2017 Student competition ESRAP. Future Fashion Designer Scholarship. The Ecochic Design Award for Fashion Students. Cutting waste out of fashion The EcoChic Design Award is our sustainable fashion design competition inspiring emerging fashion designers and students to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste.
Each competition cycle takes designers on an education and design journey lasting several theory and design-packed months. Firstly, we educate designers about the fashion industry’s negative environmental impacts and the sustainable fashion design techniques, zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction that can combat this. Secondly, we provide designers with the tools, via lectures, videos, articles and recommended links, in order to develop their understanding of sustainable fashion design. We also challenge them to source textile waste, in its many forms, to enable them to transition towards sustainable design and sourcing.
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion. Organizing for Student and Worker Power. Fashion Positive. Ethics in Fashion (Communication, Consumerism and Sustainability) MSc/Diploma. Overview Introduction Over recent decades the fashion and textile industries has been making changes; responding to enviromental and social needs; publishing corporate social reports and working with industry bodies and NGOs.
Yet the Rana Plaza disaster in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2013 was tragedy for the workers, their families, the country and the industries, and an imperative for new thinking, new practice, and fresh ethics. Social Alterations - An Education Lab for Socially Responsible Fashion. Stella McCartney In Conversation. #BoFVoices: How can we safeguard the people who make our clothing? Paradigm shift in fashion. The Sustainable Fashion Handbook. The definitive sourcebook on all aspects of sustainable fashion – not only the environmental issues presented by fast-moving fashion, but also the social impact of the industry.
Packed with authoritative facts and inspiring images and ideas, this is an indispensable reference for professionals, students and anyone with an interest in fashion, sustainability and innovation ‘A huge range of examples and perspectives on sustainable fashion … it isn’t just pretty pictures, with plenty of essays debating the materials and morality of contemporary fashion’ – Crafts ‘From Katherine Hamnett printed T-shirt, to Vivienne Westwood’s stance against global warming, the author questions the sustainability of fashion and its key players’– AnOther Magazine ‘Packed with facts and inspiring images and ideas, this is a useful reference for professionals, students and anyone with an interest in fashion, sustainability and innovation’ – Textiles ‘Required reading … ultra-comprehensive’ – Shop Ethica. The Sustainable Fashion Academy. Fair Wear Foundation. "It's the end of fashion as we know it" says Li Edelkoort. Design Indaba 2015: fashion is dead, trend forecaster Li Edelkoort has declared, describing the fashion industry as "a ridiculous and pathetic parody of what it has been" (+ interview).
Lidewij Edelkoort, one of the world's most influential fashion forecasters, used her annual presentation at Design Indaba in Cape Town to fire a broadside at the industry. She told Dezeen: "This is the end of fashion as we know it. " Edelkoort said her interest in fashion had now been replaced by an interest in clothes, since fashion has lost touch with what is going on in the world and what people want.
"Fashion is insular and is placing itself outside society, which is a very dangerous step," she said in an interview with Dezeen after her presentation. Edelkoort listed a number of reasons for the crisis in fashion, starting with education, where young designers are taught to emulate the famous names. Design students to create new ethical Welsh brand for highstreet. June 24, 2014 Three Fashion Students students from the University of South Wales have been selected to create a new ethical Welsh brand for the high street, which will be launched at London Fashion Week.
Melissa Hancocks, Sarah Price and Shannon Mason were chosen from 40 entrants as winners in the Project X competition, a challenge set by Welsh businessman Shelim Hussain MBE, owner of global company Euro Foods (UK). Eco Fashion Design: Students and ethical design. During Graduate Fashion Week we talked to eight budding eco fashion design students from London, New Zealand and India, to find out how easy “being ethical” actually is and why so many of our future designers seem so disinterested in saving our planet.
By Ethical Fashion Designer Amy Critchlow There are brave young students who aren’t afraid of tackling ethical issues head on: sticking to their eco principles even if it means adding extra time and effort to their workload. But what is it about “ethical fashion” that has other students running for the hills and what needs to be done to change things? 5 things fashion students need to know about sustainability. Our recent live chat provided some wisdom for fashion students, faculty members and consumers alike looking to embed sustainability into education and design practises.
Here are the top five things we learned. 1. Learning how to tell the sustainability story behind an item or collection is key If a consumer can engage and empathise with the path that an item took - from conceptual design to pattern making to crafting - the more they'll be intrigued. Top 10 Sustainable Fashion programmes and courses. SOURCE Deputy Editor, Sarah Ditty, brings you a round-up of the top 10 sustainable fashion programmes and courses from leading schools across the globe.
Image: ESMOD Berlin For this month’s issue, the SOURCE team investigated how sustainability is being integrated into the curricula of leading fashion schools and universities across the world. Community Clothing. Make Clothes; Create Jobs; Restore Pride by Community Clothing. About this project Risks and challenges When it comes to fulfilment of order we believe the risks are low.
As a team we are experienced in the design, manufacture and delivery of clothing we’ve been doing it for over ten years now. Our products have been designed, prototyped and tested, and all of our fabrics are well known to us.