About the
Fashion Research Institute, Inc.
FRI's mission is
to research and develop products and systems for the fashion industry that
sweepingly address traditionally wasteful, environmentally unsound and
unsafe business and production methods. Current research foci
include sustainable & replicable eco-fashion processes which include
optimizing the process of obtaining high-viscosity cellulose in order to
create new cellulose-derivative forms of rayon and other man-made
non-petrochemical-based fibers; and developing Engineered EcotextilesTM
which reduce the carbon footprint and effluent discharge by more than 1/4
over traditional rayon and natural fiber development.
FRI is researching and
developing new technology infrastructures using web 3.0 and virtual
worlds, that will reduce related fashion industry production landfill
wastes and by-products to up to 1/3 over traditional fashion production
methods . FRI's goal is to research and develop bio-renewable,
sustainable, multi-channel production pipelines for the fashion industry,
which will change the way the industry handles raw materials, processed
materials, product design methodology, and product tracking technology.
