Mission
Our 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.

Our core values include integrity, respect for its business partners, owners, and workers; high value for human life and the conditions those lives are lived in; and a desire to actively, positively change the lives of those who are involved in FRI projects.

The Fashion Research Institute was developed in response to emerging technology that could be applied to problems confronting the fashion industry.  Focusing on issues as diverse as bio-renewable, sustainable multi-channel production pipelines to renovating antiquated product design methodologies, FRI leads the industry through its innovative approaches to common problems plaguing the fashion industry.

FRI is researching and developing new technology infrastructures using web 3.0 and virtual worlds.  These infrastructures will reduce related fashion industry production landfill wastes and by-products to up to 60% over traditional fashion production methods and cut time-to-market for products by as much as six weeks. 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. FRI is an IBM business partner.

We maintain a substantial virtual world presence, with regions in ScienceSim, Fashionable Grid™, and Second Life©. 

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Fashion Research Foundation

Fashionable Grid™

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