Fashion / Catwalk
Preview: Love the Future of Fashion
Following a day of inspiring and provocative discussion at TEDxBristol on November 11, Bristol-based environmental and social change group Love The Future plan to keep the ball rolling with a feel-good, Fair Trade fashion event focused on sustainability in the retail industry.
Love The Future of Fashion, a night of stalls, catwalks, music and performance all aiming to challenge existing perceptions of fashion and its creation, will see a range of international and local designers showcase new collections created entirely with sustainable fabrics and upcycled materials.
Love the Future aim to challenge the way people think about the ethics of clothing production and the idea of consumption for consumption’s sake. Supported by one of the best-known fashion activists of recent decades, Vivienne Westwood, the event will take on the mantle of the British designer’s “buy less, choose well, make it last” mantra, challenging the audience at the Colston Hall to reconsider their relationship with retail.
Milliner and Green Party councillor Ani Stafford-Townsend will share her no-waste approach to alternative fashion, alongside music from Cuban reggae band AMJ Collective and runway shows by Yen Couture, Bristol Textile Recyclers and Fair Trade pioneers People Tree.
Director Darren Hall explains the ethos behind the event: “In the UK we throw away 1.5 million tonnes of clothes every year and it is estimated that we have £30 billion of unused clothes in our wardrobes.”
“It is incredibly important that mainstream fashion industry uses technology and design to create clothes that enhance the world around us as well as dressing us up. Our Love the Future of Fashion event is designed to showcase clothing that creates the real feel good factor.”
For more information and tickets visit www.colstonhall.org/shows/love-the-future-fashion.
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