The Just Fashion Project is an awareness platform and a fashion workshop with a mission to slow down fashion.
What even is fast fashion?
Fast fashion is a multifaceted industry. Any store/brand/company that has a large volume and a quick turnover is considered fast fashion regardless of the price listed.
For consumers, it’s not about shopping less, shopping better, shopping smarter.
It’s actually not about shopping at all. It’s about questioning the practices we partake in on the daily without realizing their colonialist and exploitative roots.
Just Fashion tackles issues caused by fast fashion including:
Environmental Impact
Labor Exploitation
Stolen
Designs
Through events, Just Fashion will bring awareness to consumers on the negative effects of fast fashion.
Events will consist of two sections:
1) Presentation
- During this section, there will be a discussion on fast fashion. Different events will focus on particular issues to dive into such as labor exploitation.
- The goal here is to have an open dialogue about our shopping habits and what issues we need to be aware of.
2) Workshop
- During this section, there will be activities such as a clothing swap and DIY workrooms which will include moodboards and resources for transforming your clothes.
About the Founder
I’m Bianca!!
I’m a law student pursuing a career in entertainment law.
So why fashion?
While law can be a pretty conservative field, I’ve enjoyed the challenge of not fully compromising my personal style in order to fit into the “traditional lawyer look.”
Creating an outfit for the day, or just for fun, always elevates my mood and allows me to express
myself. I love to sew, thrift, upcycle and learn about fashion history.
Goals
Goals for the Just Fashion Project
- Have guest speakers that are knowledgeable on fast fashion issues
- Do workshops with local small designers and brands
- Expand workshop resources: add sewing machines
Goals for consumers
- Question your shopping habits
- Feel more confident in your personal style
- Learn how to include trends into existing clothes you own
- Become more aware of fast fashion’s issues
Events
* FIRST EVENT IS FREE!
Tickets are sold on a sliding fee scale. See below to find out what that is!
Fees
Tickets are priced based on a sliding fee scale! This allows the cost to be adjusted based on factors like your income.
A big issue with fast fashion is capitalism. Fashion brands take advantage of consumers’ vulnerabilities and turn them into profit.
Walk it like I talk it! As I speak out against this issue, I would feel it’d be unfair to ask everyone to pay the same fee when I know not everyone lives the same lifestyle, has the same income, or simply is going through a rough time.
I also don’t ask questions on why you choose a fee over the other!
Resources
If you want to know more about fast fashion and its effects, here are some good starting points.
Videos:
- The History of Fast Fashion: How did this system take over?
- TikTok is kind of bad for fashion
- The reality of not buying fast fashion
- What Makes Fast Fashion Addictive
Books:
- Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking (Comix Journalism) by Anne Elizabeth Moore.
- Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism by Aja Barber
