Yesterday a whole host of fashion thinkers joined @LCFLondon and Head of College Professor Frances Corner – @FCorner – to discuss why fashion matters to society.
On the occasion of the launch of Frances’ new book, Why Fashion Matters, LCF are hosting three tweet chats to discover more about why fashion really does matter.
Tweet chat number two covered diverse ground again, with thoughts from designers, campaigners, bloggers, academics and students shedding light on the central question: Why does fashion matter to society?
Lots of conversation was generated around how our relationship with fashion reflects our relationships with one another and the problems society faces. Tweeters considered sustainability and waste…
following on from last week – clothes are like a visual language and language is fundamental to how we interact +create society @LCFLondon
— Frances Corner (@FCorner) April 23, 2014
@LCFLondon @FCorner @sustfash @CraftOfUse Yes, the value a society places on garments says a lot about its values. #whyfashionmatters
— Lori Smith (@lipsticklori) April 23, 2014
@FCorner @LCFLondon @lipsticklori @sustfash in UK 500,000 tonnes clothes -> landfill every year http://t.co/R8p93kIFIv #whyfashionmatters
— Rosie Willatt (@rosemarywillatt) April 23, 2014
…And also topics which touch upon the Fashion Revolution Day campaign; worker’s rights and our role as consumers and citizens:
.@CavaCharlotte @LCFLondon According to a 2012 report *, over 1000 garment workers have been killed since 1990 in preventable factory fires.
— Frances Corner (@FCorner) April 23, 2014
.@FCorner Appalling. Interesting film @DirtyWhiteGold RE cotton. Dir. @monstris asks "When you bag a bargain, who pays?" #whyfashionmatters
— Charlotte Gush (@CharlotteGush) April 23, 2014
#whyfashionmatters tomorrow fashion will unite people all over the world for those who it parted one year ago!#insideout @Fash_Rev
— HereTodayHereTomorrw (@HTHT_ShopStudio) April 23, 2014
Tweeters considered how a diverse society should be represented by diverse fashion images, and whether this was being achieved. This led to thoughts about London as a diverse place with a great range of fashion styles:
@Afrizion And it's not just damaging 4 the excluded – when fashion looks the same it's BORING. Need diversity4creativity! #whyfashionmatters
— All Walks Catwalk (@allwalkscatwalk) April 23, 2014
@LCFLondon @Sasha_Solomka @lipsticklori our London society is multi-layered and accepting I feel! #whyfashionmatters we give people #freedom
— Blanck (@BlanckDigital) April 23, 2014
Fashion is not only self-expression but a reflection of our popular culture #whyfashionmatters @KitNeale @susiebubble pic.twitter.com/PwaHqMkQX4
— J – P E G (@jj_peg) April 23, 2014
@BlanckDigital @LCFLondon @lipsticklori #whyfashionmatters London accepts (with few exceptions) variety, shame 'mainstream' fashion doesn't
— Oleksandra (@Olexa_Solomka) April 23, 2014
Conversations also centred on how fashion is making an impact on different communities across the world, how the fashion media is changing and what this says about our contemporary society, and what qualities a creative graduate should have to contribute to our society. Thank you to all of those who contributed to the conversation and made it so lively and revealing!