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Green Gown Award for Social Responsibility 2008. Shared Talent. What is the role of design in moving us towards a more sustainable fashion industry ...
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Slide 2:Centre for Sustainable Fashion
The Centre for Sustainable Fashion provokes, challenges and questions the fashion status quo.
Through collaboration we design transforming solutions that balance ecology, society and culture.
Slide 3:Shared Talent South AfricaGreen Gown Award for Social Responsibility 2008
Slide 5:Shared Talent
What is the role of design in moving us towards a more sustainable fashion industry where social justice, ecological balance, culture and identity are part of the definition of fashion?
What are the practical implications of such a role?
Slide 6:Shared Talent
Design is what links creativity and innovation. It shapes ideas to become practical and attractive propositions for users or customers. Design may be described as creativity deployed to a specific end.
The Cox Review of Creativity in Business, 2005
Slide 9:Shared Talent
- 12 London College of Fashion students from across disciplines.
- Working with South African crafts groups supporting women with HIV and AIDS.
- Bringing skills and creativity together to create new fashion products as a result of collaboration and sharing of talent.
Slide 23:Shared Talent as a model is currently undergoing its third incarnation, working with Indian designers to showcase Indian sustainable textiles, with the support of Defra.