Fibre-yarn-textile pacts needed in post-covid clothing industry
27/04/2020
The Paris-based designer, teacher, forecaster and commentator published an anti-fashion manifesto five years ago, in which she argued that the system that had come to dominate the clothing and fashion industries was “obsolete”. She argued that this was because of changes that have taken place in many aspects of the way clothing collections come together now, including design, education, marketing, presentation, advertising, shopping and consumption.
Now she has recorded some up-to-date thoughts on what might emerge from the covid-19 crisis in what she has called a new ‘Hope Manifesto’, arguing that designers and companies must not miss this chance of a “sweeping restructuring”.
In her view, this will see more countries insisting on manufacturing products domestically and outsourcing becoming “less excessive”. She said she wanted people across the industry to join her in setting up the World Hope Forum “to counterbalance the World Economic Forum”.
Part of the World Hope Forum’s vision will be what she called “new pacts between fibre farmers, yarn makers, textile industries and fashion houses, between raw material producers, independent designers and their craftspeople”.
She argued that governments should help fund these changes so that entire value chains can become integrated and income shared in a “rebirth in business”.
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