Will Wearables Bring New Purpose to Fashion?
The fashion industry is ripe for disruption: old industrial models are increasingly unsustainable in a world that needs less consumption and more equality.
How can emerging technologies, new materials and the open design movement change the way fashion works, bringing a new set of principles in to play that have a social and cultural focus, moving beyond the individual and more about our collective futures? Can wearables help fashion to redirect itself, without people losing their self-expression and personal style?
Presenters
Alastair Parvin
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WikiHouse
Alastair Parvin is a designer / civil rights inventor.
He is co-founder of WikiHouse Foundation and a member of architecture & strategic innovation studio, 00 based in London, UK. He is current...
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Dir
Creative Economy Team
Beatrice Pembroke is Director, Creative Economy, at the British Council. She works with a global network of pioneers to produce interdisciplinary collaborations, support local talent and tackle the...
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