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Fairtrade Fashion Show

Oxford Fairtrade | 09.05.2005 16:16 | Globalisation | Oxford

Fairtrade@ St.Michaels, Artworks for Africa and Oxford University students invite you to a Globally Glamorous Fairtrade Fashion Show at 7.30pm on Saturday 14th May 2005 at St. Aldates Church (opposite Christchurch College).

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Fairtrade@ St.Michaels, Artworks for Africa and Oxford University students invite you to a Globally Glamorous Fairtrade Fashion Show at 7.30pm on Saturday 14th May 2005 at St. Aldates Church (opposite Christchurch College).

Featuring a lively catwalk procession of stylish, fairly traded fashion, world music and dance with band 'Strange Days' performing live and a global marketplace including new fashion collections, jewellery and accessories from three continents with special offers on the night!

Tickets £5/£3.50 concessions from Tickets Oxford, Fairtrade@ St.Michael's and Artworks for Africa.

For more information, contact Mary Ashton on 01865722505 or Jodie Fenn on 07764485541.

Oxford Fairtrade

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All fashion is wrong

10.05.2005 10:47

All fashion is wrong. Just because this involves Fairtrade doesn't change the fact that fashion panders to the sexist, male dominating view of women in society. Fashion encourages women to think they must look "nice" to attract men. Fashion reduces women to items to be admired by men.

Jen


Wife

11.05.2005 11:03

Now if you keep thinking like that Jen you will never find a nice husband. I suggest you go and buy some ribbons to put in your hair and a nice dress.

1950s man


what about men?

11.05.2005 11:09

if you are on about "women being reduced to being objects to be looked at by men", what about men's fashion, doesn't that equally reduce men into being objects to be looked at by women?

No to patrarchy, no to matriarchy.

the middle finger


Not just women...

11.05.2005 11:17

Further to Jen's comments...the fashion industry is pretty screwed anyway, both image and product wise. The whole ethos is pretty much about exploitation from the models (male and female) right down to the producers. So yes, fashion IS wrong. And bad.

Fairtrade is, at least, a temporary stop-gap and at least you're aware that the producers are getting a decent wage for their product. Also that most of it *hopefully* is not sewn by small children in China (wave a cheery 'Hello' Gap, Disney et al).

Until we bring down global capitalism it is great IMHO that fluffy events like the ones Oxford Fairtrade arrange positively raise awareness. Moreover they are promoting the fact that there ARE alternatives to the big fashion industries' "wear our clothes and look the same" diktat :)

Failing that, getting stuff second hand is the other answer which closes the loop on demands for constant, energy intensive production/consumption.

Not a model, nor a size 10 x

Dasiy