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A vision for radical change.

4 April 2023

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Fashion and Textiles School of Architecture, Art and Design Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries

In support of Fashion Revolution Week 2023 Fashion students and staff have organised a week-long exhibition and programme of events, including:

  • a sustainable fashion exhibition
  • a clothes swap
  • fashion workshops
  • an online panel discussion on creating a radical fashion system
  • a pop-up exhibition of experimental textiles
     

A Vision for Radical Change exhibition

Saturday 22 April to Saturday 29 April in the Eldon Foyer.

This exhibition is a snapshot of the work-in-progress by final year students from our BA (hons) Fashion & Textile Design course. Each project evidences a vision for radical change through a specific approach to fashion and textiles design for sustainability. These approaches include: natural dyes, upcycling old garments, deadstock fabrics to create new products, upcycling factory/cutting room floor waste, regenerative fashion, modular design, organic fabrics and cultural sustainability.

Other events are planned throughout the week including:
 

  • Fashion Activism Workshop
    Monday 24 April, 4.15pm to 5.00pm in the Eldon Foyer
    What can we learn about fashion through the lens of the humble t-shirt? This short workshop introduces you to the role of fashion in activism, each participant will create their own design informed by the Fashion Revolution theme for 2023. Led by Noorin Khamisani, Senior Lecturer in Fashion & Textiles.
     
  • Clothing swap
    Wednesday 26 April, 12.00pm to 1.30pm in the Eldon Foyer (drop off between 9.00am and 10.00am)
    The popular clothes swap returns! Bring in your quality unloved or outgrown items of clothing and swap them for something else to love. For each item you bring you can swap for another for FREE. Nothing to swap? You can buy an item for just £1.     All proceeds will go to Fashion Revolution.
     
  • Refashioning plastic workshop
    Wednesday 26 April, 12.30pm to 1.30pm in the Eldon Foyer

    Refashioning Plastics. Come along to this workshop to create a fashion accessory from plastic waste. Led by Amy Barnes, final year student  (BA (hons) Fashion & Textile Design). Come along and join Amy’s fun workshop where you will be learning how to make a fashion accessory from a plastic material that was once seen as waste. Like Amy, you will turn plastic ‘rubbish’ into something exciting and unique, together we can help save the planet one plastic bag at a time!

  • Online Panel Discussion: A Vision for Radical Change
    Thursday 27 April, 5.30pm to 6.30pm
    Join us this Fashion Revolution Week for an online panel discussion exploring: A Vision for Radical Change.

    Register
     
  • Exploratory Fashion Practice Mini-exhibitions
    Friday 28 April, 10.00am to 12.00pm, in the Eldon Foyer
    This is a work-in-progress exhibition displaying process driven results from the second year module ‘Exploratory Practice’. This module was created by Dr Lara Torres to engage students in a process of multidisciplinary exploratory practices, requiring them to identify areas of interest in regards to materials and/or processes. These will be tested in order to develop emergent or innovative ways of working. The samples presented at this show are the results from a bioplastics workshop, our students are invited to display tests and guide you through their in-progress sketchbooks.

 

What is Fashion Revolution Week?

Fashion Revolution Week is an annual campaign bringing together the world’s largest fashion activism movement for seven days of action. Running this year between 22 April and 29 April 2023, the aim is to collectively reimagine a just and equitable fashion system for both people and the planet.

Fashion Revolution Week 2023 marks ten years since the Rana Plaza tragedy. Using the 10 points of the Fashion Revolution manifesto as building blocks, a Global Network of Fashion Revolutionaries in 75 countries are bringing people together to build a vision for radical change.

Over the past ten years, the noise around sustainable fashion has only got louder. But meanwhile, real progress is too slow in the context of the climate crisis and rising social injustice. That’s why we’re making Fashion Revolution Week 2023 an action-packed and future-focused campaign that amplifies solutions from historically overlooked places.

For a decade, Fashion Revolution has campaigned to end human and environmental exploitation in the global fashion industry by spreading awareness and asking the question “Who Made My Clothes?”

The University of Portsmouth is delighted to be supporting Fashion Revolution Week again this year, with a series of events organised by staff and students from our Fashion & Textiles courses and research group.