Fashion is a form of personal expression, a form of storytelling, and a form of art — one that each of us can relate to. But fashion can also be a form of activism. Designers worldwide carefully choose factories and suppliers to ensure they are ethical, both environmentally and socially, but each color, pattern, textile, or material can also be a symbol of human rights. Fashion can serve as a designer’s way of creatively and peacefully dissenting, particularly in the context of living and working in authoritarian regimes.