Fane Productions | Will Fast Fashion Destroy the Planet? | Aja Barber & Gina Martin (FULL EVENT) @faneproductions | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 16 hours ago.
Aja Barber wants change. The writer, stylist and fashion consultant is asking us to change our consumer identity in order to be a part of a more equitable and sustainable future. Join her to celebrate the release of her vital new book Consumed: on colonialism, climate change, consumerism & the need for collective change, as she explores the exploitation and injustice of the fashion industry and the cynical manipulation of consumer culture.
In conversation with activist and author Gina Martin, Aja teaches us how to be a citizen, not a consumer. Exploring the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the textile industry, Aja exposes how these oppressive systems have bled into the fashion industry and its lack of diversity and equality. She also reveals how we spend our money and whose pockets it goes into and whose it doesn't (clue: the people who do the actual work) and will tell her story of how she came to learn the truth.
But Aja also empowers us to challenge this power disparity, making us question why we consume the way we do, helping us to understand why we fill the void with consumption rather than compassion, and giving us the tools to take back ownership.
Thought-provoking and eye-opening, this event is a clarion call for fundamental change in how we live our lives.
00:00 Introduction
1:03 The core of Aja's book
10:08 The complications of donating fast fashion clothing
19:39 Fast fashion and the climate crisis
38:08 Making activism personal
Aja Barber In Conversation with Gina Martin was originally broadcast on Wed 22 Sep 2021.
To discover more Fane events, visit: fane.co.uk/whats-on
#AjaBarber #Fashion #FastFashion #ClimateChange #Consumer #Interview
Aja Barber wants change. The writer, stylist and fashion consultant is asking us to change our consumer identity in order to be a part of a more equitable and sustainable future. Join her to celebrate the release of her vital new book Consumed: on colonialism, climate change, consumerism & the need for collective change, as she explores the exploitation and injustice of the fashion industry and the cynical manipulation of consumer culture.
In conversation with activist and author Gina Martin, Aja teaches us how to be a citizen, not a consumer. Exploring the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the textile industry, Aja exposes how these oppressive systems have bled into the fashion industry and its lack of diversity and equality. She also reveals how we spend our money and whose pockets it goes into and whose it doesn't (clue: the people who do the actual work) and will tell her story of how she came to learn the truth.
But Aja also empowers us to challenge this power disparity, making us question why we consume the way we do, helping us to understand why we fill the void with consumption rather than compassion, and giving us the tools to take back ownership.
Thought-provoking and eye-opening, this event is a clarion call for fundamental change in how we live our lives.
00:00 Introduction
1:03 The core of Aja's book
10:08 The complications of donating fast fashion clothing
19:39 Fast fashion and the climate crisis
38:08 Making activism personal
Aja Barber In Conversation with Gina Martin was originally broadcast on Wed 22 Sep 2021.
To discover more Fane events, visit: fane.co.uk/whats-on
#AjaBarber #Fashion #FastFashion #ClimateChange #Consumer #Interview
