Here is a test idea for future fashion projects. I added the photo afterwards.
Sustainable Fashion Handbook Illuminates the Future!
Today we were very excited to see our chapter in the new book about to be launched (October 1st 2012) by Thames&Hudson called The Sustainable Fashion Handbook by Sandy Black, Professor of Fashion & Textile Design & Technology at London College of Fashion!
And we are overwhelmed by the immensity of the tome that just arrived on our desk! It is 350 pages of extraordinary insights into the entire context and need for sustainability and fashion as a global industry to be wholly integrated. The design, layout and form are superlative and the writers are all the ones you want to read!
The Slow Textiles Group chapter is located at the start of the book in the section that addresses ‘Self and Beauty/Culture and Consumption’. Ours, called The Hidden Persuaders and Their Dark Screens of Meaning, sits alongside Otto von Busch’s The Game of Fashion and Pamela Church Gibson’s, Sustainable Fashion in the Age of Celebrity Culture. These three chapters set the contextual scene for the book:
This is a generation’s must-have!
Postscript:
Today we also started reading Safia Minnney’s inspirational book Naked Fashion. She opens it with these words,
“For many people at that rat race ‘what’s the point of it all’ moment in their career, travel or time alone in nature has triggered a crucial switch away from our habitually amused-to-death lives. Get some fresh air. See parts of the world that function very well without our level of consumerism. See how conventional economics and consumerism are stripping land and natural resources away from farmers and fisherfolk and concentrating it all into the hands of a few business owners, investors and their army – the advertisers, creatives and marketeers who make consumption so seductive, even at the cost of our planet and our sanity..”
These are some of the shared origins of our work too, both practical and theoretical. We are here to support British design creatives when they meet that ‘what’s the point of it all’ moment in their careers.
“The Cotton Film: Dirty White Gold” launches Sponsume crowd fund
“When you bag a bargain, who pays for it?” This is the question that erudite British documentary journalist Leah Borromeo is making a film about fashion and its victims. She is on a mission – she wants to make ethics and sustainability in the fashion industry the norm, not the exception, by making the supply chain transparent. She is on a journey to find out how to make this reality.
Read more about her extraordinary project here.
Timeless Textiles with a Twist!
Great British designer Alice Temperley is evolving into a sophisticated womenswear designer! The innate textile designer in her renders her garments timeless and desirable. She uses lace, devoree, print, embroidery and broderie anglaise in her latest collection seen here to such a harmonious, serene and sophisticated level. We love it!
London Fashion Week Showcases Slow Textiles!
Jonathan Saunders for the Green Carpet Challenge yesterday at Somerset House.
We’re excited to report that London Fashion Week opened this week with a star-studded slow textiles showcase at Somerset House! Eight London-based designers team together with Livia Firth and CLASS this week to create a timeless fashion moment that celebrates British fashion, film and sustainable fabrics.
Livia Firth’s Hollywood connections have inspired a celebration of British Film with the best of ‘best practice’ British Fashion! All the textiles used in the eight showcase silhouettes – inspired by British movie classics – were sourced by Guisy Bettoni CEO at the superlative sustainable textiles materials library, CLASS Eco Library.
The eight London-based designers ensembles.
Here is the Green Carpet Challenge Team that made it all possible yesterday at Somerset House, London, including Livia Firth, Lucy Siegle, Jocelyn Whipple and Orsola de Castro!
For further details on each designers work and the British movies that inspired them, go here.
slowtextiles.org 