Don’t forget! FEI will be participating in Ethical Fashion Show Paris, here is the info, straight off the FEI bulletin:

Ethical Fashion Show Paris: Education For Sustainable Fashion/  Atelier “Education pour une Mode Durable”

Fashioning an Ethical Industry will be hosting a seminar on Education for Sustainable Fashion at the Ethical Fashion Show in Paris from 1pm to 3:30pm on Sunday October 4th 2009. The event will take place at Tapis Rouge: 67, rue du fg St Martin 75010 Paris. The event is aimed at fashion tutors and students but everyone is welcome. The event will be in both French and English.

Fashioning an Ethical Industry propose un atelier intitulé Education pour une Mode Durable à l’Ethical Fashion Show de Paris le dimanche 4 octobre de 13h à 15h30. Cet atelier aura lieu au Tapis Rouge, 67 rue du Faubourg St Martin, 75010 Paris. Il s’adresse aux enseignants et aux étudiants de la mode ainsi qu’au  public. Les interventions seront accessibles en français et en anglais.

The programme
1.00pm: Shopping ethically – Nayla Ajaltouni, Collectif de L’Ethique sur L’Etiquette, France: www.ethique-sur-etiquette.org
1.30pm: Ethics in education – Liz Parker, joint project coordinator, Fashioning an Ethical Industry, UK: www.fashioninganethicalindustry.org
2.00pm: Ethical fashion from design to manufacture – Fair Labor Association / University of Delaware, USA: www.ethicalfashionproject.wordpress.com
2.30pm: Ethical fashion management – Natalie Ruelle, Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) , France. www.ifm-paris.com
3.00pm:Marketing ethics in an uncertain economy – Emmanual Walliser, Numanu – Label of Love, France: www.numanu.com
Tickets are available from: www.ethicalfashionshow.com

Designworks Image: Pick up wood

Alain Berteau Designworks has developed an interesting alternative to traditional metal/plastic/wood hangers in its commitment to pursue innovative design solutions within the context of ecology.

Sometimes design is about new behavior, not new product. Thinking beyond recycling, why waste energy shaping wood when nature is already doing such a good job? Sold by sets of 5, these hanger hooks require you take a walk in a natural environment to complete the object with some fallen branches.

The project was designed for the brussels based non-profit organisation Les Petits Riens, which provides social reinsertion via the collecting and selling of second-hand clothes and used furniture.

Source: Antler Magazine and Alain Berteau Designworks

Designer Natalie Purschwitz’s MakeShift Project is an art and research experiment that attempts investigates the relationship of clothing with the development of ideology and cultural production. Purschwitz is the designer behind Hunt & Gatherer, a clothing line that focuses on natural materials and contemporary design.

MakeShift Project Image: Day 9

The MakeShift Project challenges Purschwitz to only wear clothing items that she herself has made…for an entire year. This includes socks, shoes, underwear, coats, jackets, hats, bathing suits, accessories, etc.

MakeShift Project Image: Day 12

The project began on September 1^st, 2009, and, only15 days in, has already produced designs solutions that the challenge Purschwitz as both designer and user without sacrificing the integrity of the function and design of the clothing.

MakeShift Project Image: Showroom Opening

Be sure to follow this inspiring project. You can participate by leaving comments on the MakeShift Project blog or by visiting the MakeShift showroom located at 8 E. Cordova St., Vancouver, BC.

Source: The Conveyor Belt, MakeShift Project and Hunt & Gather

Title: Making Futures: the crafts in the context of emerging global sustainability agendas
Location: Plymouth, Devon, UK.
Link out: Click here
Description: MAKING FUTURES

The purpose of ‘Making Futures’ is to improve understanding of the ways in which the contemporary crafts are practiced in relation to significant and new emerging agendas relating to global environmental and sustainability issues.

The objectives include trying to understand whether these ‘agendas’ offer opportunities for the crafts to redefine and reconstitute themselves as less marginalised, more centrally productive forces in society, through new formulations and/or re-articulations of practices, identities, positions and markets, in ways that might engage more closely with contemporary social and cultural needs.

‘Making Futures: the crafts in the context of emerging global sustainability agendas’ aims to bring together an international cast of academics, practitioners, curators, campaigners, activists, and representatives from associated organisations and agencies, to develop and explore the conference theme. The conference seeks to incorprate a diverse range of practice-based case studies with approaches rooted in historical and cultural modelling encompassing social, technological, critical-theoretical, and economic and political perspectives. Throughout, the intention will be to advance understanding and debate of this important area where practice and aesthetics confront contemporary social and political imepratives.

The conference invites submissions from practitioners, curators, historians, theorists, campaigners, activists, and representatives of public and private agencies with an interest in the relationship between the contemporary crafts and sustainability issues.

KEY NOTE SPEAKERS

John Thackara is an acclaimed author on issues concerning art and design sustainability issues and founder and director of ‘Doors of Perception’, the internationally respected design futures & sustainability network.

To find out more about John Thackara’s work please  click here

Carl Honore is the author of ‘In Praise of Slow’, the book that helped define the global slow movement. ‘Under Pressure’, Carl’s second book explores the good, the bad and the ugly of modern childrearing. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages and landed on bestseller lists in many countries.

To find out more about Carl Honore’s work please click here

Start Date: 2009-09-17
End Date: 2009-09-18

Source: Making Futures and Puff and Flock