With Roots in Puerto Rico, Amanda María Forastieri Wants to Build a New Fashion System

Amanda María Forastieri’s namesake label has been in the making for well over two years. But you could say the designer has been preparing for it her whole life. “Fashion design is ancestral for me — dress-making was taught by my grandmother,” she says. “I always knew that fashion design was it.” What Forastieri wasn’t so sure of was the fashion industry: the speed at which things are produced and discarded, the non-stop demand for newness, the exploitation and waste that all creates. Even when she was a fashion design student at Drexel University, she was thinking about all of… Read Full Article