REdesign Clothing Supply chains, challenges and solutions

Join the EMRC, in collaboration with the Circular Textile Working Group WA, for the second event in the REthink REdesign REstyle series.

REdesign delves into the challenges and innovative solutions in sustainable fashion design and production. This event will brings together leading Australian designers to discuss waste reduction, transparency, and the future of circular fashion. Expect expert presentations, engaging panel discussions, and networking opportunities with industry leaders such as Courtney Holm, Stephanie Devine, and more.

This event is made possible by Meshpoints, an initiative supported by Lotterywest and Spacecubed, which exists to build a stronger culture of entrepreneurship and innovation in WA.

Special thanks to the City of Fremantle for their generous support.

Facilitator:

Lisa Piller Circular Textile Working Group WA
Lisa Piller is a researcher, academic and advocate for systemic change to the fashion supply chain. Back from an international Fellowship examining global solutions to issues of textile waste, Lisa will facilitate this session with local and national Australian designers and their individual journeys of environmental and ethical sustainability.  Panel discussions will explore the challenges, barriers and solutions to designing for circularity and product stewardship.

Guest Speakers:

Courtney Holm Circular Sourcing Australia (Melbourne) 
A circular fashion systems designer thought leader and entrepreneur, Courtney founded experimental circular fashion label A.BCH in 2017 and built it into a world leading example of what circular fashion could be. In early 2024, she made a strategic decision to step away from making new clothes in order to build her startup Circular Sourcing and transition A.BCH into a circular design advisory firm (A.BCH World), supporting the Australian fashion and textile industry as it transitions to working with more surplus or recycled materials and less virgin materials.

Stephanie Devine CEO & Founder The Very Good Bra (NSW)
Stephanie Devine launched the world’s first plastic-free bra in 34 sizes via Kickstarter in 2018. From a corporate background, Stephanie became obsessed with creating non-wired bras made with natural fibres following a breast cancer diagnosis in 2006. Learning more about the enormous environmental impact of textiles caused her to stop and pivot in 2016 towards bras that were 100% botanically circular. Very Good Bras have been devoured in 8 weeks in a worm farm and since 2022 Stephanie has been driving a world-first Australian Standard for Textile Composting, with the industry, academics and scientists. A Technical Specification is due to be released in March 25.

Gaelle Beech The Anjelms Project (Fremantle) 
Ethical and sustainable fashion brand that celebrates traditional techniques such as hand-looming, block-printing and hand-stitching, and empowers the makers of our clothes to earn a fair wage from their work.

Claire O’Loughlin Founder Ocean Remedy (Fremantle)
Claire’s swimwear label integrates advocacy with design, placing sustainability and ethical manufacturing at its core. She highlights the impact of ocean microplastics through direct action, research, and community education.

Leuca Jane Ziemons  
An interdisciplinary artist, slow fashion designer and freelance educator. Leuca's primary research focus centres upon present moment awareness and the quotidian moment. She is currently further developing the scope of her Mindfulness Based Phenomenological Studies with the intention of engendering a contemplative experience of cloth and clothing. In 2018 Leuca founded the Slow Fashion Project - Melaleuca Rise which has provided her with an ever-evolving home for artisanal creativity where making, mending, and textile transformation are celebrated.