Discussing fashion for social change with Jess Amaral
“It’s important to enable the next generation of design change-makers. We are convening co-creation spaces and it's great to give...
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- Apr 21
- 3 min
Tending the Earth, gardening fashion
What would fashion look like if it developed alongside natural seasons rather than the market driven fashion calendar? Natural seasons...
- Feb 1
- 2 min
How might we reimagine fashion as a powerful medium to explore and amplify cultures?
Fashion can be a powerful medium for the exploration, representation and amplification of voices and cultures from around the world....
- Oct 28, 2022
- 4 min
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 24, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 6 min
Shifting Charges – provoking mindset change through jewellery
The fashion industry causes negative impacts on society in many ways. For example the abuse of labour rights, compromising of the health of
- Jul 6, 2022
- 3 min
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...
- Jun 16, 2022
- 4 min
Healing Knowledge
After six years of working together with UNHCR and the refugees of Zaatari Refugee Camp, on the Jordan/ Syria border, we have just begun...
- May 25, 2022
- 3 min
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 22, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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...
- Oct 7, 2021
- 2 min
What kind of fashion education is needed now?
Education is the leverage point for change in societies, cultures and economies, and in a time of climate emergency, individual and...
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