Donna Maione
Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, United States
Practicing mender studying repair economies and place-based practices that keep clothes in use. With a background as a clothing designer, Donna researches fashion's overlooked side through practice, treating repair as a critical part of circular design and bringing it to the forefront at design inception rather than at the end of a product's
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About the practice
I'm a design researcher and practitioner focused on repair and mend. After 20+ years as a clothing designer, I pivoted to research the neglected, often forgotten side of fashion: mending. Repair is a critical part of designing for circularity, yet it's usually treated as something that happens at the end of a product's useful life rather than at the moment of design inception. I mend, and I study mending economies and the place-based practices that keep clothes in use and keep repair knowledge alive in communities.
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