TEXTILES IN SOCIETY TOOLKIT
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This toolkit is intended to be an invaluable resource for teachers to use when introducing the concepts of sustainability and ethical practices to their Design & Technologies - Textiles students. |
Fashion Revolution Week Fashion Revolution Week takes place each April in memory of the Rana Plaza disaster. They have a range of school resources for teachers of Design & Technology – Textiles that focus on the damaging impact of fast fashion. |
The Guide to Ethical Shopping in Melbourne The Guide to Ethical Shopping in Melbourne has a list of local designers/shops who use ethical practises and care about the rights of the people making their products. |
Frontline Fashion Frontline Fashion is a digital mini-series hosted by Cara G McIlroy. It follows emerging designers from across the globe who are determined to change the future of fashion – one of the most polluting industries imaginable. And there are three seasons to watch! |
Zero Waste Daniel Daniel Silverstein is Zero Waste Daniel, a New York-based clothing designer and zero waste pioneer. This great video (6 mins) explores his professional practice and discusses how designers like his are fighting to make the fashion industry more ethical and sustainable. |
We Wear Culture Google's We Wear Culture – the Stories Behind What We Wear is a fantastic resource. Described as “the most widely accessible and comprehensive fashion collection on the planet”, it is a searchable guide to a collective archive of some 30,000 fashion pieces that puts “three millennia of fashion at your fingertips.” |
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What She Makes Oxfam’s What She Makes campaign seeks to help the women who make our clothes but do not make enough to live on. It’s a good resource for looking at the impact of fast fashion, not just on the environment but on human rights. |
The True Cost The True Cost - a movie not to miss about the terrible human and environmental cost of the fashion industry. It’s available as a digital download from $9.99 USD |
A Warm Embrace that Saves Lives Click HERE for a TED Talk by Jane Chen (4 mins long) on a fantastic textiles design project designed to save the lives of babies born in the developing world. |
War on Waste Season 3 |
Design Sustainable Fashion Business Victoria has developed a sustainability guide for the Fashion sector. Click HERE to access. |
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Wool’s Environmental Credentials The Woolmark Company has some handy factsheets on wool's environmental credentials. |
Fashion using Plastic Waste Ena Pelly is a Victorian label making clothing from plastic bottle waste. |
Eco Design Guide - Fashion and Textiles Design This helpful document unpacks what sustainable fashion design should be. |
Explore the work of The Social Outfit - a social enterprise charity and fashion producer which provides employment and training to people from refugee communities via their studio and store. This is a great example of an organisation following a triple bottom line sustainability strategy - key knowledge for the 2024-2028 VCE Product Design & Technologies study. |
Every year, Baptist World Aid produce an Ethical Fashion Guide, which shines a spotlight on which brands are proactively protecting workers and the environment and those who are not. This is a great way for students to see at a glance which retailers prioritise sustainability in their practices. |
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The Story of Stuff – Microfibres Created by the team who brought us award-winning The Story of Stuff movie, this short film looks at the harmful impact micro plastics are having on the environment. Watch it HERE. |
Indigenous Fashion Projects Runway at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week 2021 For the first time ever, Australian Fashion Week 2021 included a runway show dedicated to the work of First Nations designers. It celebrated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designers from across Australia, sharing their unique stories, journeys, rich cultural heritage and innovative designs. You can watch the show HERE. |
Possum Skin Cloaks Museums Victoria have published a beautiful account of the history and art of the Possum Skin Cloak. It focuses on the museum's two historical cloaks, which were collected from the Yorta Yorta and Gunditjmara peoples in the mid-19th Century, and remain the only known surviving cloaks in the world of their time and place. Alongside these are the stories of two newly-commissioned cloaks, which connect the makers to their ancestors and tell stories both timeless and contemporary through their designs. |
Possum Skin Cloaks by Maree Clarke This fantastic resource for Levels 3-6 is from the NGV. Students learn about how Maree made her possum-skin cloak and the personal meaning of the design, then create a design representing significant places or journeys from their own lives. It includes a video, worksheet, resources list, tips on using the design process and evaluating their work. |
First Nations Fashion is more than just the fabric This article from the ABC is about the Emerging Mob in Fashion show at the Melbourne Fashion Festival. It offers some beautiful examples of how First Nations culture and experience influences design, and asks the big question, Can anyone wear First Nations fashion? |
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