Why we think we should make fast fashion even faster.
Rebecca EarleyProfessor of Sustainable Textile & Fashion Design (UAL)Director of the Textile Futures Research Centre (TFRC)Textiles Environment Design (TED) Research GroupMistra Future Fashion design researcher
HYBRID TALKS | SSE, Stockholm | 8 Feb 2016
What is Fast?
Fashion Haulers, You Tube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6uKcgwJV_w&list=PLCE59974DB2BC235E
Everything comes to an end…
… so we need to get ready for this.
Fast Circles: PROactive Approaches & Designing-in Cyclability
We need to be very clear which segment of the fashion industry we are designing for and which specific garment scenarios.
Each garment has a different ‘fashion life’ – from birth to death.
Designing for Fashion Lives
Designing for Material Cycles
Collaborating Across Sectors
Raw Material Speeds
BIO REGEN OIL
Production Speeds
DIGITAL MECHANICAL HAND
Fashion Speeds
FASHION CLASSIC VINTAGE
Recovery Speeds
CHEMICAL MECHANICAL UPCYCLING
Speeds, Goldsworthy (2016)
Designing for Speeds
Textile Toolbox, Earley & Goldsworthy (2014)
What might Ultra Fast Fashion look like?
Might Ultra Fast Fashion look like this?
Might Super Slow Fashion look like this?
Thank You.
Special thanks to Dr. Kate Goldsworthy, Professor Kay Politowicz and the researchers at:
Textiles Environment Design (TED)Mistra Future Fashion The #Haulternative?