OCTOBER 2010

AUGUST 2010

1st – 3rd August
Pure London is the UK’s leading trade fashion exhibition presenting womenswear, footwear, accessories, unisex collections and ethical fashion. It is organised by Emap, a media company listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Pure London also showcases ethical fashion seminars and ethical brands. The Ethical Fashion Forum continues to support the ethical brands showing at Pure London.

Place: Olympia, London

Opening Times
Sunday 1 Aug: 9.30 – 6.00pm
Monday 2 Aug: 9.30 – 6.00pm
Tuesday 3 Aug: 9.30 – 4.00pm
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14th August
Art in the Park goes Slow Fashion
Place: Haldon Forest Park, Exeter

Art in the Park goes Slow Fashion will be held on Saturday August 14 at Haldon Forest Park, Exeter and promises to be a fantastic event for raising awareness of the impact of fashion and textiles in our lives and on the environment. It is a free event guaranteed to attract thousands of people to this extremely popular forest park that includes walking and cycling trails and CCANW, an arts and ecology organisation with a gallery on site.

Arts organisations from around Exeter and Devon will be providing free family – centred drop-in workshops and there will be music as well. Stall fees are quite reasonable and will be supported by CCANW’s summer exhibition ‘Fashion Footprints: Sustainable Approaches’ – which highlights themes from the seminal book by Kate Fletcher ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textiles’ and is curated by MA graduates of the London College of Fashion’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion.
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15th August
Eco Fashion Experience
Place: Haldon Forest Park, Exeter

A completely unique event to accompany CCANW’s Fashion Footprints exhibition, the ‘Eco Fashion Experience’ incorporates a live contemporary dance and music performance in the forest showing off the latest in sustainable fashion (the audience will be under cover), a presentation by Fashion-Hacktivist Otto von Bush and the Black Fashion Bureau’s ‘Old is the New Black’ recycling/dyeing workshop (see also www.oldisthenewblack.org). It’s an event not to be missed.
Admission of £12 (£10 conc.) even includes a free glass of wine and a slow fashion goodie bag!
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21st August
The Green ECO Fashion Show sponsored by Hermans ECO INC showcases designs from Satch & Sol, Nature Baby, Zosimos Botanicals LLC, Fibreactive Organics LLC and Anna Herman herself. Launched in 2009, it solely focusses on sustainable garments. A Best ECO Designer of the West contest will be held in conjunction. The entry fee for designers is just $50 and six garments may be submitted for presentation. The criteria are that the garments be constructed of organic cotton, hemp, silk, wool or a recycled material and that the garments were constructed with respect to fair trade practices.
Location: at Yellowstone Park Meet in front of OLD Faithful lodge
Time: 1pm
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31st March – 5th September
‘Sustainable Futures’ Exhibition, the Design Museum , Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
In association with Puma.Safe, the Design Museum is showcasing ‘Sustainable Futures’. This exhibition features design projects that explore issues associated with sustainability. Portrayed through a selection of directional design, the exhibition focusing on how design can lead the way and make a positive contribution towards a more sustainable future.

Curated under five themes: Cities, Energy and Economies, Food, Materiality and the Creative Citizen, Sustainable Futures will explore projects that are either in the market place or in development. Fashion designer Christopher Raeburn and his Digital Rainbow Collection which reuses Ministry of Defense parachute materials will be displayed alongside projects that have not yet been seen by a wider audience.
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26th May – 13th November
Eco-Fashion – Going Green On View at The Museum at FIT in New York
The Museum at FIT presents Eco-Fashion: Going Green, an exhibition exploring fashion’s relationship with the environment. Featuring more than 100 garments, accessories, and textiles from the mid-18th century to the present, Eco-Fashion: Going Green will examine both positive and negative environmental practices over the past two centuries, providing historical context for today’s eco-fashion movement.

Eco-Fashion: Going Green will begin with some of the finest examples of sustainable fashion by current, cutting-edge labels, including Ciel, Bodkin, Edun, FIN, and NOIR. Eco-Fashion: Going Green is organized by Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill, along with Tiffany Webber. The exhibition will be on view from May 26, 2010 through November 13, 2010 in the Fashion and Textile History Gallery at The Museum at FIT.

MUSEUM HOURS
Tuesday-Friday–noon-8 pm; Saturday–10 am-5 pm Closed Sunday, Monday, and legal holidays. Admission is free.
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21st June – 22nd Sept
Green by Design Summer Light Challenge

Green by Design are doing an awesome summer-long event called the Green by Design Summer Light Challenge that would help you improve your creativity and sense of eco-fashion. Through this event, they are challenging all of you eco-lovers out there to choose just 10 pieces of clothing to wear for the entire summer. That’s right – 10 clothes, 91 days. The Summer Light Challenge poses a great opportunity for you to sort through all the clutter and pick out your 10 favorite summer garments. Join the fun online and share all about your experience with the rest of our readership. They’d love to see how you put your creativity to the test and come up with some great mix-and-match ensembles.

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SEPTEMBER 2010

1st – 3rd September
Social Labelling in the Global Fashion Industry; An international multidisciplinary conference for academics and practitioners. School of Design, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

As consumer awareness and concern with ethical production increases, and forecasters point to an as yet untapped market potential so the search continues for robust means by which ethically conscious fashion consumers, and indeed other stakeholders, can be reassured. But this raises a series of questions. Can the market secure ethical outcomes and can a social label provide a credible guarantee of those outcomes? Who are the stakeholders in this process and how are their interests given a voice? What can we learn about past experiments with social labels? What are the alternatives? Does a union label mean that a product is sweat free? This timely international conference seeks to bring academics and practitioners together to critically examine the phenomenon of the social label from a range of historical, empirical, theoretical and politico-economic perspectives.

Key note speakers: – Harriet Lamb & Heather Franzese and AFL/Workers United member: Fairtrade in Garment Manufacture vs Union Labelling – Robert J Ross: Consumers and Producers: Agency, power and social enfranchisement – Joe Bozich: Knights Apparel and USAS Designated Supplier Programme – Scott Nova: Workers Rights Consortium

Ticket price: – £250 for 3 day conference – Or postgraduate rate £120 for 3 day conference

To register for this event, or find out more visit the Northumbria University website
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31st March – 5th September
‘Sustainable Futures’ Exhibition, the Design Museum , Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
In association with Puma.Safe, the Design Museum is showcasing ‘Sustainable Futures’. This exhibition features design projects that explore issues associated with sustainability. Portrayed through a selection of directional design, the exhibition focusing on how design can lead the way and make a positive contribution towards a more sustainable future.

Curated under five themes: Cities, Energy and Economies, Food, Materiality and the Creative Citizen, Sustainable Futures will explore projects that are either in the market place or in development. Fashion designer Christopher Raeburn and his Digital Rainbow Collection which reuses Ministry of Defense parachute materials will be displayed alongside projects that have not yet been seen by a wider audience.
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21st June – 22nd Sept
Green by Design Summer Light Challenge

Green by Design are doing an awesome summer-long event called the Green by Design Summer Light Challenge that would help you improve your creativity and sense of eco-fashion. Through this event, they are challenging all of you eco-lovers out there to choose just 10 pieces of clothing to wear for the entire summer. That’s right – 10 clothes, 91 days. The Summer Light Challenge poses a great opportunity for you to sort through all the clutter and pick out your 10 favorite summer garments. Join the fun online and share all about your experience with the rest of our readership. They’d love to see how you put your creativity to the test and come up with some great mix-and-match ensembles.
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10th Sept

Fashion’s Night Out: Celebrating ‘Slow’

Join Textile Arts Center and Ecouterre.com as they host a titillating evening of eco-friendly fashion as part of the spectacular world-wide Fashion’s Night Out, on Friday September 10, 2010. Taking place at TAC’s headquarters in Park Slope, Brooklyn, this singular event will encompass speakers, panelists, and workshops led by major contributors to the field, and well as shopping by local curated designers, networking, food, drinks, and DJ.

Full description of schedule and participants at Textile Arts Centre

Place: Textile Arts Centre, Park Slope, Brooklyn, USA
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12th – 14th Sept

The GreenShows

The GreenShows is the premiere fashion event exclusively committed to eco-friendly, ethically sound, fair-trade fashion during New York Fashion Week. The GreenShows produces a comprehensive canvas for full-length runway shows featuring an edited selection of designers. All invited designers are given the opportunity to show their entire collections to an audience of influential editors, buyers and fashion VIP’s.

We believe fashion can be considerate of the earth, animals and mankind. The mission of the GreenShows is to share that vision.

Place: Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 West,18th Street, NY • NY

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25th – 28th Sept 09.30 am – 06.00 pm

Ethical Fashion Show

The Ethical Fashion Show strives to publicise the ethical fashion which includes economic, human and environmental aspects. Ethical Fashion Show brings together designers who care about environmental and cultural skills. From chic to traditional fashion, including street wear, there’s something to suit everybody’s taste.

Ethical fashion contributes to the development of communities through sustainable action, supports local artisans and favours the use of raw materials and agents that reduce the impact on the environment.

Place: Dock en Seine Paris, Cité de la mode et du design, 34 Quai d’Austerlitz
75013 Paris, Ile de France • France

Contact: Régine Tandavarayen, Messe Frankfurt France, Phone: +33 (0) 685.200.417
Fax: +33 (0) 155.268.985
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28th – 30th Septemeber
Vancouver Eco Fashion Week, Vancouver, Canada.

Eco Fashion week is a biannual event celebrating sustainable principles and style while helping to identify and refine sustainable industry practice. It consists of – three days of fashion shows from local and international designers, media events and conferences focusing on everything eco and style related. VEFW seeks to make Vancouver a world-wide destination for environmentally friendly fashion and couture, and strengthen its image as a green, progressive and trend-setting city.

To celebrate sustainaible principles and styles
To identify and refine sustainable industry practices
To educate and inform about eco-friendly fashion

Leading eco-designers // Fashion buyers // Global media

A selection of the best eco-designers from around the world comes together to showcase their latest collections of environmentally friendly, trend-setting fashion. With collaboration from designers, buyers, models, agencies, fashion directors, trend setters and media, the message is global.

Informative seminars tailored to meet the interests of buyers, designers and consumers looking for information and resources related to eco-friendly practices in the clothing industry.

Every aspect of this event maintains environmentally friendly standards, from the printed materials to the food, drinks, and gift bags.
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26th May – 13th November
Eco-Fashion – Going Green On View at The Museum at FIT in New York
The Museum at FIT presents Eco-Fashion: Going Green, an exhibition exploring fashion’s relationship with the environment. Featuring more than 100 garments, accessories, and textiles from the mid-18th century to the present, Eco-Fashion: Going Green will examine both positive and negative environmental practices over the past two centuries, providing historical context for today’s eco-fashion movement.

Eco-Fashion: Going Green will begin with some of the finest examples of sustainable fashion by current, cutting-edge labels, including Ciel, Bodkin, Edun, FIN, and NOIR. Eco-Fashion: Going Green is organized by Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill, along with Tiffany Webber. The exhibition will be on view from May 26, 2010 through November 13, 2010 in the Fashion and Textile History Gallery at The Museum at FIT.

MUSEUM HOURS
Tuesday-Friday–noon-8 pm; Saturday–10 am-5 pm Closed Sunday, Monday, and legal holidays. Admission is free.
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30th Sept 08.00 pm

The Gina Conway Aveda Salon and Spas Charity Fashion Show showcases environmentally responsible collections from a number of high profile designers, alongside bespoke hair and makeup design from the award winning Gina Conway team. Small teams work towards a common goal of producing collections aimed at a ‘fantasy’ theme linked to current fashion, film and tv trends. The show offers you a great opportunity to promote your company on Fashion Tv, showcasing your product to millions of viewers worldwide. Not only will you be associating your business with high profile fashion and likeminded eco individuals, you are also supporting 2 worthwhile charities: Earthwatch Institute & GOSH (Great Ormond’s Street Hospital Charity). All profits raised from the 2010 show including ticket sales, gala auction and raffle prizes will be donated directly to the Earthwatch Institute and GOSH (Great Ormond’s Street Hospital Charity).

Venue: Jalouse London
Theme: fantasy
Guest Profile: 200 guests from hair and fashion related industries, press, VIP’s and eco-minded individuals.
Show Extras: Welcome beverages and canapés, entertainment and auction.

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OCTOBER 2010

26th May – 13th November
Eco-Fashion – Going Green On View at The Museum at FIT in New York
The Museum at FIT presents Eco-Fashion: Going Green, an exhibition exploring fashion’s relationship with the environment. Featuring more than 100 garments, accessories, and textiles from the mid-18th century to the present, Eco-Fashion: Going Green will examine both positive and negative environmental practices over the past two centuries, providing historical context for today’s eco-fashion movement.

Eco-Fashion: Going Green will begin with some of the finest examples of sustainable fashion by current, cutting-edge labels, including Ciel, Bodkin, Edun, FIN, and NOIR. Eco-Fashion: Going Green is organized by Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill, along with Tiffany Webber. The exhibition will be on view from May 26, 2010 through November 13, 2010 in the Fashion and Textile History Gallery at The Museum at FIT.

MUSEUM HOURS
Tuesday-Friday–noon-8 pm; Saturday–10 am-5 pm Closed Sunday, Monday, and legal holidays. Admission is free.

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