Past event: Fairtrade Fashion: Weaving the Fabric of Society
This event has now finished. Please see our events website for details of upcoming events at Brookes.
Friday 9 March 2012, 14:30 until 16:00
Location
Main Lecture Theatre, Clerici, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane site
Details
Speakers:
1. Professor Jeremy MacClancy, a social anthropologist who investigates the social and cultural dimensions of people’s practice.
2. Tamsin Barber, lecturer in political sociology at Oxford Brookes University
3. Ilaria Pasquinelli, a fashion industry expert working with businesses on international and sustainability marketing projects. She works for various organisations and sits on the board of the Ethical Fashion Consultancy.
4. Nicola Thornley, a product development consultant and Business Manager for Trading for Development – an Oxford-based organisation that works with World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO) producers in some of the economically poorest regions of the world.
Short description of event:
A panel discussion questioning the issues surrounding Fairtrade Fashion in society.
- The dilemma that is created when developing communities produce clothes for the multi-national garment industry as opposed to utilizing indigenous skills – does it matter if these skills are lost?
- Do fair trade projects benefit communities, are we helping to subsidies unsustainable industries by supporting fair trade initiatives, and are we romanticizing the idea of fair trade?
- The impact of the globalizing economy on women who are expected to conform to traditional roles – the empowerment of entrepreneurship.
The event forms part of the Ethical Fashion Symposium (9th-11th March) organised by the O3 Gallery, in association with Oxford Fashion Week. Oxford Brookes is hosting this discussion as part of its celebration of Fairtrade Fortnight which culminates on March 11th.
4. Nicola Thornley, a product development consultant and Business Manager for Trading for Development – an Oxford-based organisation that works with World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO) producers in some of the economically poorest regions of the world.
Short description of event:
A panel discussion questioning the issues surrounding Fairtrade Fashion in society.
- The dilemma that is created when developing communities produce clothes for the multi-national garment industry as opposed to utilizing indigenous skills – does it matter if these skills are lost?
- Do fair trade projects benefit communities, are we helping to subsidies unsustainable industries by supporting fair trade initiatives, and are we romanticizing the idea of fair trade?
- The impact of the globalizing economy on women who are expected to conform to traditional roles – the empowerment of entrepreneurship.
The event forms part of the Ethical Fashion Symposium (9th-11th March) organised by the O3 Gallery, in association with Oxford Fashion Week. Oxford Brookes is hosting this discussion as part of its celebration of Fairtrade Fortnight which culminates on March 11th.
Tickets: £5 / £4 students
