Title: Fashion Victims: Making Style Sustainable – A conference for schools and colleges
Location: Bristol
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Date: 2010-02-26
Fashion Victims: Making Style Sustainable, February 26th, 2010.
Here is the Programme (subject to alteration), via Fashioning an Ethical Industry:
| 10 – 10:15 | Welcome from University of West of England and Lee Holdstock, Soil Association |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Tara Starlet, Blood, Sweat and T-shirts |
| 10:45 to 11:15 | Fairtrade farmer, garment worker and organic farmer panel (to be confirmed) |
| 11:15 to 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 to 12:30 | Workshops 1 |
| 1a. Designing for sustainability, Ian Capewell, Practical Action | |
| 1b. From seed to shelf – an organic textile journey, Damien Sanfilippo, Pesticide Action Network and Lee Holdstock, Soil Association | |
| 1c. Fashioning the future for garment workers, Garment worker (tbc) and Liz Parker from Fashioning an Ethical Industry | |
| 12:30 to 1:15 | Lunch (exhibition and re-fashioning clothes demonstration) |
| 1:15 to 2:15 | Workshops 2 |
| 2a. Fair trade and fabulous, Jenny Foster, Bristol Fair Trade Network, George Williams, Bishopston Trading Company and Fairtrade cotton farmer (tbc) | |
| 2b. Waste and taking action on climate chaos, Lyla Patel, TRAID | |
| 2c. New designs on fashion, Tamsin LeJeune, Ethical Fashion Forum | |
| 2:15 to 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 to 3:30 | Action update: Report back on workshops |
| Conference end | |
| 3:30 to 4:30 | Exhibition and re-fashioning clothe(to be confirmed) |
Source: FEI
Mary has a PhD in Sociology from University of Edinburgh, researching responsible fashion and transnational labour rights activism in the wake of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh.
