About 

My name is Paige Cook and I am a dual degree student at the New School, studying fashion design at Parsons School of Design and philosophy at Eugene Lang College. I moved to New York three years ago after graduating high school in suburban Ohio with dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Parsons had been my dream school since I was 13, but I have struggled with accepting a creative future my entire life. On top of others reminding me that successful careers in the arts are rare, I also had to accept that I have many passions, which are often opposed. Today, fashion has come to mean fast fashion under extreme consumerism instead of art. It has been diluted to such an extreme that philosophy and social responsibility hardly intersect with it. There is no room to discuss global education inequality in a t-shirt from H and M. Because fashion is a universal tool of communication, it has the potential to change the world for the better, but it lacks the fundamental platform needed for a call to change. My goal is to use fashion as a cultural tool to discuss issues of race, gender, sexuality, sexual health, education inequality, migration, and more to ultimately have a positive impact on these issues in the world.