Photo: Dr Alice Payne at the Queensland University of Technology.
The future of fashion looks hopeful.
In honour of Fashion Revolution Week, I invited my colleague, Dr Alice Payne, to share some of her research and reflections on fashion and sustainability.
Alice is a fashion academic at the Queensland University of Technology. Her research interests include the fashion design process, the mass-market fashion industry, and the problem of design for sustainability within the fashion context.
Alice is a maker, a teacher and an author, and she talks about how the slow & local fashion approaches are weaving together with the mass-market & high-tech advances in fashion.
After 10 years working and researching in the area of sustainable fashion, Alice says she is hopeful about the future.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Alice’s earliest fashion memories and her mum’s vintage clothing.
- How her path in fashion began at art school but later led to PhD research focused on the mass-market.
- ‘A History of Costume in The West’ by Francois Boucher
- Ancient garments: kirtle & cotehardie.
- Xuly Bet, fashion brand.
- Meriel Chamberlain, founder of Full Circle Fibres.
- ‘Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy’ by Jonathan Chapman.
- H&M and closed loop recycling.
- Design theorists, Tony Fry & Anne-Marie Willis.
- The potential of fashion design to be an agent of change.
- Global connections in the area of sustainable fashion.
- Ontological design – how we are designed by the things we design.
- How might we consider different approaches to fashion design?
- Textiles Environment Design (TED) group and their TED TEN Design Strategies.
- Alice’s article, ‘Fashion Futuring in the Anthropocene: Sustainable Fashion as “Taming” and “Rewilding”‘ published in Fashion Theory.
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Photo: ‘Grow-Shrink-and-Turncoat’, modular fashion design by Alice Payne.