Use your voice and your power to transform fashion industry

March 31st, 2016
For Immediate Release

FASHION REVOLUTION in partnership with JUST ATELIER
presents
UNSTITCHED: Local Fashion Revolution
Pop-Up with Urban Dream Brokerage
April 18 - 24th 2016
19 George St, Dunedin (Just down from the Octagon)

It’s time to use your voice and your power to transform the fashion industry
into a force for good.
It’s time for a FASHION REVOLUTION!

Dunedin’s eco fashion hub JUST ATELIER, along with FASHION REVOLUTION are working with URBAN DREAM BROKERAGE Dunedin to create a unique interactive experience for our local community to engage in socially and environmentally positive fashion initiatives.

We believe that fashion can be made in a safe, clean and beautiful way. Where creativity, quality, environment and people are valued equally.

On 24 April 2013, 1,134 people were killed and over 2,500 were injured when the Rana Plaza complex collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. We believe that’s too many people to lose on one day.

That’s when Fashion Revolution was born.

Fashion Revolution, established in 2013, is a global movement present in 83 countries, advocating for greater transparency, traceability and environmental responsibility in the fashion supply chain. In 2015, Fashion Revolution Day on April 24, achieved an online media reach of 16.5 billion, over 60 million unique users and 124 million impressions of #whomademyclothes in addition to seeing over 350 events held around the world.

Supporters include Livia Firth, Stella McCartney, Christopher Raeburn, models Lily Cole, Laura Wells, Amber Valetta and Christy Turlington as well as brands and designers including Kit Willow, Ginger and Smart, Nobody Denim, CUE, Nudie, Patagonia, Akira Isogawa, American Apparel.

Worldwide press coverage includes The Australian, SMH, BBC, Le Monde, NY Times, Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Daily Telegraph,Sunday Style, iD Magazine, Catalogue, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Channel 7, The Guardian, The Huffington Post and the NZ Herald Viva Magazine amongst many more.

What is our goal? Fashion Revolution wants to ignite a revolution to radically change the way our clothes are sourced, produced and purchased. As consumers, we no longer know who makes our clothes and we don’t know the true cost of the things we buy. The garment industry supply chain is fractured and producers have become faceless. This is costing lives. We believe that rebuilding the broken links across the whole supply chain, from farmer to consumer, is the only way to transform the entire industry. Fashion Revolution brings everyone together to make that happen.

Fashion Revolution Day brings people from all over the world together to use the power of fashion to change the story for the people who make the world’s clothes and accessories.

It is an international movement with a mission to empower everyone involved in the fashion industry (which is all of us!) to promote an industry which values people, the environment, creativity and profits in equal measure. Fashion Revolution events will be taking place all around the world, and is again set to gain massive media attention in 2016.

What’s happening in Dunedin? During the first week of the April school holidays, we will create a pop up space to explore, create and share ideas about contemporary fashion in a central city space. Including a photo booth and plenty of opportunities to see and engage with information on the fashion process; with resources and information from Fashion Revolution.

We will be skill sharing and giving people the chance to get hands-on with the processes involved in creating, personalising and repurposing contemporary fashion.

Workshops open to all ages by local Dunedin textile artists, Designers, Craftivists, Senorita AweSUMO, Desi Liversage; Just Atelier Trust including Mend and Make Awesome, Re:Fashion Upcycling, lunchtime BYO crafting.

We would love to have YOUR PARTICIPATION in creating a Fashion Revolution in Dunedin!

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