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FIXER FAVOURS RE-FASHION

A fashion student from Bournemouth is setting a trend in clothes recycling.

 

Kelly Levell, 20, is concerned that the fast turnover of cheap clothing available in the High Street is wasteful and is exploiting Third World labour.  Her ITV Fixers project is to encourage people to reinvent and revamp what's already in their wardrobe.

With the help of ITV Fixers, Kelly attended a vinspired.com ethical fashion workshop in Bristol, where she learned some of the tricks and techniques employed by designers such as TRAID.  With what she learned, and together with fellow students Jade Ireland (20) and Jenny Forsyth (22), Kelly is building a website to raise awareness of the implications of fast fashion, and giving advice on how to recycle clothing.

"I would like see consumers buying into more sustainable and ethical labels rather than High Street," says Kelly.  "Using our website as a tool people will be able to find out ways to reproduce the clothing they already have rather than just buying into the disposable fast fashion society that's around us today.  

"Ultimately I would love to slow down fast fashion because it's gone too fast and it's gone too far.  Now is the time to make a difference."

Kelly's Fixers project was featured on ITV evening regional news on December 3rd.  Click here to watch the broadcast film.

 

See our online news report here.

For more information about Fashion Favours from v, the youth volunteering charity, click here.