Posts tagged with Fashioning the Future Awards

December 25, 2011  On Ying Lai. BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear

Sustainability and the Curriculum

Top designers do not emerge fully formed from nowhere. They have learnt their craft with rigour and fashion is as integral to their life as getting up in the morning. For fashion educationalists the idea of learning “in” and “through” the subject is at the heart of our craft. A key aspect that drives the [...]

December 1, 2011  Lara Torres. MA Fashion Artefact

Drying Out Fashion

It takes 2700 litres of water to produce one cotton t-shirt from ‘crop to shop’. Just imagine how many full swimming pools it took to manufacture the contents of your wardrobe. In the meantime, 5000 children die each day due to lack of clean water. All of us need to remember that stark equation: designers, [...]