EVENTS
Conscious Style
T-shirt designed by Zandra Rhodes for EJF (click image for larger version)
Ethical Fashion Day at the V&A
Sunday 9 November 2008
10.30-17.00
Sackler Centre
Bring your chic but unloved fashion items to swap with ones you will love at our Swishing event. Stylists will help you discover your best look and cut and sew reinvention workshops can help you put life back into your clothes. Chaired by fashion writer and broadcaster Caryn Franklin, experts including Katharine E Hamnett and Lucy Siegle debate the future for sustainable fashion. Watch our glamorous eco fashion show presented by Orsola de Castro. Join the style surgery seminars to find out whats eco hot on the high street or how to restyle your wardrobe. A day dedicated to your fashion choices and the principles and practicalities of ethical fashion. New V&A Trustee Erin O'Connor will attend the event to support the new Sackler Centre for arts education.
Thank you to Eleri Lynn, Matilda Lee, Mo Tomaney, Tamsin Lejeune, RosieBudhani, Larissa Clark, Lucy Shea and Jocelyn Whipple
Swishing with Futerra. Photo Georgie Weedon. (click image for larger version)
Swishing - the clothes swap
Swishing is an eco-fabulous way to get a new wardrobe by exchanging your quality fashion items for someone else's. See Rules for the Swish .
10.30-12.00 - Drop Off
Lunchroom 1, Sackler Centre
Hand over your chic clothing and get a ticket to take part.
12.00-12.30 - Look but don't touch!
Seminar Room 1, Sackler Centre
A chance to check out the pieces of clothing up for the swish. No moving them though!
12.30-14.00 - Swishing opens
Lunchroom 1 and 2
Now you can get your hands on them!
In collaboration with Futerra and Central Saint Martins.
Free. To take part you must bring clothes to swap and get a ticket
Ethical Fashion on the Net
10.30-16.30
Digital Studio, Sackler Centre
Access up-to-date info from fashion ranges to fashion issues
Free, drop-in
Build a Sustainable Fabric Dress
10.30-16.30
Design Studio, Sackler Centre
Draw designs and messages on swatches of hemp and attach them to a life- size dress frame to create a dress. Watch the dress grow over the day.
In collaboration with Environmental Justice Foundation and Loop Fabric
Free, drop-in
In collaboration with Central Saint Martins (click image for larger version)
Reinvention: Cut and Sew Workshop
10.30-12.30 & 13.30-16.30
Art Studio, Sackler Centre
Bring your tired, out-of-style clothes and regenerate them with the help of experienced dressmakers and a pair of scissors.
In collaboration with Central Saint Martins
Free, drop-in
Style Surgeries
Seminar Room 1, Sackler Centre
11.00-11.30
How We Shop: Slow Fashion Fast Fashion
With Mo Tomaney Consultant and Research Fellow in Ethics and the Clothing Industry for Central St Martins.
Free, ticketed. Tickets available from 10.30 from the Sackler Centre ticket desk.
T-shirt designed by Zandra Rhodes for EJF (click image for larger version)
13.00-13.30
Restyle Your Wardrobe
In collaboration with Ethical Fashion Forum
Free, ticketed. Tickets available from 12.00 from the Sackler Centre ticket desk.
15.15-15.45
Hot Eco Fashion Labels on the High Street
With Rosie Budhani Ethical Fashion Consultant.
In collaboration with Rosie Budhani Ethical Fashion Consultant
Free, ticketed. Tickets available from 12.00 from the Sackler Centre ticket desk.
Style Booths
12.30-14.00
Lunchroom 1, Sackler Centre
Personal advice on how to wear your Swish
In collaboration with Ethical Fashion Forum, Central Saint Martins and UCA Epsom
Free, open to Swishing ticket holders only.
The Ethical High Street Debate
14.00-15.00
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
Designer Katharine E Hamnett, broadcaster and journalist Professor Lucy Siegle, Research Fellow at Central St Martins Mo Tomaney , and founder of People Tree Safia Minney discuss the challenges for the shopper and the shop on the ethical high street with chair, fashion writer and broadcaster, Caryn Franklin.
Free, ticketed. Tickets available from 13.00 from the Sackler Centre ticket desk.
From Somewhere SS09 (click image for larger version)
Fashion Show
16.00-16.40
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
Presented by Orsola de Castro Fashion Designer and Curator of Estethica at London Fashion Week.
Showing designs from Stella McCartney, Junky Styling, Noir and t-shirts made for the EJF by designers including Allegra Hicks and Giles Deacon.
In collaboration with Equa, Quintessentially Models, Jocelyn Whipple, Sustainable Fashion and Textiles Consultant and Matilda Lee, co-organiser of Estethica at London Fashion Week and author of Eco Chic: the savvy shopper's guide to ethical fashion.
Free, ticketed. Tickets available from 13.00 from the Sackler Centre ticket desk.