Click here to download: DesigningSlowFashion.pdfDesigning slow fashion, Kate Fletcher
In the tasks suggested in Designing Slow Fashion, Dr. Kate Fletcher encourages students to explore a range of themes and rhythms present in fashion and through this to build insight and understanding about the impact of today's predominant ‘fast' fashion speed. Using this understanding, students can begin to develop design outcomes relating to speeds other than just fast economic speeds.
Related activities: 'Slow Fashion' by Kate Fletcher.
This teaching activity has been taken from Parker, L. and Dickson, M.A. (2009) Sustainable Fashion: A Handbook for Educators, Bristol: Labour Behind the Label. Download the whole publication here.
| 1. Level | UG |
| 2. Pre-requisite knowledge required by educators | D. Specific knowledge required: It would be useful to read the ‘Slow Fashion' contribution in this Handbook |
| 3. Pre-requisite knowledge required by students | D. Specific knowledge required: It would be useful to read the ‘Slow Fashion' contribution in this Handbook |
| 4. Number of students | A group up to 30 would be ideal |
| 5. Length of time required | If all the tasks were completed this could make up about a week's short project |
| 6. Type of activity | Individual work, Group work, Ideas for projects, assignments and briefs, Discussion and debate, Research related, Practical |
| 7. Discipline | Business, Cross-curricular, Design |
| 8. Topics covered | Care and repair, Consumers, Environment, Fair trade, Second hand clothes, Slow Fashion, Textiles, Working conditions |
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