Mimi Prober News Today

Mia Bachrack 25 and Prof. Margaret Frey, human centered design, discuss techniques to promote fashion sustainability in the midst of climate change and the pandemic.

Mimi Prober declined to comment on this season’s tempest in a teapot, Bode versus Stan, but like the designers behind both of those brands, she uses antique quilts and textiles in her work and has done so for some time. Her mission is “preservation and taking textile narratives to a new generation through clothing,” she said on a call. The reversible coat, made from a 19th-century boutis, that opens and closes her fall look book, is one example of that idea taking form. Prober designates...