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EnglishIncentives for designers to go into sustainable fashion in the UK
12.2007, Alexandra Perschau
Nine leading sustainable fashion businesses in the UK launched a competition for young fashion designers titled "Make your mark in Fashion". This news comes together with PAN UK's sponsorship for fashion design students in its mini-grant programme "Organic by Design".
Both initiatives show the immense attention which is currently paid in the UK to this important issue. Young designers are a special target group which hold the key to achieving positive change in the world of fashion by creating products that combine design, innovation and sustainability.
PAN UK is offering to support selected final year fashion design students who wish to use organic cotton as part of their graduate collection and thereby wants to showcase the creative potential for organic cotton products in the fashion world. Up to 10 grants will be awarded to selected students in the UK.
The other competition tackles the designers to consider more than just style, quality and cost, but to as well take into account the needs of workers providing the raw materials and manufacturing the goods and the environmental impact of production processes.
A team of 3 to 6 persons can apply for this competition and three winning teams will then get the chance to work with one of the nine businesses to create a collection in time for the London Fashion Week in September 2008.
Further information on PAN UK mini-grant programme can be found at http://www.pan-uk.org/Projects/Cotton/grant/index.htm .
Further information on the "Make your mark in Fashion" competition can be found at http://www.makeyourmarkinfashion.org/enter
Author: Alexandra Perschau, PAN Germany, Germany; alexandra.perschau(at)pan-germany.org, http://www.pan-germany.org