Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Kate Fletcher will discuss how current fashion sector activities approach ecosystem health, largely as an operational issue and nature as dead resource.
Typically, fashion industry needs are placed at the top of a hierarchy and nature at the bottom - if it is even considered at all.
In this talk, a new fashion-nature relationship is enacted which moves beyond more ‘nature-friendly’ decisions slotted into the conventional system. As essentially it is the conventional system itself and its lack of recognition of ecological limits, its preference for mechanistic control and its view of human superiority over other species, which is the problem.
Fletcher will unfold the lines of interdependence and care with diverse opportunities for changed fashion provision and expression. Throughout she will make reference to projects including Fashion Ecologies, Earth Logic and Wild Dress.
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Kate Fletcher (PhD) is Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.
Fletcher is one of the most cited scholars in fashion and sustainability, and her work, including that on post-growth fashion, fashion localism, decentring durability and Earth Logic that defines and challenges the field.
Her latest work is about design and nature. She has also written and/or edited nine other books available in eight languages and is a co-founder of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion.
