Westfield London<\/span><\/a> has announced the winners of its \u2018Future Fashion\u2019 competition, in collaboration with the Royal College of Art.<\/strong> <\/p>\nFuture Fashion saw the judges select six finalists, commissioning each artist with \u00a32,000 to complete their proposed works. The finished pieces are now being exhibited in Westfield London\u2019s eight exhibition windows located on Silver Walk<\/strong>.<\/p>\nEach window showcases of one of six different artistic media; textiles, sculpture, painting, photography, graphic design, and jewellery.<\/p>\n
Artists\u2019 designs were assessed by a panel of judges from internationally recognised brands. These include the Royal College of Art, John Lewis & Partners, Save Your Wardrobe, Emily Carter London and Love not Landfill.<\/p>\n
Future Fashion is part of Westfield\u2019s UK Community Resilience Programme, a five-year action plan that consolidates all the company\u2019s work in its communities aligned to URW\u2019s global \u2018Better Places 2030\u2019 strategy.<\/p>\n
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Future Fashion\u2019s six winners are:<\/p>\n
\nGraphics<\/strong> - Brand Conscience Ltd designed the Sus\u2019d Sustainability Graphic to empower consumers to instantly judge the relative sustainability impact of their fashion choices, to create more conscious consumption and improve the future health of the planet by simplifying sustainability and scoring transparently.<\/li>\nIllustration<\/strong> \u2013 Illustrator, educator and activist Elyse Blackshaw\u2019s \u2018You Can Be A Change Maker\u2019 design pushes the boundaries of fashion illustration as a communication tool to highlight the relationship between fashion and the consumer whilst raising awareness of environmental impacts.<\/li>\nJewellery<\/strong> \u2013 Founder of Pivot, Alice Moxley\u2019s \u201cBuilding and sustaining opportunties\u201d is a proposal to make a capsule collection with a group of Makers who are experiencing homelessness to pivot their lives through making and enterprise. They have co-designed a collection which is both environmentally sustainable, as well as enforcing their message of sustainable and long-term opportunity building.<\/li>\nPhotography<\/strong> - Winner Svetlana Talanova exhibits her camera-less photography series, created by manipulating photosensitive paper, light and time with sustainability at the core of her practice.<\/li>\nSculpture<\/strong> - Meredith Wood\u2019s work questions the fact that most garments are made of plastic and aims to raise awareness of fashion\u2019s plastic problem through biodegradable plastic sculptures on show at Westfield London.<\/li>\nTextile<\/strong> \u2013 Morphogenesis by Bea Br\u00fccker is set in a speculative reality characterized by pandemics and dead zones. In this scenario, individuals band together to use Biofashion as a political movement that empowers people through the creation of tools and communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHarita Shah, Marketing Director UK and Creative, Media, Events & Brand - Europe at URW says: \u201cWe are so pleased we\u2019re able to provide emerging talent from the local community a platform to have their work not only commissioned but exhibited here at Westfield London. Shining a light on the designers\u2019 passion for sustainability in fashion, this competition also aims to incentivise consumers to adopt more sustainable habits whilst highlighting our commitment to embedding sustainable and community-driven initiatives across our centres. Well done to all those that entered and to the six winners of the different mediums!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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