A talk and workshop inspired COVERSLUT©
Inspired by Grace Ndiritu’s ethical/environmental fashion brand COVERSLUT© in partnership with Cooper Gallery, this workshop will explore how existing garments can be literally, and metaphorically, ‘re-used’ to create new ways of designing and thinking about fashion together.
COVERSLUT© is a long-term co-design fashion project centering issues of democracy and class struggle that involves working with refugees and migrants.
There will be an introduction to the brand’s anti-sweatshop stance, including decolonial and equitable practices of fair wages, new economic models, critical and environmental practices, such as low-impact textile processes, and post-consumer re-use.
Participant info You are invited to bring along a favourite (or least favourite!) garment to share and explore in the workshop. We will have papers and pens and other mark-making materials available.
About the speaker
Rachel Siobhán Tyler is a transdisciplinary artist, design historian, and educator, working at the intersection of art, architecture, fashion, and geography, collaborating with artists, designers, and makers. Their practice draws on a design background, and focuses on developing innovative approaches to feminist, queer, and inclusive knowledge-making. Rachel is a lecturer at Falmouth University, and is part of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project. Rachel’s work has been exhibited at Building Centre, London; Folkestone Triennale, Folkestone; The Bartlett School of Architecture, London; and at Somerset House, London; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, and on-schedule during London Fashion Week as a part of New Power Studio.
