Flip Fashion Forever

Calling all school-aged Viv Westwoods, Alexander McQueens and even Coco Chanels!!

You may already know the fashion industry under-pays its workers and over-produces clothes derived from fossil-fuels. You've probably seen the mountains of clothes dumped where children are meant to play on the shores of Africa.

But did you know that you belong to the generation that could turn all this horror around? That your generation might even see the revival of Australia's disappearing textile industry AND bring sewing back into the home?

The first of its kind, Flip Fashion Forever is a pilot school holiday program of 'thrift-flipping', Gen Z's version of 'renovating' old clothes that consistently goes viral on socials.

The best thing about re-working existing garments? Not only does it save them from landfill but it allows neuro diverse students an alternative view of clothes construction, so we can learn how they're made without complex patterns and strict instructions. 

For this four-day program, participants will be their own creative directors, sourcing their own project starters from a huge secondhand warehouse and sharing their personal visions with skilled mentors before they are guided through the seam-rips and sewing that will bring their visions to life.

Included:
- mentorship from a team of socially responsible young fashion talents, some of whom have had work featured in Vogue and at Australian Fashion Week
- exclusive access to secondhand clothes warehouse Re Place
- $20 worth of Thrift Vouchers to be spent at Re Place (prices range from $5 to $10 per item)
- bundle of fabric 'cuttings' collated by Re Place
- full access to the Green Living Centre's purpose-built studio equipped with circularly sourced sewing machines and supplies
- inclusive, creative space for youth to explore fashion in a non-judgmental environment 
- participants can take unfinished projects home along with any supplies needed (within reason)

ABOUT
Our events bring Gen Z and Gen Alpha together for the sake of fashion's future. Without the so-called 'generation chasm', Zed's creativity, innovation and social responsibility are more likely to inspire Alphas to ditch the small screens and use their hands during that pivotal transition between play/crafts and clothes shopping, through which many express their evolving sense of self while unintentionally boarding the treadmill of hyper consumption.

Benefits:
- Saves unsellable clothes from landfill
- Teaches the fundamentals of circular fashion, a system of textiles manufacturing proposed by the Australian Fashion Council's Seamless initiative
- Bridges the creative gap between craft kits and digital fashion, guiding tweens towards hands-on creativity instead of screens and mindless consumption
- Designed to reverse the effects of fast fashion so that clothes making is better understood and valued as the next gen enters the market, causing them to question the ethics of too-cheap and disposable garments
- Empowers an unrepresented portion of school children without an existing creative outlet/or whose creative needs are not met by traditional crafts and visual or dramatic arts
- Paves the way for a revival of our local textiles industry as well as domestic needlework crafts and skills
- Redefines the mainstream meaning of 'fashion' - from noun (suggests exclusivity and judgement) to verb (creativity, expression)
- A new way of learning to sew that appeals to the neuro-diverse, devoid of paper patterns and long-form instructions

This event is run by Slogue in collaboration with Re Place and the Inner West Sustainability Hub. 

All profits after hosts have been paid will be transferred to the Go Fund Me page of Stanmore mum-of-two Caitlin Delaney. A much-loved Inner Westie who has tirelessly advocated for Rare Cancer patients but who now needs our help to pay for urgent cancer treatment.