Fashion Forward project blends community action, sustainability by repurposing donated clothing (opens in new tab)

Apurva Anand held up a striped shirtdress and knew exactly how to style it.“I’m going to pair it up with a belt and make it look a little more formal,” she said.Anand, an industrial design graduate student at Arizona State University, was looking for cute clothing to model. She’s a social media assistant for the International Students and Scholars Center and helped to create a video for the group.That shirtdress? Free. And the belt was free too.