Project title: (Undecided)
What is the project about?
My project is about highlighting the issues we face within the fast fashion industry; I'd like to question why we've become so used to discarding items of clothing without thinking about the repercussions of it and how we could make little changes in order to make fashion more sustainable. Shopping sustainably is something that’s talked about much more now, however there are still many people unaware about how much the fast fashion industry damages the environment. With climate change and global warming being a huge and current issue, more people are eager to learn about the ways in which they can change their behaviours to work sustainably through solutions on waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery.
How does the project relate to, and build on, areas of interest and strengths you have identified in your developing practice?
I’ve used current world issues in my previous projects before to motivate me and place my projects into the real world. I’ve been to a number of protests before, including Black Lives Matter, to illustrate and document these events. I’ve also taken an interest in using wasted and recycled materials to produce final outcomes that are informative about the amount of waste we produce. I’ve screen printed before and that’s definitely something I’d like to carry on using within my practice, as well as creating fashion illustrations.
How does the project relate to visual communication practices more broadly and where do you situate the project?
Public engagement / fashion / illustration / textiles / activism
How will you begin to research your project? Eg. Primary, secondary methods such as visiting locations, galleries, museums, libraries, archives, public collections etc.
Loanhood: Rave and Repair event
The London Textile Fair
Book: Overdressed: The shockingly high cost of cheap fashion
Book: Shaping sustainable fashion: Changing the way we make and wear clothes
Fashioned from Nature exhibition V&A
Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI
Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture
What are the initial materials and equipment you will use to explore your project?
Initially I’ll start off with fashion illustrations but will soon explore screen printing onto fabrics and think about ways in which I can use and acquire textiles and materials.
Feedback from Eleni (tutor):
Focus on a specific point within fast fashion eg. dyeing clothes
Petit Pli
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Find one element, age? Items of clothing?
What gets thrown away the most? What can I make of anything?
Making jackets out of thrown away tents from festivals
Benefits? Saving money, sick outfits
Fat studio, second life club - visit? Talk with them? Rachel is part of the group
Talented culture
May Hands - artist
Tom Sachs - makes hi-tech items out of second hand items - nike shoes / ironic cardboard shoes
Paris is burning
Scrapstore work & play !! In tooting, second hand materials - you can get a membership and collect however many materials appeal to you
Landfill, recycled places
Adaptable clothes that can be more than one thing - Krystal Paniagua