Art and Design. Brown completed her PhD in January 2021 on Global Artisanship and Models of Sustainable Development.
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