We blogged about the protest by People Tree and War on Want, at the opening of the new Primark store in Tooting, London, in May. Well, following on from that is a petition.
Click here to sign it.
Archive for May, 2009
Primark Petition
Posted in News, tagged People Tree, Primark, Protests, War on Want on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Biomimetics – Nature Did It First
Posted in Events, tagged Event, KTN, biomimetics on May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On June 8th Materials KTN are organising a one-day FREE workshop entitled “Biomimetics – Nature Did It First”. The event will take place in Bristol. If you have any queries please contact Brian Knott mailto:workshops@materialsktn.net or telephone 01494 528718.
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.45 “Bio-Inspired Technologies and the Defence Technology Plan
Alex Parfitt, BAE Systems
11.15 “Design Strategies Taken [...]
Last Chance…
Posted in CSF News on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… to help CSF with some research. You know you want to.
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Updated: Designing Out Landfill
Posted in Events, tagged design, Event, Free, Waste on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
** Please see change of venue**
On 15th June 2009 the Technical Textiles and the Materials and Design Exchange sectors of the Materials KTN will host a high profile conference focusing on the innovative solutions that clothing designers & brands have developed in order to reduce landfill waste. This one-day FREE event entitled ‘Designing Out Landfill’ [...]
Clothes Swap
Posted in Events, tagged Event, Swapping, swishing on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There has been lots of chat about clothes swapping recently – what with the economic climate and all. Well now is your chance to get involved and try something new.
A music and clothing swapping event is taking place on Sunday 7th June – Feather Duster, the clothes swap will run from 4-6pm followed by live, [...]
Vintage at Net-A-Porter
Posted in Brands, tagged Brands, net-a-porter, Vintage on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New at Net-a-Porter is One Vintage – one offs sourced from the late 19th Century to the 1970s all restored to their former glory.
Tweet, Tweet
Posted in CSF News, tagged CSF, Twitter on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At last, CSF is catching up the rest of the world and has got a Twitter account. Please follow us here.
CSF in Sustainability Month
Posted in CSF News, tagged CSF, June, sustainability challenge on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
June is going to be a challenging month for the Centre for Sustainable Fashion. Not ones to rest on our laurels and credentials we are setting ourselves a weekly target/challenge for the whole of June. Hopefully these challenges will become part of our daily routine too.
The week beginning June 1st will see the start of [...]
What Not to Wear: Cotton and child slavery
Posted in Events, tagged Amnesty International, Cotton, Event, slavery on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Amnesty International are hosting a panel discussion on Tuesday 9th June addressing what can be done to end the use of forced labour in the cotton industry.
The panel will include:
Lucy Siegle (journalist, author and presenter); Joanna Ewart-James (Anti Slavery International); Juliette Williams (The Environmental Justice Foundation); Steve Grinter (International Textile, Garment & Leather Workers’ Federation); Lauren [...]
CSF Project Update
Posted in Industry News, tagged Business support, CSF, LCF, London Style, projects on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As some of you may or may not know CSF has a great new Business Support and Development project underfoot.
In partnership with Newham College CSF will be initially targetting London based small to medium sized fashion enterprises aiming to help them develop sustainable business practices through challenging and insightful training and advice sessions.
The myth that [...]
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