Somerset College

The aim of ‘Fashion Transitions’ is to provide a platform for discourse around the areas of fashion, wellbeing, nature and enterprise. The conference will encourage delegates to think about how change can happen and look to successful models of change/transition, examining how these can be applied to the fashion industry and consumer behaviour. The speakers chosen represent areas from across a wide range of disciplines.

Confirmed speakers are:

Otto von Busch, Fashion Hacktivist from Göteborg University (Sweden)

Alastair Fuad-Luke, winner of the publishing category European Environmental Design Awards for The Eco-design Handbook.

Lee Holdstock, Trade Relations Manager from the Soil Association

William Lana, Greenfibres

Tom Podkolinski, Finisterre

Piers Thomas, technical clothing, product and fashion designer

Julia Crew, founder of sustainable fashion brand  'i-did-nee-ken'

Toby Borland, mechanical and manufacturing design engineer

Ryan Manton, working in architecture

Lizzie Harrison, creator of community co-design project ‘ReMade in Leeds’

Fashion Footprints: Sustainable Approaches is a groundbreaking concept devised by CCANW and graduates from the MA Fashion and the Environment at London College of Fashion.

The pioneering exhibition explores the idea of fashion and textiles acting as an interface between humankind and the environment. It combines accessible illustrated display panels and representative garments and aims to highlight the key problems and major environmental and social impacts that result from the fashion and textile industries. The project considers realistic solutions embedded in existing practice, and seeks to dispel the ambivalence that is so often associated with fashion and sustainability.