This piece is 3 of 6 created from the writing piece Generative Fashion: Companion Planting Fashion's Digital Futures published in The Fashion Studies Journal in August 2022.

"The last few years have brought new growth to digital fashion realities, forming new systems of opportunities. Divergent fashion systems can leave behind the challenges of physical fashion systems derived from fossil fuels, greenwashing, overproduction, and overconsumption. There is a new creative fashion landscape far more valuable than capitalistic tendencies played out in whitepapers. This text is dedicated to sowing seeds for a fresher fashion landscape, generative and regenerative fashion design, and new fashion realities linked intrinsically to our Earth.

Generative fashion [1] realities are sprouting all around, connected via modems through the earth’s soils, through complex energy systems, seemingly as intangible as microfibers in the waters. Beyond early cyborg fantasies, nature's evolutionary algorithms [2] prepare us for crafting healthy ecosystems for these new fashion-able realities (as able fashion takes action). A phygital symbiosis is necessary, for the physical to inform the digital, and vice versa, to help repair the soils, to companion plant fashion-able identities. The act of companion planting [3] is one of actively nurturing another in creating partnerships for earthly survival. The pin-pricked tailors' hands worn from crafting can inform the mechanisms in fashion’s newer machines, together to repair the soils in the earth."