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Girls Who Code at Fashion Week
Adriana Chavez (center), a Girls Who Code alumna, made her New York Fashion Week debut as a model for PH5's 2018 fall collection.
Credit: Stefania Curto / The New York Times
Standing around Samsung's tech-filled event space in Manhattan in striped knit dresses and jumpsuits, miniskirts with wavy designs and leggings that went over their heels, PH5's models looked like disco-mod glam bots sent from the future.
It was impossible to tell just by looking, but among the models at the presentation were several nonprofessionals, including two alumnae of the Girls Who Code program, which aims to close the gender gap in technology through education.
Mijia Zhang, the creative director of PH5, and Wei Lin, the company's founder, have been working with Girls Who Code to design a sweater with a special code on it.
Most of the clothing that PH5 produces is made with a computer: Zhang works with programmers to code various stitches based on her vision, and a machine creates the pieces from there. "With knitwear you have to constantly program," she says. "I think that's something people aren't aware of. You can be into computers and work in the fashion industry."
From The New York Times
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