Fashion Revolution, an annual campaign is on between 19th-24th April 2022. This creates the chance for New Zealand fashion brands like Sly and Company to highlight their eco-friendly fashion practices.
Founded by Carry Somers and Orsola de Castro, it brings together the world’s largest fashion activism movement for seven days of action, and came about as the result of the tragic collapse of garment manufacturing factory, Rana Plaza, in 2013, which caused the death of 1,134 people, and injured approximately 2500. (Fashion Revolution.org).
Fashion Revolution 2022 Manifesto -This year, from Monday 18th to Sunday 24th April 2022, we will collectively re-imagine a just and equitable fashion system for people and the planet.
Passionate about being involved in the global movement calling for change & transparency within the fashion industry, we designers at Further Doings Studio, have curated a collection exhibiting reinvented, and recycled fashion and jewellery, using off-cuts and recycled materials, aiming for zero waste while challenging a more considered design approach. Highlighting eco-friendly garments made from up-cycled clothing and sustainably sourced materials, creating repurposed fashion made anew. This will be on display in our store/studio, throughout the month of April.
Showcasing an opportunity for designers alike, to stop and consider how design practices can be refined from concept to production, what happens with waste, and how to create and support a circular, sustainable fashion in New Zealand. As consumers, to ask the question, who made my clothes, where were they made, and were the workers paid fairly?
For more information and to support the Fashion Revolution movement head to https://www.fashionrevolution.org/
Third image on right of banner credited to Fashion Revolution Instagram Page.