From fashion student to sustainability warrior, Remake’s Yimin Deng

Yimin Deng graduated from Parsons with a BFA in Fashion and a personal mandate to improve fashion industry practices around the world. While a student he made a life-changing visit to Sri Lanka with non-profit organization Remake, an event which steered his course since. When he observed forty people working on one T-shirt which would retail at under eleven dollars he not only wondered about the math but understood that the top-down structure of the fast fashion system in which Western brands set the rules and desperate workers scramble to obey or risk their lives as modern colonialism. Since Deng assumed the position of Remake’s Brand Ambassador he has been sharing his experiences, aiming to build empathy across the supply chain and spread the message that human rights are being sacrificed to feed our fast fashion addictions. FashionUnited caught up with the motivated young hopeful via email.