Fashioning an Ethical Industry

Bristol

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

Profession / role:

Non-profit organisation

Company / organisation:

Labour Behind the Label

Website (if you have one):

www.fashioninganethicalindustry.org

My primary role in relation to fashion is:

Other

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Enthusiastic, ethically minded, students & educators

About me / About business or organisation:

Fashioning an Ethical Industry (FEI) is a fashion-education project of Labour Behind the Label. The project works with tutors and students on fashion-related courses to give an overview of how the fashion industry can positively and negatively impact on the working conditions in garment manufacture and to inspire students - as the next generation of industry players - to raise standards for workers in the fashion industry of the future.

We run student workshops, organise tutor training events, provide teaching resources and work with tutors to integrate ethical issues related to garment manufacture into their teaching.

Career history / Company history:

FEI works with all fashion colleges across the UK. Whilst we cannot claim all of the success since the project started, there are now more than 30 universities covering ethical issues. For example; the Reader in Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion, a Professor of Ethical Fashion at Northumbria & MAs in Ethical Fashion at UCA & LCF.

FEI is a 5 year project. The principal funder from June 2005 to May 2008 was the Department for International Development (DFID) from the Development Awareness Fund. The project also secured a major grant from June 2007 to June 2010 from the European Commission from the Actions to Raise Public Awareness of Development Issues in Europe fund. Unfortunately this funding has to end and 2010 will be FEI's last year. Consequently we’re passing the responsibility to carry on this work to the tutors and students that FEI has been in touch with over these 5 years.

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