Go fash yourself

With Lorri's recommendation, have a looky at this website: http://fashematics.com/
TOTAL GENIUS.
Also, loving new background!

British Design Awards

See the shortlist here.

Some really beautiful designs. Quite a lot of textiletastic ones too!

Eco footprint of fashion

Hey I know there must be somebody doing a dissertation thats about social or environmental sustainablility and textiles.

I was browsing the net and came accross the Pategonia site that shows you the journey that your garment has taken and tells you information about how sustainably manufactured it has been


Pategonia - The footprint chronicals

Mill Shop Job

Hi ladies!

i know the hand in date has passed but if you are interested in this part-time job please email the link below!

The Fabric Mill at Halley Stevensons are looking to recruit someone with an
interest and working knowledge of fabrics. Ideally the candidate would be
able to suitably advise customers as to the appropriateness of particular
fabrics for the job they are doing. i.e. upholstery or curtains. Also useful
would be the ability to calculate fabric requirements from window
measurements given by the customer. Previous retail experience also
desirable. More importantly personality and excellent customer service
skills are essential as training can be provided in product knowledge and
fabric calculations. Hours are yet to be decided but are likely to be on
average 8 hours per week (all at weekends), perhaps more. There will also be
opportunity to cover any holidays and sickness. The starting rate of pay
will be in the region of £7.00/hr. If anyone wants to be considered then
email andy@waxedcotton.com . The closing date for applications is next
Friday 3rd September.

Carrie

RSA Winners gallery is up!

CLICK HERE FOR DIGITEX

Only looked at a couple so far but I'm not blown away.

Degree show funding: possible Kickstart (oh-ho)

Hiya kittens,

Hope you're all having a lovely holiday so far.

I've just been made aware of this totally awesome funding site, Kickstarter, that we could possibly use to get funding for our degree show. Especially if we pimp it over our Twitter account (which I'll need to remember the password to and give everyone when we get back to uni). You can put rewards/incentives like posters/prints/t-shirts or whatever (or our fabulous callendar ;P ) on it in banded price brackets.

EDIT: Oh, wait you need a US bank account (anyone got one of those?)... but, I'm sure there's probably other similar sites/things out there for the UK too.

EDIT 2: OK, found IndieGoGo which is more UK/International friendly. This is probably the best bet if we end up going with this idea. :)

Dissertation

Hi girls!
Hope you're all having a good summer! I've been so lazy so far and just started thinking about my dissertation. Just wanted to ask a favour.
After feedback I realised I need to take it in a new direction. I'm doing it on the use of textiles/textile design in the fields of medicine and healthcare. My new direction is about textile thinking and its role in healthcare and medicine (all I can remember about the RSA project is "textile thinking" being mentioned all the time!). I just wanted to know if you'd be up for giving me your opinions on what textile thinking is (and maybe how it can overlap with areas like medicine)? I'm not quite at that stage yet but just wanted to check people would be up for it? I thought it would be great to get the opinions of the class because as undergraduate students we are the future of the area I am looking at.
Also does anyone know if "textile thinking" is a widely used term or if its just something our tutors say?
One last thing, Lori, I wondered if I would be able to talk to you at some point about your RSA project? I think it would be a great example.
Thanks & enjoy the rest of the summer! (shame its cloudy today :-( )
Caroline x