Assembly for a Fashion Commons at Defashion Dorset: How to Foster a Local Clothing Culture

Fashion Act Now and Our Common Market at Defashion Dorset 

Hawkers Farm, Stour Provost, is hosting the second year of this annual event and members of Fashion Act Now and the team of Our Common Market will be contributing. We'll be running a People's Assembly on Friday 24th May (time TBC) where we'll listen to local practitioners and deliberating on what collective action should be taken to support community-based non-extractive clothing systems. We'll try to answer the question, 'How should we Foster a Local Clothing Culture?'

Defashion Dorset is an opportunity to celebrate local fibre growers and makers and a local clothing culture. Jenny Morisetti, founder of Defashion Dorset asks, "We buy locally grown food to support farmers so why don’t we consider buying locally grown clothing?"  According to Climate Words “To ‘Defashion’ is to combat the fashion industry’s role in the climate crisis and transition to regenerative and fair…