- Oct 17 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Human Ecology Building T01
Fast Fashion Before Fast Fashion: Rethinking Histories of Mass-Produced Clothing
Fast fashion is often understood as a recent business model defined by speed, low cost, and disposability. Yet many of its challenges—labor exploitation, environmental harm, and the normalization of overconsumption—have much deeper historical roots. This talk traces the emergence of “fast fashion” through the lens of nineteenth- and twentieth-century shifts in media, merchandising, and consumer culture at large, showing how notions of “progress” and “prosperity” helped obscure the human and environmental costs of mass-produced clothing
- Oct 3 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Human Ecology Building, T01
Threads: Sustaining India’s Textile Tradition
Threads: Sustaining India’s Textile Traditions features four Indian designers and their collaborations with traditional textiles artisans that produce fashion collections for a contemporary market. Through in-depth interviews and visually stunning footage, this film demonstrates how these committed, creative collaborations innovate traditional textile techniques and reinvigorate the communities who produce them.
Katherine Sender, PhD is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication. She is also a member of Feminist, Gender, and
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- Human Centered Design
- Level T Vitrines, Human Ecology Building
Threads of Progress: 100 Years of Fashion & Innovation
Threads of Progress: 100 Years of Fashion & Innovation celebrates over a century of fashion innovation, education, and outreach at Cornell University, tracing the evolution of the Textiles and Clothing program from its early days in the College of Home Economics to its current home in the Department of Human Centered Design in the Cornell Human Ecology. Visitors will see garments worn and made by students, faculty, and extension agents—from wartime uniforms to Olympic leotards—showcasing
Chih-Chang Chu
Prof. Chih-Chang (C.C.) Chu received his PhD in chemistry from the Florida State University, USA, and joined Cornell as an assistant professor in Aug. 1978. He is the first recipient of the Rebecca Q. Morgan ’60 endowed chair professor in Jan. 2009 at Cornell University, New York, USA, and retired as the Rebecca Q. Morgan ’60 Professor Emeritus in Jan. 2021. Chu is selected by the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) as the year
- Nov 22, 2024
- Holistic Human Health, Social Impact + Justice
Bringing visibility to Indigenous children in development science
In April 2021, psychologist Adam Hoffman co-led a virtual roundtable discussion for child development scholars on studying Native American communities. Hoffman, an assistant professor of psychology at Cornell Human Ecology, had written his dissertation about Cherokee youth, and he and other presenters shared the importance of engaging Indigenous groups in the research process.
Afterward, Hoffman wondered how many developmental science papers had actually been written about Indigenous children and youth. After poring through archives of