SFW 2023
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER
ONLINE, ACROSS THE UK & INTERNATIONALLY
Sustainable Fashion Week (SFW) is the only fashion week of its kind.
Our programme exploded across the UK in September and October 2023, working in partnership with organisations in different regions to inspire, upskill and empower you to take action and boldly demand a fashion industry that is clean, green and fair.
This year our theme celebrated everything preloved, secondhand, handed-down, reworked and reworn.
2023 IMPACT REPORT
Each year, after Sustainable Fashion Week ends, we take a moment to take stock, survey our contributors and participants and get a sense of how it went.
This year has been a big year for our little team and our bevvy of brilliant volunteers, partners, repairers, speakers, workshop hosts and of course… all of you who attended one of the events.
So far this year we’ve connected with over 170,000 people in communities across the UK and internationally too! This has been achieved primarily through collaborative partnerships with individuals and organisations, all working towards a shared goal.
Have a read of what we did, who we worked with, what we’re celebrating and what tough lessons we’ve learnt too.
KEY IMPACT
COMMUNITY PROGRAMME
Our Community Programme was an explosion of activity led by YOU! Hosted by individuals, organisations and your neighbours…
Pic credit: National Trust
COMMUNITY PROGRAMME
Taking place across the UK, all these events are produced by organisations, individuals and community groups - all committed to sharing skills, knowledge and style to create a new fashion system.
Pic credit: Fashion Reimagined
FILM SCREENINGS // FASHION REIMAGINED
Trailblazing fashion designer Amy Powney is on a mission to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment and transform the way we engage with fashion.
Pic credit: The Nettle Dress
FILM SCREENINGS // NETTLE DRESS
Textile artist Allan Brown spends 7 years making a dress by hand, using locally foraged stinging nettles. A modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.
Pic credit: Everyone Needs Pockets
SUSTAINABLE FASHION STREETS
Sustainable Fashion Streets is a partnership project between HIVE Community Business School and Sustainable Fashion Week.
Launched during SFW 2023.
SFW REGIONAL HUBS
We worked in partnership with organisations to host Hubs across the UK, all popping up on the same weekend. Click below to explore what they got up to.
SFW INTERNATIONAL HUBS
WITH THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS…
As a non-profit we are totally reliant on the support of our sponsors, supporters and community partners.
Plaster Creative Communications offer us essential pro bono PR support to get our message OUT THERE.
Yeo Valley Organic is now growing the regenerative organic farming movement in the UK with research, testing and education. Last year, Yeo Valley launched the Yeo Valley Organic Regenerative Farming Project to further support and empower their supplying dairy farmers to be part of the solution for the climate crisis. This project concentrates on measuring soil carbon stocks, improving soil health and increasing soil carbon sequestration over five years. Yeo Valley Organic believe that the solution to our climate crisis is in our soil.
The Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) is an international, non-governmental organisation dedicated to promoting responsible management of the world’s forests. FSC's pioneering certification system, enables businesses and consumers to choose wood, paper and other forest products made with materials that support responsible forestry.
Broadmead BID is a not-for-profit organisation first established in 2005 to support retailers and promote Broadmead, The Galleries and Cabot Circus as one destination - Bristol Shopping Quarter.
Broadmead BID's fourth term ends in October 2023 and next September there will be a renewal ballot for levy payers on its continuation for a further five years, supporting businesses through a period of change as exciting redevelopment projects get underway in the BID area.
Discarded Spirits Co. is a brand with a mission and purpose -- to reverse needless waste and to inspire progress. As a society, we recognise our consumption attitudes need to change in order to radically shift the future outlook of our environment. Which is why our award-winning zero-waste spirits are made from ingredients that would have otherwise been discarded.
Delicious flavours can be created when we reuse creatively, because we believe that waste is simply a failure of the imagination.
Everything we do is influenced by this philosophy: the liquid in our bottles, the bottles themselves and everything we do beyond the bottle!
We continue to discover ‘undiscovered’ flavours, bring ‘redundant’ ingredients back to life, and invent zero-waste techniques that you can implement in your daily lives to ‘reuse creatively’.
At Discarded Spirits Co., we see the beauty in waste, because Waste Tastes Beautiful.
FashionUnited is an independent B2B platform that collects, creates and communicates content relevant to the industry. As fashion's most trusted global network for over 20 years, it connects over one million fashion professionals. Established in over 30 countries and 10 languages, FashionUnited optimises the industry's way of working - making it more efficient and transparent.
Eden Project Communities are working with us to make our Bristol hub POP!
We are so pleased to be supported by the National Lottery ‘Awards for All’ Community Fund.
Lush Charity Pot Funding is awarded to small grassroots organisations as these are best placed to make a real difference!