Fixing Fashion Academy is a comprehensive video + text + images resource for teaching about fast fashion and how to extend the useful life of clothes.
Subject matter + hands-on.
The resource offers high-level orientation followed by in-depth information and its relevance to the environment. Ranges from the economics of fast fashion, to the chemistry of fibers, to zipper replacement techniques, to stitch types for frayed sleeve edges, to the aesthetic, chemical and cultural differences between synthetic and natural dyes, to much more.
Fibers, fabrics, sewing and seams
How to care for clothes
How to repair clothes
How to upgrade clothes and keep them longer
Short videos illustrate hands-on.
Teachers can draw on selected tutorials for specific projects, or use the resource in its entirety as a comprehensive conceptual and technical unit on fast fashion, textiles and caring for clothes.
The Fixing Fashion Academy includes a call to action and resources for getting started.
This three minute video offers an engaging orientation to their work and goals.
Go to — Fixing Fashion Academy
Age — 9th - 12th grade (14 - 18 years old))
Cost — Free
Source — Fixing Fashion, Global
Fixing Fashion is a global community “making repair, care and upgrade the new fashion.” Championing reducing the amount of waste produced by fast fashion, the initiative provides tutorials on how to repair and upgrade clothes, encourages designing and wearing Fixed Fashion, and creates an equipped and energized global community working to remake fashion. Fixing Fashion is a project of One Army, “a group of people from around the world working on global problems affecting the planet and humanity."
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