LCF’s Professor Reina Lewis took Faith & Fashion to St Mary’s Church Walthamstow, London, to discuss how diverse religious, spiritual, secular and philosophical moral perspectives are articulated through fashion and style. In relation to the exhibition Material Witnesses: Fashion as Everyday Activism, Reina set out to explore how people use fashion in forms of everyday activism, creativity, and sustainability in a panel discussion with:
- Dr Christine Checinska, the V&A’s Senior Curator of African and African Diaspora Fashion and Lead Curator of the Africa Fashion exhibition
- Humeera Dar, whose graduate menswear collection drew on her Kashmiri heritage – using dead stock to create streetwear with messages of support for Human Rights
- Alisa Ruzavina, artist, designer, and educator, whose interdisciplinary socially-engaged practice and community work is informed by vegan philosophy and animist beliefs
Join Reina to hear the panel and audience discuss fashion’s role in expressing materially how people see themselves and their beliefs and in shaping the means through which this can be articulated.
LCF Global X Faith & Fashion: Material Witnesses: Everyday Fashion Activism, 23 May 2023