FASHION LEADERS SPEAK

Are you a fashion designer, fashion professional, business person, student, tutor, budding entrepreneur - or just interested in fashion? Whatever your role is - it does not have to stop at great clothes.

Come along and hear Edun, Topshop, Stirling Group, Pants to Poverty and others tell their stories - about inspirational fashion, and how it changed lives

Programme for the evening:

Evening chaired by Joanna Yarrow, Director of a sustainable company, Beyond Green, GMTV's green expert and presenter of BBC3's 'Outrageous Wasters'

7pm: Short presentations from fashion industry leaders and practitioners to include Claire Hamer from Topshop, a Stirling Group representative (M&S Suppliers), Christine Driscoll from Edun, Ben from Pants to Poverty and others.

7.30pm: Panel Discussion: How Fashion Can Change Live.

Followed by structured networking

More about Fashion+
Fashion+ is a DfID funded, Ethical Fashion Forum project aimed at reducing poverty and creating sustainable livelihoods in the supply chains to the UK fashion industry.
The fashion industry remains one of the most exploitative in the world, both to people and the environment. Inhuman working conditions, poverty wages and shocking environmental damage are widespread. Yet fashion is uniquely placed, as a labour intensive industry, to change lives and lift communities out of poverty.

The goal of the Fashion+ project is to integrate training on development, poverty reduction and sustainable livelihood creation as a core part of all fashion business training in the UK. The project brings together fashion support organisations and training bodies and will include a series of training events supported by resources.

If you would like to learn more or get involved with the project, visit our website: www.ethicalfashionforum.com (projects) or send an email to fashion+@ethicalfashionforum.com