Selby Champions Sustainable Fashion: Joining a National Movement
For anyone with a passion for sustainable fashion, you are in luck! September is the month of Sustainable Fashion Week, a national movement dedicated to showcasing sustainable fashion and highlighting the role of collective action in the fight against the climate crisis. Sustainable Fashion Week runs from 27th September - 5th October, and there are events happening up and down the country that anybody can get involved with.
This year’s theme is ‘Fashion, Reclaimed’, exploring ways of regaining control against a fashion industry and a throwaway culture that can often feel like a runaway train. Reclaiming control of your style, skills, colours, visible and invisible repair, and your connections to your clothing and your community are all encouraged by this year’s theme. See the full programme and you can submit your own sustainable fashion event.
Su Morgan from Tadcrafters CIC delivering our Sustainable Fashion Zero Hero talk
At Our Zero Selby, we love sustainable fashion- and so do Selby’s residents! Our repair cafés, upcycling event, and sustainable fashion Zero Hero talk were successes and we had some inspiring and eye-opening conversations about what people in our area are already doing to embrace sustainable fashion as part of their own lives. Selby is already upcycling, mending, and sourcing new items second-hand- or not sourcing new items at all! All of these are such wonderful and important ways in which we can take part in the sustainable fashion revolution and encourage slow fashion over fast fashion.
There are so many opportunities to engage in sustainable fashion, especially with our second-hand shops run by charities. They all give preloved clothes, accessories and shoes a second lease of life and the chance to be altered or upcycled into something new, and they are really accessible. You can find out more about our project with the second-hand shops on our Shop For the Future page.
If you are taking part in Sustainable Fashion Week and Charity Shop Fashion Week 2025, please let us know! We’d love to share your work in our newsletter, on our Facebook and on our Instagram. You can provide inspiration to other people and keep sharing Selby’s love of sustainable fashion.