Fashion – Kate Fletcher

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

This October = Chile + Fashion + Sustainability

From 11th – 24th October I will be in Chile taking part in a number of events and activities celebrating sustainability and fashion as a fusion of the…

Post date September 30, 2014

Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion

Announcing the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion, a veritable smorgasbord of 28 scholarly contributions to debates and practice of fashion and sustainability from around…

Post date September 8, 2014

Now Online! Craft of Use Event Publication

The Craft of Use event that took place at London College of Fashion in March has been summarised in image, word and video and is available online. It…

Post date June 26, 2014

Craft of Use Event: ‘creativity and concern’

The day-long Craft of Use event at London College of Fashion marking the culmination of the latest phase of research on the Local Wisdom project, passed by in…

Post date April 3, 2014

Craft of Use Event… easing in

We are almost set and already raring to go for the Local Wisdom project’s ‘Craft of Use‘ Event at London College of Fashion on 26th March. Stellar line-up…

Post date March 9, 2014