Faye L Fraser

12/02/2020

💭of my next blend

23/01/2020

Errrrr YES, we all know it’s been happening for a longer than most think, and it will continue to happen until we address multiple elephants in the room, RESOURCES....like how we live on one that has less than sixty odd harvests left if we don’t alter our systems, not just for production but ya know food as well! Let’s not even mention virgin petroleum based , oop’s I did! How about further raising safety standards within manufacturing for a predominantly work force, because still, after our only defence is a weaker agreement between the BGMEA and the that has already faced backlash from industry. Paying people a global living wage?!? let’s face it, like many other industries it is an industry that relies on poverty pay to aid maximisation of profit (yay for capitalism 🙄). I don’t see how people can widen these margins any more while proclaiming moral business practice! The widespread re-education of consumption, maybe as everyone in the nineties (or at least its seemed everyone in East Northants) had ‘A dog is for life not just for Christmas’ sticker in their cars, could we replace ‘a dog’ with ? EOL?!?!?! On top of there being SO many issues with companies claiming , and expecting that’s that, just because you may have given a bunch of money for the planting of should not enable the continuation of dirty energy/resource use for your production!!!! And this is literally just skimming the surface

23/01/2020

It’s been happening for a longer than you think, and it will continue to happen until we address multiple elephants in the room, RESOURCES....like how we live on one planet that has less than sixty odd harvests left if we don’t alter our agricultural systems, not just for textile fibre production but ya know food as well! Let’s not even mention virgin petroleum based materials, oop’s I did! How about further raising safety standards within manufacturing for a predominantly female work force, because still, after Rana Plaza we now a weak agreement between the BGMEA and the Bangladesh Accord that has already faced backlash from industry. Paying people a global living wage, let’s face it, like many other industries it is an industry that relies on poverty pay to aid maximisation of profit (yay for capitalism 🙄). I don’t see how people can widen these margins any more while proclaiming moral business practice! The widespread re-education of consumption, maybe as everyone in the nineties (or at least its seemed everyone in East Northants) had ‘A dog is for life not just for Christmas’ sticker in their cars, could we replace ‘a dog’ with clothing? EOL?!?!?! On top of there being SO many issues with companies claiming carbon neutrality, and expecting that’s that, just because you may have given a bunch of money for the planting of trees should not enable the continuation of dirty energy/resource use for your production!!!! And this is literally just skimming the surface

Paris fashion fortnight began last week with an apocalyptic warning. "Our Mother Earth will not be able to support life, we will not be able to breathe... If we don't open our hearts and our minds, it's the End," a disembodied voice intoned as

22/10/2019

Cutest press yet.

17/10/2019

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The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) and QSA Partners have announced a major milestone in their Circular Fashion Fast Forward project, as adidas launches its new adidas Infinite Play service.

14/10/2019

It’s I’m beginning my week of all things by finishing off sewing these I made using end of roll wool in contrasting checks!

27/09/2019

REPORT While the garment industry worldwide is by now well aware of what transpired on 24th April 2013 when the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,134 workers in the five garment factories it housed and injuring 2,500, few ar

26/09/2019

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A sustainable environment means consuming less, not differently. With retail therapy losing its appeal, that should be easy, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

26/09/2019

The results from my exploration last week for with mustard yellows to olive greens

23/09/2019

Already missing the set up that I was honoured to be a part of last week. Hosted by the amazing I got to develop some more of my skills and ideas, focusing in on leaf and root, an that could have the potential to be used at scale as ingredients. I began by making three different strengths of mordant, boiling the leaves to release oxalic acid within these. Then submerging three sets of Swatches in each strength! @ Hackney Wick

19/09/2019

mordanted and ! making use of my development samples from my MA

19/09/2019

leaf mordanted fibre in a rhubarb root dye bath 100% with for 🌱 are life