WE TRANSFORM CLOTHING BY MAKING IT BLACK. WE ARE THE FUTURE OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY. WE ARE DEVELOPING blackOUT COLOR TECHNOLOGY: ADVANCED RE-MANUFACTURING TO TRANSFORM CLOTHING INTO NEW. A CIRCULAR SOLUTION TO POWER THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY.
WE ARE DEVELOPING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH, AND SUPPORTED BY, THE WORLD'S MOST THOUGHT-LEADING BRANDS, RETAILERS AND INSTITUTIONS.
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AWARDS * SELECT PUBLIC SPEAKING
Macy's Annual Sustainability Summit: The Circular Economy in Fashion
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British Fashion Council's Fashion Tech & Sustainability Global Expert Mission 2020
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Department of Sanitation New York City: Circular Design Week
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Start-Up-Palooza Second Place Up
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Talk Trash City Runner Up
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1010 Business Awards Runner Up
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2020 Make It In Brooklyn Female Founder Award
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Levi's Strauss Collaboratory for Climate Change Fellow
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National Science Foundation Innovation-Corps; Cornell Tech University
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Her Future Female Founders Fellow
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MIT Media Fellow & Woolmark Company; Technology for Good in Fashion
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Pratt Institutes BF+DA Fellow
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Make It Black was founded by Amanda Grogan when after working as a designer in the fashion industry for a decade waste.
She saw the traditional industry standard dye methods and believed there had to be a tech- enabled better way that would improve both environmental impacts and efficiency.
AMANDA GROGAN
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Make It Black was founded by Amanda Grogan when after working in the fashion industry for a decade as a designer waste.
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Education
We see a world where virgin black need not exist. Black should always be a second chance.
Dublin, Ireland