• Put on an exhibition where different artists or fashion designers or brands can exhibit work/ clothing lines for all too see.
• Social media account that posts different images, slogans, ideas about how we can be sustainable
• reusing tents at festivals to create a clothing line
• posters that promote the campaign centred around less is more and lasting longer ideologies.

304.230866/GEO – Geographies of sexualities: theory practices and politics

306.766/LES – the lesbian and gay studies reader

306.766/GAY – The Gay Past.

306.766/INS – Inside/Out. Lesbian theories, Gay theories

306.766/LES – The Lesbian and Gay studies reader

338.47687/FLE – Fashion & Sustainability. Design for change

338.47687/ROU – Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion

338.47687/MIN – Naked Fashion. The new sustainable fashion revolution

741.67/ MCQ – Graphic Agitation 2

820.9/NEW – New lesbian criticism: literacy and cultural readings

Topics to consider:

• The idea of absence
• Waste
  – Sweat shops
  – Who made my clothes campaign
• Idea of MENDING – visible mending – the control
• Roland Bart – reading
• Look out for Student Central for readings/ essays
• Temperature
• Animals becoming extinct
• Education – how little we are influenced/ informed
• Materials – manufacturing, marketing, idea of impact of the
• Southeast Asia and the pollutants they are living with
• The idea of a Keepsake – ww2 women making quilts out of clothes they had

Sites to visit:

Instagram: Stories behind things

 

Artists:

Jessica Rogdon – recycling clothing – APC – off cuts of clothes go to make quilts

Katy Mcguier

Becky early

JJ Noki

Thom of Holland

Johnathan Branbrook – Disobedient objects exhibit

Suzan Cianciolo – fine artist – not produced to fit each season; called run

Moon – critical analysis – exercises

Polyester fibres breaking off – plastic – reverting climate change

 

Exhibitions:

What is luxury? 

• A persons definition – bling culture against a 16th century gold hand woven cape
• new money
• personal opinion

Threads of feeling

• Foundling  museum
• Mothers take chunks of child’s clothing in the hope to reunite with child