CSF at launch of No Equal Clothing
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion is pleased to support this installation where LCF graduates from the Fashioning the Future Show will showcase their work.
More information at www.noequalclothing.com
Photo by Nik Daughtry
London College of Fashion’s highly inspirational professor Helen Storey has written a feature for December 2008′s British Vogue. Her fantastical relationship with fashion and science culminated in the out of this world Wonderland project, conceived with polymer chemist Tony Ryan from the University of Sheffield. This was beautifully communicated through Nick Knight’s video featuring model Alice Dellal, now available to watch on Showstudio. Helen continues to inspire and innovate through her work, and the MA Fashion & the Environment students at LCF will be lucky enough to work with her in 2009.
For more information visit the Helen Storey Foundation.
The Earth Awards is a global search for future-crucial design solutions that will improve our collective social, cultural, economic and ecological quality of life. Director of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion Dilys Williams will be judging submissions for this global competition, along with esteemed colleagues David Buckland of Cape Farewell, Tony Chambers of Wallpaper, all round eco-hero David de Rothschild, and Loomstate‘s Scott Hahn.
Submissions will be accepted in multiple categories; product design, architecture, fashion, food, alternative energy, and more.
CRITERIA
Submissions must be achievable, scalable, practical, collaborative, inclusive, original and energy-reducing.
SELECTION COMMITTEE
Submissions will be reviewed by the greatest thinkers of the 21st century: designers, architects, philosophers, scientists, economists, actors, activists, environmentalist, and entrepreneurs.
AWARD
All finalists will be flown to New York City for an Awards Ceremony Gala in mid-January, 2009, where the first prize winner will be announced. The winner will receive a monetary prize, and all finalists will receive the opportunity to pitch their ideas to industry leaders including venture capitalists, industrialists, and Fortune 500 business leaders.
DEADLINE
Submissions must be received no later than December 1, 2008.
Sim Scavazza, Creative Director Adili.com presenting at Fashioning the Future Show
Friend of the CSF Sim Scavazza has been profiled in that super pink dress in the Guardian’s Close Up. Sim was spied wearing the Adili creation at the Fashioning the Future Show just a couple of weeks ago.
“A short film putting the spotlight on pants showing even most the beautiful clothes can some from the ugliest origins.”
Eco Boudoir and Pants to Poverty are collaborating on a new ethical fashion film as part of the Southbank Centre’s celebration of the United Declaration of Human Rights 6th Anniversary in Dember 2008.
Launching on 10th December, you can register for an invite … and watch this space for more updates!!
This radio show was broadcast on Radio 4 on Wednesday 12 November 2008.
Prof Jagdish Bhagwati is an Indian born American economist and an expert on trade and development. He believes that the presence of multi-nationals in developing countries is a great thing for the local people and we in the West should actively seek to buy products produced by ‘sweatshops’ rather than avoid them. He believes it’s better for a community to have the option to do badly paid, unpleasant work than to have no work at all. This is how development comes. Britain is a developed nation because children and adults worked long hours in poor conditions during the Industrial Revolution.
Panel:
Ceri Dingle is the Director of WORLDwrite, an education charity committed to global equality.
Safia Minney is Founder of the Fair Trade Fashion Company, People Tree.
Simon McRae is Senior Campaigns Officer for War on Want.
17-23 November
Want to be a contender in the creative industries?
Then don’t miss Arts London’s Enterprise Week 2008 – a packed week of practical and inspirational talks and workshops to help you gain the skills and knowledge you need to make a success of your creative talent.
Style & sustainability: creating a future-proofed fashion label
2pm – 4pm Thurs 20 November, Rootstein Hopkins Space, London College of Fashion
Developed with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, this event will feature chat from Anti-Apathy and Worn Again’s Cyndi Rhoades, the fabulous gals at Fashioning an Ethical Industry and hot new design talent Rani Jones.
There are activities right across the University of the Arts London, where you can meet with the people that have been there and done it, industry speakers and network with like-minded students and alumni! Just some of the events taking place are:
- Collective Art: planning a group exhibition
- Create your basic website in minutes
- Making money from your creativity
- Practical networking skills
- Talking shop: selling your creative work
- and many more!
Plus your opportunity to get involved in the Make Your Mark Challenge – a chance for you to show off your communication and planning expertise!
For more details and free booking, visit www.ecca-london.org/entweek/08
If you weren’t there and would like to know what went on at last week’s Ethical Trading Initiative conference, read Impactt’s blog for an insider’s view.
This report has been produced by Impactt and Traidcraft. It is aimed at the sourcing and commercial directors of retailers and brands and sets out a new approach to sourcing, which the report claims, both protects and enhances commercial goals and improves labour practices in the supply base. The report provides a set of operational principles setting out the ground rules for efficient and ethical purchasing and scorecards for buyers and suppliers to incentivise efficiency and better ethical behaviour. The report is based on interviews with retailers, sourcing offices, agents, manufacturers and workers. The research was conducted in the UK, Hong Kong, China, Bangladesh and Cambodia.
Read the report by downloading the pdf at the Impactt website.
