In this end of 2023 episode, I’m talking to Amy Twigger Holroyd, who is Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham School of Art & Design, and in her previous life was a knitwear designer and innovator. We go back quite a long way to my early days as a designer maker and the retail markets world that we both used to work in. What connected us in those early days was a belief in the need for textiles practices to be sustainable and for making to be recognised as a vital life skill. We could both talk about these for ever, but we tried to keep it short and focus on Amy’s project Fashion Fictions and where our fascinations and ways of working and sharing cross over.
I am Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham School of Art & Design.
Through design-led participatory research, I explore plural possibilities for post-growth fashion systems: alternative ways of living with our clothes that meet our fundamental human needs and respect ecological limits.
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Find Amy’s work
University profile :: Nottingham Trent University
Fashion Fictions :: https://fashionfictions.org
Personal website :: https://amytwiggerholroyd.com
Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/amytwiggerh/
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