On Tuesday 9 November 2010 the AMFI – Amsterdam Fashion Institute is holding an international symposium entitled Beyond Green, The System of Fashion, in the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam. The aim of the symposium is to provide information to students and teaching staff in higher education on new developments in sustainability and fashion.

Date: 9 November 2010
Programme: 10.30 am to 4.30 pm
Language: English
Location: World Fashion Centre
Address: Koningin Wilhelminaplein 13, Amsterdam
Entrance: 100 euro
The symposium is free for students and teachers of Fashion and Design Schools.
Registration & information: m.m.van.de.beek@hva.nl

All text and logo from Beyond Green, Photography by Adrian Woods and Gidi van Maarseveen.

Beyond Green Symposium: The System of Fashion

The System of Fashion is the central theme of Beyond Green this year. The creation of a garment is a complex process: an endlessly long chain of processes which are often unethical, inefficient or cause pollution. It is therefore important to get more insight into the complexity of the manufacturing process, so that we can identify opportunities to produce in a more sustainable way. If the fashion industry wants the manufacturing process to be more sustainable, it is important to offer fashion students the knowledge they need to make it so. The students of today are the decision makers of tomorrow.

Beyond Green Gallery: Station Blue

The sub-theme of this year’s programme is Jeans; one of world’s most popular garments but also made from one of world’s most environmentally unfriendly fabrics: cotton. Some of the speakers will address the subject of Jeans. The Beyond Gallery is also organized around Jeans and is called Station Blue. The gallery includes presentations on innovative projects by young designers and grass-roots organisations, and exhibition stands manned by numerous companies connected with fashion, textiles and sustainability.
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Free Fashion Challenge

At the Beyond Green symposium the Free Fashion Challenge starts: 15 fashion addicts from all over the world will stop buying clothes for one year. Free Fashion is a graduation project of Laura de Jong in collaboration with AMFI. With this challenge the meaning of consumption within the definition of fashion is being explored. Fashion students from the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Israel, England and the United States take up this challenge and so do Nannet van der Kleijn (creative director AMFI), Frank Jurgen Wijlens (lecturer visual culture and communication AMFI) and Anneloes van Gaalen (Paperdoll writing). See how these fashion addicts go cold turkey on www.freefashionchallenge.com