Fashion and sustainability: general – Page 2

Laundry Pile, 20 September 2017

Love it or hate it, laundry is part of everyday life. Join us to rifle through the Laundry Pile on 20th September in a London launderette (where else?!)…

Post date September 6, 2017

Conference in and with nature

Dartmoor, UK, 5-7 July 2017: a nature-immersed exploration of fashion sustainability with myself and Liz Parker. Log off your email, shut down your laptop, and join us for a…

Post date January 31, 2017

Recent interview for Current

Recently I was interviewed by Louise St.Pierre for Emily Carr University of Art + Design‘s design research journal Current. Louise and I have known each other for quite a…

Post date July 5, 2016

Craft of Use + Hay Festival

I’m going to be at the Hay Literary Festival at the end of May to talk about the Craft of Use book, please come and say hello… KATE…

Post date May 16, 2016

NOW AVAILABLE Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion

With huge delight I can announce that the much anticipated book the Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion is now published! It features many of the stories of using clothes…

Post date April 5, 2016

In the field with the Fashion Ecologies project

The Fashion Ecologies project is up and running, exploring themes of localism and fashion. The fieldwork in Macclesfield, in the north west of England is well under way and…

Post date April 5, 2016

Snippets from the new Routledge Handbook of Sustainability in Fashion

For a ‘140-character-or-less’ flavour of the Routledge Handbook of Sustainability in Fashion, here are some of my tweets about the new book (in chapter running order) to whet…

Post date November 23, 2014

What the experience of being listened to looks like…

14th October 2014, Colchane community centre, Chile. Audience of around fifty Aymara weavers drawn from the local area. We shared our garment stories and ideas, rooted in their…

Post date November 23, 2014

Andean Culture, Fashion and Sustainability

This October I spent a remarkable couple of weeks in Chile exploring its capital, Santiago, and the far North East of the country. High in the North I…

Post date November 4, 2014