Eco Fashion World

Last Thursday, August 2 saw Hackney celebrating the rising Fashion community at its Olympic time expo venue, Hackney House. The event brought together various fashion businesses and organizations based in the borough and the majority of them included sustainable brands such as Lily Cole’s ‘The North Circular’ and ‘Here Today Here Tomorrow’.

 
Central to the exhibition was an installation by set designer Robert Storey which featured CFE (Centre for Fashion Enterprise) designers such as Baartmans and Siegel, Matthew Miller, William Richard Green, Teatum Jones, Georgia Hardinge, Sibling, Hermione De Paula and ethical designer Christopher Raeburn.

 
Another exciting installation was by DISC (Designer-Manufacturer Innovation Support Centre) which is a non-profit organization launched earlier this year to support London based designers/brands with their production and manufacturing needs. DISC has various experts ranging from a garment technologist, UK production manager, Global sourcing manager and jewellery manufacturing developer. With such a great variety of experts to help you find your perfect production match, I’m sure local production and sourcing shouldn’t be that difficult for London based designers/brands anymore!

EFW writer Ishwari Thopte is a marketing and communications executive with London's pioneering business incubator - Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE) that supports and nurtures emerging fashion design talent. With an MA in Design Management for Fashion Industries from the prestigious London College of Fashion, Ishwari has had experience in various different roles ranging from fashion design and styling, retail, sales as well as fashion PR, digital media and most recently brand licensing. When she is not working on social media strategies, Ishwari can be found either in her dance studios performing to contemporary bollywood ballet or out in the countryside walking down a less trodden path. Check out Ishwari’s blog Nomadic Paradise.

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