Growing concerns about fast fashion have led some to rethink how they handle damaged clothing.

Lily Fulop is the author of Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes, available now from The Countryman Press/W. W. Norton. Fulop also runs the Instagram account ...

Find out how clothing repair, visible mending, and repair culture fashion are influencing sustainable fashion and changing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chances are that each and every one of us has an article of clothing that we love, which also has a rip, tear, broken zipper, missing button, stain, etc. Therefore, the shirt, dress, pants in question ...

So, you ripped a hole in your favorite pair of jeans. (Or worse: your kid ripped a hole in their favorite pair of jeans.) Don’t drop $100 on new Levi’s. Fix them up – with flair. Patching, darning and ...

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 ...

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 ...