DEFASHION: A STRATEGY FOR RADICAL CARE OF PEOPLE AND PLANET

Fashion Act Now presents: 

Defashion: a strategy of radical care of people and Planet

At ‘WAYS OF CARING - PRACTICING SOLIDARITY’

International Fashion Conference

Organized by ArtEZ University of the Arts x State of Fashion

In collaboration with Fashion Revolution

Join the livestream at https://practicingsolidarity.artez.nl/conference-program/livestream/

Fashion Act Now is pleased to be presenting our strategy for radical care of people and planet. We invite curious fashion professionals and creative practitioners to join us in developing a deeper knowledge of solidarity in the fashion industry. 

Join us to listen to voices from the clothing pluriverse - the diverse local clothing traditions that are in-tune with the needs of people, cultures, and planet.

Two Indigenous weavers, Uli Panggabean from Sumatra, Indonesia, and Matico Lema, from Otavalo, Ecuador, share what they are doing to sustain their unique clothing traditions. We'll also hear from Susan Dye and Ashley Walker, natural dyers from the UK, striving to unearth, and build upon, knowledge and traditions lost in the industrialisation of Fashion. These are voices from fashion's sacrifice zones, illustrating cultures viewed disposable by the dominant Fashion system.

Fashion Act Now will then host a discussion on how we can nurture the clothing pluriverse. We will conclude by providing insights into the meaning of Defashion and how it can help provide solidarity to those preserving traditions and creating new traditions and customs. Fashion Act Now believes that dismantling the monoculture of Fashion is key to a future in which humans live in harmony with the planet.

Join us by registering here.

Tune in at 10pm UK, 11pm Netherlands, 5pm New York

Participation is free.

Visit practicingsolidarity.artez.nl for more info.

More about the conference

June 30 & July 1, 2022

Online + live in Arnhem, The Netherlands

The conference ‘Ways of Caring - Practicing Solidarity’ explores how to practice solidarity in fashion. In response to the Covid-19 outbreak, we’ve heard many calls for solidarity, a more solidary fashion industry and more solidary practices of making and wearing. Curious fashion professionals and creative practitioners from around the world are invited to join a 48-hour hybrid conference to develop deeper knowledge on the topic - beyond the boundaries of the fashion discipline. Through interactive presentations, talks, lectures, demonstrations and workshops you will tune in with relevant thinkers, create with inspiring makers, and interact with like-minded fashion practitioners. Together, we will work towards a more solidary fashion system.

The conference will kick off on June 30 with an inspiring online programme curated by 10 fashion platforms and collectives from around the globe. Participants include Sueli Maxakali and Paula Berbert, Rio Ethical Fashion from Brazil, Fashion Revolution, the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion, Ricarda Bigolin and Chantal Kirby from Australia, Bhaavya Goenka from India, Fashion Act Now, Amy Twigger Holroyd and the Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion.

On July 1st, the conference continues live in Arnhem with demonstrations, lectures, workshops and discussions by critical fashion practitioners including Anna Piroska Tóth, Louise Croff Blake, Caulfield-Sriklad, Ben Barry and Mila Burcikova & Monica Buchan amongst many others.

The conference is organized by the ArtEZ Fashion Professorship and State of Fashion, in collaboration with ArtEZ BA Fashion Design, MA Critical Fashion Practices and Fashion Revolution. Supported by Gemeente Arnhem.

Visit practicingsolidarity.artez.nl for more info.