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Shaping Fashion 2021 and Beyond
Shaping Fashion is open for all Global Shapers Hubs to join by organizing a project, activity / event that activates your local community around the topic of more sustainable and fair fashion.
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There is an annual kick-off call by the Global Shapers Community with Fashion Revolution. Keep an eye out on the calendar to join this meeting to learn more about the challenges of the fashion industry and how your Hub can shape fashion!
Shaping Fashion has been adapting to the Covid-19 pandemic. The current pandemic has amplified the fashion industry’s broken model of extreme waste and overproduction. In a time of pause and renewed desire to support one another amid uncertain times, we must instill a culture of clothes keeping and caring. Plus, this is a great time to call for a sustainable fashion industry after Covid-19. Now that the Coronavirus pandemic requires us to stay home and stay safe, Shaping Fashion and Fashion Revolution have joined forces for digital activation and empowerment of citizens. What are the Shapers doing?
The Shaping Fashion Committee organized two online webinars to inform people about the impact of Covid-19 on the fashion industry and to activate citizens on actions they can take to shape a more sustainable fashion industry:
Next to that, the Shaping Fashion Committee is creating thought leadership pieces (WEF Agenda) on the impact of Covid-19 on the fashion industry and organizes social media campaigns in partnership to raise awareness on sustainable fashion.
This year around 40 hubs are participating in Shaping Fashion projects, either during Fashion Revolution Week or beyond. Projects include supporting vulnerable women by providing them work through making masks, writing a handbook on how to make medical masks and take care of them, online webinars on mask making and sustainable fashion, open studios digital tour videos where local sustainable entrepreneurs share their impact stories, virtual sustainable shopping events, social media campaigns to highlight the impact of Covid-19 on the local fashion industry and stimulating re-using and up-cycling clothes, online hackathons to help fashion brands on Covid-19 challenges they face and much more!
We invite all Global Shapers Hubs to join us in a coordinated social media campaign to draw attention to Shaping Fashion and Fashion Revolution Week, as well as highlight the importance of sustainable manufacturing and consumption of fashion from an environmental and social standpoint, especially in a world after Covid-19. We’ll pose four key calls to action:
The committee collaborated with a visual designer to create an informative and inspiring video that explains the five steps for sharing over social media and launched it on April 22nd, Earth day. Access the video here: https://vimeo.com/410629194
Launched in 2018, Shaping Fashion is a global initiative to scale sustainable transformations in the fashion industry through the Global Shapers network. Over the years the cross-hub collaboration included over >55 different hubs! Every year during Fashion Revolution Week in April hubs collaborate with local teams of industry experts to organise events, workshops, clothes swaps and film screenings to push for change in their communities. Beyond that, hubs co-create longer term projects with lasting positive impact on the sustainability of the fashion industry.
In 2020 >40 hubs participated in Shaping Fashion activities that are linked to Covid-19: Accra, Almaty, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Bucaramanga, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Cebu, Copenhagen, Cordoba, Cuernavaca, Dallas, Detroit, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Edmonton, Gabarone, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Iloilo, Johannesburg, Lusaka, Luxembourg City, Medellin, Mexico City, Milan, Minneapolis, Minsk, Mumbai, Muscat, Ottowa, Santa Cruz, Shanghai, Taipei, Toronto, Vancouver, Vientiene.
So join the movement for eco-ethical fashion!
Under the leadership of Amsterdam Hub, hubs around the world organised meaningful events, workshops, clothes swaps and film screenings to call for revolutionary and ethical change in their communities.
For example, Vancouver Hub gathered industry experts and next generation fashion designers to provide insights on the challenges, opportunities and innovations facing sustainable fashion.
The hub also hosted an upcycling workshop to mainstream circular economy models to make ethical, sustainable fashion the norm – and Dusseldorf Hub hosted similar events too.
Check out more highlights from: Corrientes Hub, Lahore Hub, and Davao Hub.
Other participating hubs include: Iloilo Hub, Lusaka Hub, Lyon Hub, Milan Hub, Quito Hub, Raleigh Hub and Taipei Hub.
Recently, Amsterdam Hub presented the project to Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, and asked if there were any areas where their expertise might be helpful.
After the meeting, the hub reflected:
"So much has to happen in the world, but on days like this I do honestly feel empowered that we can be and make the change. Especially when being able to share ideas and collaborate with like-minded individuals across the world through the Global Shapers Community!"