Fabricating the Body: Textiles and Human Health in Historical Perspective

The 2011 Pasold Conference will be held on the 6-7 April 2011 at the University of Exeter on the theme of 'Fabricating the Body: Textiles and Human Health in Historical Perspective'. The conference will be supported jointly by the Pasold Research Fund and the Wellcome Trust.

Here is  a link to the conference website for those interested in textiles research and who might be in a position to attend http://www.pasold.co.uk/index.php/conferences/conference-2011

Our paper will be presented on the second day of the conference and is entitled "Sustainable Fashion Textiles Design: Value Adding through Technological Enhancement"

Sustainable vs. Unsustainable

Here is a link to a paper co-authored by Dr Joan Farrer and Kim Fraser which discusses some key themes of sustainable fashion in respect of the unstainability of current levels of production and consumption of fashion textiles products. This paper will be published in the new Anti-po-des Design Journal, 1(1) 1-18.

Update: 22nd November, 2011. Here is the link to the official version of the final paper http://www.anti-po-des-designjournal.org.nz/current-issue/abstracts-and-papers/farrer-rca-fraser/

ReFashioning New Zealand: A Practitioner’s Reflection on Fast Fashion Implications

Here is a link to a paper presented by Kim Fraser at the seventh International Conference on Environment, Economic and Social Sustainability held at University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand from 5th to 7th January, 2011. The paper entitled "ReFashioning New Zealand: A Practitioner's Reflection on Fast Fashion Implications" is soon to be published. We will upload a link to the full paper when it is released.