Zoë Goetzmann

createmagazine.com — "If you ask Robyn, she can tell you all about her candy obsession, "I love candy and I always have candy on me, in my bag, in my house, everywhere!"

condenastcollege.ac.uk — The Master’s Programme at Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design hosted a two-day conference via Zoom for its students entitled, “Fashioning Change,” delving into how the fashion industry, media brands and companies are adapting to this ‘new normal.’ Topics ranged from audience research, trend-forecasting, consumer behaviour and insights, brand strategy and management, as well as creative story-telling.

condenastcollege.ac.uk — ‘Radical Transparency’ is an industry buzzword first addressed in The State of Fashion 2019, a report compiled by the Business of Fashion (BoF) and McKinsey & Co. This term has since found new relevancy in the midst of COVID-19 as fashion brands, companies and consumers adapt to the “new normal”, tackling the ideas of overconsumption and sustainability by addressing the needs of the ‘conscious consumer’ during this period of extreme anxiety and uncertainty.

condenastcollege.ac.uk — “Fashion will be customizable,” predicts 3D shoe wear designer Annie Foo, when asked what the future of fashion will look like at last week’s Future Fashion Textile Technology event which took place at the Stratford Hotel in London, co-hosted by Hobs 3D, Women in 3D Printing, The Trampery and the Stratford. After the event, I sat down briefly with Foo to discuss her thoughts on 3D printing, sustainability, zero waste and customizable fashion.

createmagazine.com — That is the question that artist Laurence de Valmy strives to answer through her painting series entitled POST, a project that she started at the end of 2016 through which she imagines what it would be like if famous artists from history used Instagram to promote their artwork as well as to connect with other notable artist friends and colleagues.

Artsy — "Instagram is hard work," she explains. "Doing my art is hard work. It's not [as if] the talent magically arrived and I had 10,000 followers. Every single day, I was working on it." Powell sells her work for figures between $500 and $11,000, and receives about two sales inquiries per day.

condenastcollege.ac.uk — Upon completing the Sustainable Fashion Glossary workshop, MA Fashion Media Practice: Fashion Journalism student, Zoe Goetzmann writes about the need for a common fashion language system. In times when the fashion industry has become increasingly unregulated in its current business practices - the need for a common language system (such as a glossary) - represents a necessary ideal for industry players who wish to incite a more communicative, transparent landscape.

psykhefashion.com — Masks, whose functional value is dubious, have always inherently exuded a sense of 'stay away', but their newfound popularity sheds light on our unique attachments to specific items of clothing that satisfy our human need to either create distance, or draw others in.