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A Fashion Legacy pre-meet

(see the Fashion Legacy concept and keywords such as creative quartets)
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Meeting between Francesco & John - 10th December 2024
  • N.B. these notes compiled in advance by JW

Workshop on 16th April 2025

  • GENERAL THEME: migration, cultural sustainability, craft communities
  • JW's workshop: alternatives, designers' roles, business models, narratives
notes for students

This workshop will challenge you to reimagine fashion with all of the fun but with next to zero damage. It will invite you to use all of your faculties (e.g. head, hand, heart and humour) to reinvent the global fashion system. You may like to draw upon your cultural heritage in order to create ‘longer legacies’ with values based on community, care and shared prosperity.

Some key concepts 1
  1. Design
  2. Business
  3. Creativity
  4. Craft communities
  5. Conservation and legacy
Some key concepts 2
  1. Care
  2. Money
  3. Alienation
  4. Accountability
  5. Responsibility
Some key concepts 3
  1. Pride
  2. Shame
  3. Mutualism
  4. Long-legacies
  5. Entredonneurship
  6. The Heritage & Legacy of Trees
  7. Integrating Head, Heart, Hand & Humour

Craft communities

  • See notes on John Ruskin's (1819–1900) theory of community
  • It maps the craft system and beneficiaries.
  • Ruskin listed four players:
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  2. One White Bit Craftsperson & the services s/he offers
  3. One White Bit The community
  4. One White Bit The ecosystem that sustains the above

One White Bit Ruskin Craft Map

  • The model is presented here as a visual interpretation (Ruskin only wrote about it).

Why the system is depicted in 3D

  1. We have interconnected the 4 themes so they have no particular order or hierarchy.
    • Whereas the one above is shown in a flat (2D) diagram the one below uses a 3D volume
    • (c.f. This is a tetrahedron

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An exercise

  1. "Which aspects of my cultural heritage would add value to my legacy?"
  2. "Which aspects of my cultural heritage might detract from my legacy?"
  3. "IDEALLY - how would you envision the ultimate purpose and expression of fashion?''
  4. ''Consider the ultimate Fashion designer/wearer as a shaman?

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