In February, Project Fashion Fixed, a community driven project, dedicated to raising awareness around fashion sustainability, unveiled their second exhibit in collaboration with Rethread Denim. The exhibit combines different aspects of the industry, the people involved, the impact on different people and places around the world. The most notable part included an installation of a 9ft, 280% scale pair of Jeans made using discarded pieces of denim.
During the last year, Project leader, Kerry Gibson has collaborated with Lincoln students, artists, academics and the Lincoln Climate Commission, to raise awareness about the social and environmental impacts of the fashion industry. Gibson said, “It opened my eyes up to the sustainable side of fashion and I saw it like a jigsaw puzzle taking in all the different aspects of the industry”.
English and Creative Writing student, Abbie Laycock, described her work during the first debut of Project Fashion Fixed as a “summary of weeks and weeks of teaching, everything that we’ve learnt and everything we think is crucial to understanding the issues of fast fashion.”
This year’s exhibition, supported by the Lincoln Creates initiative, is titled ‘Unpicking the story of your clothes’. The exhibit was opened to the public exclusively for three days paying homage to the different ways repurposed denim can become art and highlight the sustainability issues surrounding the denim industry.
According to the textile artist, Gibson’s love for the blue twill-woven fabric started 17 years ago, while she was selling second- hand denim and ultimately became the inspiration behind her latest project, Rethread Denim.