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Sustainable Fashion
Is green the new black? There seems to have been an increase in the number of glossy fashion magazines with a ‘green theme’ but how prepared are textile students to take up the challenges of sustainability.
Eco-fashion
Fashion activist Kate Pears reports that Australians spend approximately $1.7 billion each year on clothing and accessories we don’t wear, or wear a few times and dismiss. So what can students do?
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Encourage students to set up their own clothing exchange, a fun and free activity encouraging collective action for sustainable development
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Explore material reuse and recycling in students’ textiles projects - perhaps junior students could do some t-shirt surgery or t-shirt mash-ups.
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Explore fair trade issues in the classroom with education materials from Etiko Fair Trade
