Asian Fashion Students Learn about Ethical Clothing
Asia Fashion Students to Learn about Ethical Clothing A Nottingham Trent University entrepreneur and founder of Regenerate Clothing is heading to Asia to teach students about ethical fashion. May Cortazzi, who will move to Vietnam for six months in February, has also been approached by other Asian universities interested in her teaching programme.
Cortazzi founded ethical clothing brand Regenerate in 2008 with support from Nottingham Trent University’s enterprise centre. She also lectures part-time on the school’s fashion courses.
In Vietnam, she will be teaching a range of fashion studies and courses, which will include street wear, entrepreneurship, fashion styling and illustration. She will also be looking to introduce students to ethical fashion and fair trade.
Since accepting the role, Cortazzi has been approached by other Asian universities in Cambodia, Indonesia and Hong Kong, who are also interested in her Regenerate Education programme of workshops and tutorials.
Cortazzi said: “I’m really excited about this opportunity and getting involved with projects such as The British Council’s Creative Cities programme with all the creative entrepreneurs over there. Being in Asia will allow me to fulfil my ambition of developing the Regenerate Clothing line further by introducing a new fair trade range, whilst following my passion for teaching.
“I’m also looking forward to pushing Regenerate Clothing to new markets in the world, such as places like Australia which have a demand for well-designed, ethically aware, British fashion labels.”
Hi, we are 2 French people working on an ethical fashion business in Chiangmai in Northern Thailand. We design our cloths and use fabrics from Northern Thailand, such as Natural Dye Cotton (chemical-free), Thai Silk and Erisilk. You can visit our website. For this project, we have met organizations working on fair trade projects but they are not really aware of ethical fashion. By fashion, I mean a design that would fit western style clothing and then may interest western customers. There is so much to do to explain what western design means and it is not efficient to do that directly with the people in the villages. I hope giving lectures about ethical fashion will help. First, the lectures target specific students that want to help their country. Second, these students will work more efficiently with the villagers than foreigners usually do. I wish to attend one day a lecture on Ethical Fashion here at Chiangmai University.