- Fashion (R)evolution
Runner-up
- Tempestuous 2020
Key words that describe the "personality" of this issue:
- Bold
- Communicative
- Creative
- Diverse
- Educational
- Essential
- Eye-catching
- Fashion with a purpose, a message and a voice
- Hopeful
- Informative
- Insightful
- Invigorating
- Outspoken
- Predictive
Suggested topics:
- Feature on how different creatives spent their time in quarantine
- Feature on Tik Tok and how the industry has used it as a tool
- How to take sustainable fashion seriously, how to shop sustainably.
- Interview features of alumni or anyone in the fashion industry who may relate to the theme
- Feature on disabilities and fashion (note recent article on a young model with Down Syndrome as the new face of a Gucci beauty campaign
- Unisex clothing and also gender switches like women wearing more men’s clothing / men wearing women’s clothing
- Sustainable fashion: huge trend now, eco-friendly, donation to a charity per each sale
- Custom designers & 1/1 item makers - @etai.la makes items out of luxury designer items like making a chair upholstered with an LV beach towel. Lots of designers making 1/1 items now and using vintage or repurposed fabrics such as @sophodes, @ruacarlota
- Use of different types of models in fashion now - Winnie Harlow, plus size, cultural diversity
- What happens next for new graduating designers that are now competing with unemployed experienced designers?
- In a world that has shifted due to the global pandemic and global recession, will fashion be on the list of essentials or lost forever?
- Now more than ever we need to re-evaluate what is important to mankind and the environment. How can fashion help or how is it adding to the problem?
- Will fast fashion explode due to its affordability or with the light of the recession glaring upon the fashion world force society in to making clothing more ethically or from home?
- How to support BLM in an appropriate manner? What are some BLM companies?
Other suggestions:
- Online launch party through Collaborate or some form of live-streaming
- Taking advantage of the digital medium in some creative way to stress how different life is as a way to signal the acceleration of change in the fashion industry
