Eco Chic – Sustainable Fashion Arcola’s Green Sundays
6 June 2010 – 1:00-7:00pm
Programme
1:00 – Delicious food all day from Mighty Veg Delight
1:00 – 3:00 “Fashion Futures” Forum for the Future’s 15 minute animation considers what the fashion industry will look like in 2025. Will fashion be affected by issues like resource shortages, energy hikes and climate change?
1:30 – 4:00 ‘Upcycling’ drop in workshop with The Dress Doctor Learn how to breathe new life into your wardrobe by altering, customising and reinventing pieces you already own. Bring your own clothing to work on. All sewing materials provided.
1.30 – 4.30 Fashion exhibition and retail space
Ivana Basilotta, Ada Zanditon, Eco-Boudoir, Oxfam Dalston, Environmental Justice Foundation and others
2:00 – 3:00 Swap Shop - Bring along at least one good quality, clean item of clothing, or an accessory, that you would feel proud to pass on and swap it for something else!
2:00 – 4:00 Eco Dress Up corner – hosted by Laura Hemming-Lowe from SKIPtheatre. Try on designer pieces, be professionally styled and photographed by Ludovic Des Cognets.
4:30 – 5:30 Speakers & Q&A Session chaired by Hannah Higginson from Fashioning an Ethical Industry
Speakers
Tamsin Lejeune from the Ethical Fashion Forum
Jocelyn Whipple from Element23
Janine Passley, EI8HT
Ivana Basilotta – Fashion Designer
Charlie Habershon from Near Far
5.30 – 5:45 Near Far & Good One Fashion Performance
5:45 – 7:00 Film programme
• The Dollar A Day Dress (approx 60 mins)
Panorama travelled the world to create “The dollar a day dress” – a symbol of how the world trade system harms the poor.
• Katharine Hamnett on Organic Cotton (5 mins)
• White Gold – the True Cost of Cotton, Environmental Justice Foundation (7 mins)
Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola St, E8 2DJ