Disrupting Fast Fashion

BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production (FSP) Year 3 PPP students recently worked with the conceptual artist Jeremy Hutchison on a project about waste colonialism. The students learnt from his project "Dead White Man", which examines the second-hand clothing market, of which billions of items are shipped to Africa. Nearly half of the items shipped have no market value and are dumped, burned, or heaped into landfill.

FSP students engaged in the material and sensory practice of handling low grade clothing sourced from a local textile waste company, LMB Waste and Reskinned, to create a series of small- scale effigies displayed here.

The effigies have a certain power, energy and imagination that gives agency to the students and translates the narrative of fashion overproduction and overconsumption into something tangible, visibly engaging and hopeful.