ValueWalk’s ValueTalks Podcast: “Building a Sustainable Future with Wool”
Jane Philbrick discusses how we can build a sustainable future with wool on this week's ValueTalk podcast hosted by Raul Jordan Panganiban
January 13, 2021
Stamford Magazine: “Clothes Minded”
“If we can model positive change, starting with what we wear, it can help inform and shift the culture,” [Jane Philbrick] says. After drawing this parallel between fashion and the earth, Wear Wool New London was born. She says it “models a new relationship with our world, transforming how our clothes are made, what they’re made of and where we choose to buy them, while simultaneously educating the consumer.”
May 13, 2020
Planet Tracker: “The Emperor Has No Clothes: Toxic Textiles in Today’s Age”
“By adding a new wool scouring facility in Connecticut, for example, U.S. wool production risk and capacity risks could decrease. Decreasing this production risk and capacity risk would empower the U.S. to develop “smart textiles” that would enable the U.S. textiles industry to decrease its negative environmental externalities. Also, a strengthened New England wool economy would meet all four circular economy principles focused on nature-based solutions: it would reduce costs and emissions from production and transport, decrease plastics use, improve clothing utilization rates and increase efficient use of natural resources.”
April 24, 2020
Women’s Wear Daily: “TILL bioFASHIONtech Launches Wool Ecosystem to Help Sheep Farmers”
“The goal is to partner designers with specific farmers to understand what would be the most suitable breed-specific designs. TILL’s founder Jane Philbrick said, ‘These will be fiber-driven, place-driven garments. This also speaks to the urgency of having people wear clothes that reflect the health of our communities and of our ecology.’”
April 8, 2020
Material Source: “Munich Fabric Start – Focus Section 'Sustainable Innovations'“
“GY STUDIO by Gal Yakobovitch is a bio-materiality fashion studio, creating innovative, all natural biomaterials from local food waste and hacking industrial manufacturing techniques to create zero-waste products. 'CT DAIRY' is a project that tackles the issue of a declining dairy industry in Conneticut and explores new sources of revenue for small farms in other industries such as the fashion industry From the Casein she developed a water resistant rubber, which she applied as a protective coating to workwear that is used at the dairy farms. The rubber is natural, biodegradable and water-resistant and made from milked sourced from the farms.”
March 25, 2020
UCRF: “Communique from Local Assembly Connecticut”
“On 7th March 2020, the Connecticut Local Assembly took place. Video and audio recording and other materials of the event are now available here. Thank you to all those who organised and participated!”
March 17, 2020
Rural Route Radio
Sixth-generation Central Nebraska rancher Trent Loos interviewed TILL: bFt artist founder Jane Philbrick for his daily one-hour broadcast Rural Route Radio, aimed at bridging rural and urban America. The lively conversation found common ground with wool.
January 15, 2020
No Kill Magazine: “How TILL: bFt Is Creating Climate Couture”
“This is a great example of a way forward in fashion (not ‘the fashion industry’) that is in harmony with the planet and allows for creativity… Climate Couture's client-focused design and local manufacturing restores vital balance to the designer-garment-community-environment relationship value engineered out of mainstream fashion production and retail.”
November 1, 2019
Dutch Design Week: “CT DAIRY - Fashion and Dairy in Connecticut”
“Connecticut used to have a booming dairy industry that has recently suffered a decline due to the rising prices of milk production, insufficient governmental subsidies and a lack of young farmers. In order to find new revenue sources for small farms we asked can milk serve a function in fashion?”
October 19-27, 2019
Greenwich Time: “CT Startups Launch at Record Pace to Begin 2019”
“Startup TILL hosted the bioFASHIONtech Summit on sustainable fashion run in Stamford in June. The designers had worked at a storefront lab at the Stamford Town Center mall for five months.”
August 6, 2019
No Kill Magazine: “A Few Things We Learned at the bioFASHIONtech Summit”
"From reclamation and recarbonization of the soil (yeah, we're talking about dirt and how we came to love it) to our own gut biomes, to grasses that grow on new fabrics, to bio engineers, poets, writers, scientists, designers collaborating …the bio summit had it all."
August 2, 2019
WGSN: “Three Inspiring Eco Collections from the bioFASHIONtech Summit”
“After a day of thoughtful, critical and inspiring keynotes and panel discussions, the summit was brought to an energetic peak with the debut of three ecological fashion capsule collections, each offering a different take on sustainability… Textiles dyed with food waste; clothes that sprout plants; and workshops to teach consumers how to become makers.”
July 18, 2019
Grounded Visionaries: “TILL, Founded by Jane Philbrick MDes ’16, Hosts Inaugural bioFASHIONtech Summit”
“The summit was the culmination of two months of work at the Stamford Town Center mall where TILL created a bioFASHIONtech lab to investigate bio-based methods for making clothing. ‘We want to make Connecticut the U.S. capital of sustainable fashion by 2022.’”
July 2019
WTNH News 8: “Jane Philbrick, Artist & Founder of TILL, Talks about the Sustainable Clothing Industry”
“Connecticut has always been environmentally forward, the idea of environmental stewardship is part of the brand of this state.”
June 28, 2019
Stamford Advocate: “Dan Haar: A Sustainable, Zero-Waste Feast in Stamford”
“As dusk fell, after a long day of panelists talking bio-sustainable clothing systems and global mindset change, McMaster took over… If the aim was to spark a new industry in Connecticut, it was a powerful debut statement.”
June 27, 2019
WGSN: “Sustainable Futures: Biodesign Communities”
“In 2019, TILL: bioFASHIONtech LAB in Stamford, Connecticut, offers a designer-in-residence programme for recent graduates of Parsons School of Design. Led by young designers, the lab hosts weekly public workshops and in June 2019 held its inaugural summit to present its biodesign collections.”
June 26, 2019
Women’s Wear Daily: “Biotech Materials, Innovation and Fashion Collide at Inaugural Summit in Stamford, Conn.”
“‘If we’re not paying attention to the soil, we’re done,’ Meiklejohn [Transparency and Sustainability Manager, Eileen Fisher] said. ‘There is this crisis that we have to address by supporting farmers that are providing us with healthy food and fiber is the key. A lot of that is through supporting animals. I do think this plant-based agenda and message can be really dangerous. There are a lot of companies that are using that to talk about their raw materials being corn, sugar — that goes back to the monoculture crop. That is not building topsoil, that is not sequestering carbon.’”
June 25, 2019
CT Post: “Dan Haar: Jumpstarting the Eco-Clothing Industry from a Mall Storefront”
"For now, what we’re talking about is a nascent culture of the sort Connecticut desperately needs if it is to revive itself through vibrancy, if it’s to stop losing enterprises to Boston and New York.”
June 19, 2019
Women’s Wear Daily: “Experimental Textiles Designer Jacob Olmedo Welcomes Public to TILL-Supported Design Studio”
“I feel so strongly that as a 21st century artist, the art of our day is reinventing how we live on earth – our systems of energy, mobility, our built environment, fashion and industrial agriculture, These systems have to be reinvented. It’s going to take these people who can imagine the future for real [explains TILL: bFt founder Jane Philbrick].”
October 1, 2018