Fighting Fast Fashion

About the Team
For this third edition of the Fighting Fast Fashion Challenge Team, we will be bringing two clothes swap events and one up-cycling workshop. Thanks to our partners at Sustainability Fortnight and the Union Ethics and Environment Network (shoutout to Evie!), the first clothes swap event will take place on February 26th, right in the middle of a great two weeks of climate cafes, lab sustainability workshops and panel discussions! The second-hand clothing charity Traid, has continued to offer their support this year to facilitate the collection of clothes for the swap event. No reason to panic if you’ve missed this first swap as we will also be hosting another one later on in June. In both of these events you can either bring in clothes to swap, or purchase pre-loved clothing for just £1. The much anticipated repair & upcycling workshop will also be held in Spring, keep an eye on the university’s and student union’s social media accounts or subscribe to the Grantham Institute’s newsletter for the specific date, time & location!

Clothes Swap

This year, the triple F team (Fighting Fast Fashion) will bring you TWO clothes swap events!

The first one will be in the middle of Imperial’s Sustainability Fortnight fair, on Monday the 26th of February and the second one will come later on in the spring term to celebrate the longer and warmer summer days.

Prior to both swaps we will be setting up donation bins around campus for you to get rid of unwanted clothes & will circulate a map of the bins. These bins will be fitted with QR codes through which you should log your donations to accumulate credit to be used on the day of the swap. Alternatively, you can also bring your clothes to the event for you to swap/donate. If you have nothing to donate but would still love to take some pre-loved items back home, we will also be offering the chance to buy credit to use during the swap events. NOTE, you can accumulate credit from one event to the next! If you don’t spend it all in February, come back to the spring term event and cash it in.

All leftover stock & profits will be donated to Traid.

Repair & Upcycling Workshop 

At this year’s repair & upcycling workshop you will have the opportunity to learn and practice several stitching and mending techniques and will also learn about some of the key challenges for sustainability in the fashion industry. 

We would like to thank all our collaborators for their support, and everyone for attending our past events and looking forward to this year's!

Team Members

Catalina Cruañas Pániker (Cohort 10)
Eirini Sampson (Cohort 10)
Emily Archibald (Cohort 9)
James Evans (Cohort 10)
Jonah McLeod (Cohort 9)
Louise Guillaume Cohort (Cohort 9)
Muyao Qi Cohort (Cohort 8)
Sophie Mosselmans (Cohort 10)
Theo Brook (Cohort 9)