Why do loved clothes last? Mending and repair activities help stretch garments into their mature, most-loved life. In fact, it encompasses a larger maker movement and is the substance to Fashion ...

One dusty family photo album in my attic holds black-and-white snapshots of my mother and grandmother darning their socks in the early 1950s. My mother told me they’d stuff the socks with burned-out ...

Find out how clothing repair, visible mending, and repair culture fashion are influencing sustainable fashion and changing the way people value their wardrobes.

In 2015 Yoko Ono installed her “Mend Piece,” where shards of broken china, little spools of thread, and plastic bottles of Elmer’s glue were offered up for visitors to reassemble as they liked. It was ...

Simply sign up to the Sustainability myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I was walking through the streets of San Francisco in 2000 as a young artist when the idea for a sewing project ...

President Donald Trump participates in a Roundtable at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the U.S. Army War College. by Jenn Barger, Checkbook.org One dusty family photo album in my ...

Do you remember denim iron-on patches and visible darning? Just a generation or two ago, people mended clothes, and if they couldn't use something, or if a shirt was far too worn for reclaiming, the ...

Makayla Wray, 29, an East Village tailor, works in Chinatown for an upscale designer during the day. But Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. until dark, she’s a street seamstress working ...