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Just out… Fashion & Sustainability: Design for Change

Hot of the press and available in English, Spanish and Portuguese Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change. By Kate Fletcher and Lynda Grose. Published March 2012 by Laurence King…

Post date April 25, 2012

Fashion and Sustainability FAQs

Fashion and sustainability raises so many questions… here are a few of my responses to them, gathered over the last year covering everything from slow fashion to mainstream…

Post date April 19, 2012

Local Wisdom Dublin

Join us in Dublin, Ireland on Saturday 28th April for the next community photoshoots run as part of the Local Wisdom project. Come along to 6 Castle Market Street, Dublin 2 between…

Post date April 18, 2012

Sharing, specialisation, sustainability

Over the past four years I have been gathering images and stories of – among many other things – garments that are shared. This has been part of…

Post date March 29, 2012

Local Wisdom Oslo

Join us in Oslo, Norway this Sunday for the next community photoshoots run as part of the Local Wisdom project. Come along to DogA between 12 midday and 4pm and share…

Post date March 22, 2012

Product Life Extension Conference

For two decades fashion and textiles has been ‘borrowing’ design for sustainability ideas developed in product design and transposing them onto garment and clothing systems. Now ideas are…

Post date March 22, 2012

The Language of Fashion and Sustainability

The theory of linguistic relativity suggests that language shapes thought: that words influence how we perceive and imagine the world. It goes some way to explain how, for…

Post date March 11, 2012

Bamboo ShamBoo!

Half a decade ago, the president of a company called ‘Bamboo Textiles’ wrote a short essay extolling the virtues of his company’s product (Delano, 2007). It was a…

Post date March 2, 2012

CSR: Commodity Sustainability (Right?)

For a while now I have been wondering about just how many people in the fashion sector see sustainability as a product type, a line of garments in…

Post date February 24, 2012