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Future Fashion Now design competition launched
15 Aug '20
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Pic: Future Fashion Now / Ellen MacArthur Foundation
WeDesign has launched the Future Fashion Now design competition, in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN. It is a global, sustainable design competition that enables entrants to rethink how the fashion industry works. The Foundation works to inspire a generation to re-think, re-design, and build a positive future circular economy.
Inspired by Make Fashion Circular and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the competition engages students, designers, fashion weeks, and the global fashion industry to design a sustainable outfit or accessory to inspire the future of fashion, according to a media statement by the Foundation.
The fashion industry is inherently linear, resources are used to make clothing that ultimately ends up as waste. The industry is producing twice the amount of clothes than it was in the early 2000s and at the same time we are wearing our clothes less and less. Almost 75 per cent of all clothes are landfilled or burned, with only 1 per cent being recycled into new clothes.
In a circular economy for fashion, clothes, shoes, and accessories are used more, are made from safe and renewable materials, and are made to be made again. Competition entries should embrace circularity and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, whilst still maintaining a product that will look and feel good. The item needs to reflect the times we live in, the fashion industry we need, and the future we want to see.
The competition will be judged by a panel of fashion and sustainability experts, including the Foundation’s Make Fashion Circular lead, Francois Souchet. The competition is open to all, with different categories and prizes and closes on the September 30, 2020.
Inspired by Make Fashion Circular and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the competition engages students, designers, fashion weeks, and the global fashion industry to design a sustainable outfit or accessory to inspire the future of fashion, according to a media statement by the Foundation.
The fashion industry is inherently linear, resources are used to make clothing that ultimately ends up as waste. The industry is producing twice the amount of clothes than it was in the early 2000s and at the same time we are wearing our clothes less and less. Almost 75 per cent of all clothes are landfilled or burned, with only 1 per cent being recycled into new clothes.
In a circular economy for fashion, clothes, shoes, and accessories are used more, are made from safe and renewable materials, and are made to be made again. Competition entries should embrace circularity and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, whilst still maintaining a product that will look and feel good. The item needs to reflect the times we live in, the fashion industry we need, and the future we want to see.
The competition will be judged by a panel of fashion and sustainability experts, including the Foundation’s Make Fashion Circular lead, Francois Souchet. The competition is open to all, with different categories and prizes and closes on the September 30, 2020.
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