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Syrian refugee tent transformed into dress

Once home to a family of Syrian refugees, a UN tent has found a new life as a dress still bearing the marks and stains of its past. "Dress for Our Time", the brainchild of fashion designer Helen Storey, has turned a discarded tent from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan into a hooded dress featured on stage at the Glastonbury Festival and in the...

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Centre for Sustainable Fashion launches climate change initiative

Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), part of the London College of Fashion, is marking the United Nations Climate Change conference COP21 with the launch of its Dress For Our Time initiative that aims to address climate change. The initiative by Professor Helen Storey will be released in a series of chapters, the first of which is a dress that...