Fashion Reimagined: recognising responsibility (and privilege) of being a designer.
<p>The film starts in 2017 with Amy Powney, Creative Director of <a href="https://motherofpearl.co.uk/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Mother of Pearl</a> winning the Designer Fashion Fund. After reading Naomi Klein’s book <em>No Logo</em> at Kingston University, where she studied knitwear design, Amy realised she couldn’t continue to design and create in the same way that the industry wanted. Her resulting ethically sourced knitwear collection she says seemed to confuse university tutors who didn’t know why you would be thinking such things.</p>
<p>During my own fashion degree, we were taught to consider our “labour of love”, but there weren’t really lessons on sustainability, and it was something I had to seek out myself, finding a juxtaposition in sourcing fabrics from Goldhawk Road to interrogating Yorkshire mills to understand exactly what they had.</p>
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