Project Upcycle's 7th annual all-star competition featured six former winners creating red-carpet looks from upcycled materials. Ashley Cushon won the $5,000 top prize with a Victorian-pirate inspired ...

This month in Oakland, color has never been more eruptive than on the corner of Valdez and 24th streets. Creative Growth Art Center’s exhibition “Fashion is the Sunlight that Spotlights Everyone” is a ...

The intersection of music and fashion reached a pivotal moment as SZA, the chart-topping R&B virtuoso, shattered industry conventions by accepting an unprecedented creative leadership position. The ...

Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, Calif., has always had strong ties to fashion, with longtime supporters in editors Kim Hastreiter and Mickey Boardman, showroom owner and designer Stella Ishii, ...

In fashion, creative directors are royalty. Like kings and queens, they’re idolized for their successes and blamed for their failures, while always being gossiped about. The all-time greats—like Karl ...

From LVMH's internal AI factory to a new generation of venture-backed startups rewriting how clothes are designed, discovered ...

Artificial intelligence is now embedded across the fashion industry, accelerating design, predicting trends, and redefining product discovery. From AI-generated apparel patterns to data-optimized ...

AI is rapidly becoming a core driver in fashion design, moving from experimental tools to essential infrastructure for concept creation, visualization, and personalization. From collaborative design ...

When Gabriela Hearst traveled to the Bay Area in April to design costumes for “Carmen” at San Francisco Ballet, she took time to go to Oakland’s Creative Growth Art Center, meet the artists, try on ...

At your typical fashion show, stone-faced models walk the runway before expressionless designers, buyers, and editors. The night before Halloween, at the SoHo studio of New York designer Stella Ishii, ...