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#TippingTheBalance: How a new digital platform will tackle the barriers to equal job opportunities
TipStart is a new digital platform taking on privilege, nepotism and barriers to equal opportunity, to help people realise their ambitions. It aims to challenge the power of privilege in employment by matching experienced professionals with those who cannot rely on their existing networks or background to break into historically privileged professions.
Government Resources: A new payment scheme for people self-isolating
This week’s updated government resources- including information on funding for people on low incomes who need to self-isolate. Plus guidance on commuting and car sharing.
Fashion industry must consider COVID-19 an environmental crisis
Eight million tonnes of plastic waste go into our oceans every year. Even worse, it is expected that by 2050, there will be more plastic by weight than fish in the oceans. And this was before the COVID-19 crisis.
“It does not become us as Lebanese to give up”: Rebuilding Lebanon’s Fashion Industry
Home to the showrooms and studios of internationally acclaimed couturiers, Beirut has long earned its place on the global style map. But the capital is now facing its third successive crisis this year, following the devastating explosion in the city’s port. Can the ongoing relief efforts help its culturally celebrated fashion industry to thrive once more?
Crimes Against Fashion: How can we protect against Intellectual Property theft?
One of the biggest assets we have in the creative industry is our Intellectual Property (IP). But according to UAL’s Creative and Cultural IP Rights Specialist, fashion is copied all too often due to its subjective nature. So how can we manage and protect our IP?
An Ode to Reigniting Your Creativity
“Since the pandemic began, I’ve seen a fairly even split of creative energy. Some have totally immersed themselves, whilst many of us have felt particularly restless and claustrophobic, without a clear road or plan ahead.” Here Meg Pirie shares how she has learnt to reignite her creativity post-lockdown.
Misguided in Name, Misguided in Nature: An honest review of the C4's Inside Missguided: Made in Manchester
Despite its promising title, viewers are offered a very limited glimpse inside Missguided’s supply chain in a PR-friendly documentary that is riddled with faux empowerment and white feminism, says Melissa Watt
Government Resources: Easing of restrictions for businesses and close contact services
This week’s updated government resources- including guidance about the close contact services (hairdressers, barbers, beauticians, tattooists, sports and massage therapists, dress fitters, tailors and fashion designers) which reopened in England on 15 August.
How the Rental Fashion Market Has Made Itself Pandemic-proof
Despite initial fears that Covid-19 would kill people’s desire to share their wardrobes, rental fashion sites are now thriving. My Wardrobe HQ, in particular, has seen a 50% increase in their listings since the start of lockdown. So how has the rental fashion model survived the pandemic and why is the sharing economy needed now, more than ever?
Sink or Swim? The Future of Fashion’s Cruise Collections
What once began in the 1920’s as a mini capsule wardrobe for those looking to catch some winter sun or revel in a quick getaway have snowballed into a whole new life form. But is the lavish production of cruise collections furthering fashion’s sustainability narrative? We weigh in on the waning relevance of cruise collections, their digitalisation and how they will survive a new state of play in fashion…
Fashioning the Future: Q&A with the graduates of LCF's Fashion Futures course
A Q&A with four of the incredibly talented graduates who participated in our “Radical Sustainabilities” event — they explain the motivations behind their Final Masters Projects, their inspirations and how they believe the pandemic will shape sustainability in the fashion industry moving forwards.
OP-ED: Online Resale Inadvertently Fuels Disposable Fashion
Depop has captured the hearts of the ‘Instagram generation’, seeing a 200% increase in traffic since April. But the app hailed as a sustainable way to shop may be inadvertently fuelling our desire for new. Depop closely imitates the fast fashion cycle where users can shop from a constant flow of cheap new arrivals, many of which are barely worn.
Fashion Roundtable X London College of Fashion: The Radical Sustainabilities Webinar
On Thursday evening, Fashion Roundtable and four graduates of the MA Fashion Futures at London College of Fashion came together to discuss their work and launch individual portfolios during an online event.
In The Red: Is Klarna the new debt-ridden store card?
No drama, just Klarna? Right now, the Buy Now Pay Later bank is making waves, with slick advertising and seamless checkout processes that are almost too easy and don’t come with all the usual amounts of small print text. Klarna Bank AB was found to be offering not just zero-interest deals but formal credit agreements on shopping purchases as low as £35.
"This pandemic is not democratic": Tamara Cincik on the pressures facing women
Tamara Cincik discusses the pressures facing women during the pandemic. Many are bearing the brunt of household duties and homeschooling: “What does this tell us about how we are valued as women both in the home, in the workplace and in society in 2020?”
"Inclusivity is seen as a performative thing": A roundup of our last weekly webinar
Now we are easing out of lockdown and into a new normal, the tide must change for everyone to rest and regroup from the last few months and pause. Before Fashion Roundtable turns off its audio, this week’s topic was one of the most important of all— ARE YOU REPRESENTED?
Digital Innovation & Sustainability: Why everyone's talking about "Phygital Fashion"
The fashion industry is getting a Matrix makeover with technology and innovation driving digital disruption. From AI, to blockchain, augmented realities, 3D scanning, and phygital experiences - the possibilities for designers, creatives and customers are being reimagined. So, how this is accelerating fashion’s sustainability commitments?
MEETING MINUTES: All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ethics & Sustainability in Fashion- Cleaning Up Fashion
Catch up with all the insights from the APPG for Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion’s virtual meeting— Cleaning Up Fashion: Accelerating Sustainability and Supply Chain Transparency in the Fashion Industry