Finding Hope in the Face of the Climate Crisis: A Knowledge Exchange Workshop
“The repairing and renewing of our fragmented corrupted world can not only happen ‘out there’…through sustainability solutions, but also...
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May 162 min read
Farming Fashion: Wool | Calling farmers and designers for online meet ups
Call out to farmers and designers for online meet ups for Future Fashion: Wool.
Feb 123 min read
Safe Spaces for Making Communities
Over the course of the Decolonising Fashion and Textiles project (DFT), we became acutely aware of the shortage of not only safe spaces...
Aug 4, 20234 min read
Manifesting intentions through fashion
For those able to vote in the UK, the time is now to speak to your MP about the world that you wish an elected government to champion....
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Stitching the future and the longing for home
“As a designer working in the humanitarian field, humility, listening and the reimagining of one’s own sense of what ‘progress’ should...
Oct 27, 20224 min read
Embedding sustainability at the core of fashion practice – developing the ReModelling Futures Method
The ReModelling Futures Method was developed as a key outcome for the ReModelling Fashion project, part of the Business of Fashion,...
Oct 23, 20222 min read
Supporting the transition to sustainable fashion practices – the ReModelling Futures Method
The ReModelling Futures Framework embeds future thinking from the start of the creative and decision making process.
Oct 4, 20223 min read
How can fashion value Society?
Fashion and society are interlinked and entangled, both reflecting and influencing one another — and in turn changing and evolving our...
Sep 21, 20225 min read
Reality, Reciprocity, Resilience
With the mass displacement of people on the rise, it is clear that we need to rethink and address the needs and aspirations of refugee...
Jul 6, 20223 min read
Everything is interconnected; dress accordingly
‘Nature’ continues to be an inspiration for designers and brands – just look at the A/W collections for 2022. Yet despite aspirations to...
May 25, 20223 min read
Leveraging the power of fashion activism to create positive social change
Through project ReGo, we’ve been working to leverage the power of fashion activism in shifting the prevailing narrative around young...
Apr 21, 20222 min read
The power of imagination and creativity in driving change
Human lives are intrinsically interwoven into our planet’s health, the biodiversity of the air, our land and oceans.
Apr 8, 20223 min read
Challenges facing UK’s fashion entrepreneurs as they work toward sustainable prosperity
Through research conducted as part of our Fostering Sustainable Practices (FSP) project we know UK fashion micro, small and medium...
Feb 28, 20222 min read
How will we use fashion activism to challenge social injustice?
Fashion and society are deeply intertwined through everyday actions, behaviours and business models, and can be empowering. However,...
Jan 24, 20224 min read
As fashion tutors, we have the opportunity and responsibility to be changemakers
OUNESCO’s World Education Day, a day in which educators and institutions are invited to reflect on education as we look around us and to...
Nov 26, 20214 min read
How can circularity change the way we design fashion products?
The global fashion industry of today predominantly operates on a linear production model. We take natural resources from the earth...
Nov 3, 20213 min read
Fashion Education in a time of climate emergency
Fashion education in 2021 must equip learners with the skills, knowledge and capabilities that can challenge exploitative practices in...
Oct 29, 20214 min read
The need for a collective reimagining of climate justice and commitment to action
The world is watching as the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, the 26th Conference of the Parties (known as COP26) starts in...
Oct 15, 20214 min read
Community Couture – clothes made to carry stories, between us, through places and time
Awarded a Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Student Design Award in the ‘For the long time’ category earlier this year, Community Couture is a...
Jun 1, 20214 min read
Another story of fashion as a contributor to cultural, social, environmental and economic prosperity
Fashion is fundamentally changing, and fashion designers are becoming less affiliated with the conventional fashion industry than ever...
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