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The º£½ÇÔ­´´ Museum will open Sustainable Fashion: Exploring the Paradox,which will beon exhibit April 8, 2011, through March 18, 2012, in theStager and Blum Galleries. The exhibit is guest curated by Noél Palomo-Lovinski, fashion designer and professor in the School of Fashion Design and Merchandising. Two free public receptions will be held. Guests can attend on Wednesday, April 13, from 3 – 5 p.m. or Thursday, April 14, from 6 – 8 p.m. The museum is open Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.; Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 4:45 p.m. Sustainable Fashion: Exploring the Paradoxis a comprehensive look at sustainable practices in fashion. The multibillion dollar fashion industry is in a powerful position to make significant changes to the social and physical environments in which we live. The problems in creating clothing are overwhelming. They are systemic in all facets of production, retail, maintenance and then disposal, and create a crisis of environmental and social concerns. The designers featured in this exhibition are approaching these problems in their work, and offering design solutions that are both aesthetically pleasing and viable as a fashionable option to the status quo. The exhibition demonstrates the environmental issues that the fashion industry is grappling with, as well as possible solutions for future designers to contemplate in their own work. The exhibition hopes to inform and encourage everyone to re-think their clothing purchases for a more sustainably stylish future. For more information, visit the º£½ÇÔ­´´ Museum website. Posted April 4, 2011