26th February 2010
Fashion Victims: Making Style Sustainable
Programme, reports and presentations
View a short film made at the conference in the resource section of the website.
Fashion Victims, held at the University of West of England, drew together 100 14-18 year old fashion and textile school and college students and their teachers, mainly from the South West of England, to find out more about organic textiles, fair trade and garment workers' rights and meet the people making our clothes. Teachers also gained ideas for teaching about these issues in the future.
Organised by Fashioning an Ethical Industry, Bishopston Trading Company, Soil Association and Bristol Fairtrade Network
9:30 to 10:00 Registration.
10:00 to 10:15 Welcome
Adrian Grandon, University of West of England
Lee Holdstock, Soil Association
10:15 to 10:45 Tara Starlet, Blood, Sweat and T-shirts in conversation with Liz Parker, Fashioning an Ethical Industry. Watch a short film of Tara's experience in India for the BBC3 series.
10:45 to 11:15 Anannya Bhattacharjee, garment worker representative: Anannaya talked about the life of garment workers in India (watch a film here) and about Asia Floor Wage, a campaign led by workers' organisations for workers to be paid a living wage (watch a film and read more about it on the AFW website and on the Labour Behind the Label website).
Davo Vodouhe, Beninese Organisation for the Promotion of Organic Agriculture. See Davo's presentation here
11:15 to 11:40 Break
11:40 to 12:40 Workshop One
1a. Designing for sustainability. Rose Sinclair, Department of Design, Goldsmiths University of London.
Read a report of the workshop here.
1b. From seed to shelf - an organic textile journey. Eliza Anyangwe & Stephanie Williamson, Pesticide Action Network, Davo Vodouhe, Beninese Organisation for the Promotion of Organic Agriculture and Lee Holdstock, Soil Association.
1c. Fashioning the future for garment workers. Anannya Bhattacharjee, Asia Floor Wage, garment worker representative and Anna McMullen, Labour Behind the Label.
A report of this workshop can be read here.
12:40 to 1:30 Lunch
Information stands in main hall.
Clothing customisation demonstration.
1:30 to 2:30 Workshop Two
2a. Wear Fair! Cotton, Fairtrade and your school or college. Jim Cranshaw, People and Planet and Vanessa Brain, Fairtrade Foundation.
2b. Waste and taking action on climate chaos. Lyla Patel, TRAID.
A report of Lyla's workshop can be read here.
2c. New designs on fashion. Tamsin LeJeune, Ethical Fashion Forum.
2:30 to 2:45 Break
2:45 to 3:30 Action update: Report back from workshops
Read the action ideas generated during the day.
Final word from Tara Starlet End of Conference
3:30 to 4:30 Clothing Customisation Session
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