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‘Circles of Hope’ Design Competition
Help us overcome the hurdle of profit before people and make giant leaps in environmental awareness by taking part in a live brief for People Tree.
Yasmin Sari Dress
YASMIN SARI DRESS
Light weight summer dress made from recycled sari in shades of blue with clear crystals around the neckline and adjustable cotton ties at shoulder. Dresses are made from recycled saris so each one is unique. Shades and patterns will vary and some dresses will also have patches for added individually, from the Emma Watson’s SoFT Spring Summer collaboration range…
Emma Watson visits Swallows
Emma Watson visited Swallows in Bangladesh with our CEO Safia Minney, to see how People Tree clothes were made. Swallows is a village as well as a workplace for over 200 women.
Profits from their work with People Tree help cover the running costs of a school for 300 children and a daycare centre.
Emma Watson spring collaboration preview!
Hot off the press! Emma Watson’s final collaboration with People Tree has launched with a spring preview. Here’s what Emma Watson said about designing the collection…
The importance of Fair Trade fashion
Last year Emma Watson made a trip to Bangladesh where she had the chance to visit producers and see her forth coming collaboration with People Tree for Spring/Summer 2011 being produced.
Slow Fashion – fairy lights and feathers in Shibuya
Show time - fairy lights and feathers
to promote sustainable and Fair Trade fashion in spring we’d never imagined that it would galvanise so many university students in Japan and UK.
Akari and the incredible team!
School of Fair Trade and People Tree intern Akari Kuga did an amazing job with other students, Natsuki and Akiko to organise a Slow Fashion extravaganza near Shibuya in Tokyo. They invited Baba (former designer of Dress Camp who is the first Japanese designer to win a competition between FIT and Parsons in New York), and me to discuss fashion and what it meant to us.
Tama Art School students show their work
They also organised three fashion shows, together with Tama Art University students and ‘xChange’ to promote fashion made out of sustainable materials and to promote clothes swapping, followed by the People Tree Youth Collection endorsed by Emma Watson. There were 80 people PACKED into a gallery in Shibuya – that is how we kept warm!
The new future: Slow fashion
Chinese garment factory workers
There was a presentation about Chinese garment workers conditions of young women the same age as the university students gathered – where workers do an average 14 hours working day – Fast fashion really began to catch on in Japan about 5 years ago, resulting in 2.3 million tons of clothing which is disposed of each year – of which only 10% is ever recycled or reused. Making second hand clothes and charity shop shopping cool is the challenge in Japan – There’s no culture of it as in the UK where we all buy from Charity Shops.
2.3 million tons of garments are thrown away each year
People Tree youth collection, endorsed by Emma Watson
Motomi and me
Motoomi Baba
There was a panel discussion with me and Baba Motoomi. He’s a real artist, we talked about fashion and what it means to us. Predictably we were poles apart – Motomi talked about how you have to live and breathe fashion to suceed in it – and I talked about the real cost of Fashion. I’m intrigued by him and his designs – so I decided to see his collection later that week.
Some very creative work from Tama Art school students.
Good styling, upcycling and second hand - so cute I love it!
Great event – well done everyone. Slow fashion rocks!
