The clothing and fashion industry has its hold, fast and cheap fashion has become the norm and with it is a system often built upon cheap labour and cheaper manmade fabrics in countries on the other side of the world.

To make our wardrobes sustainable, each of us would have to cut how many new clothes we buy by 75%, That’s quite an eye-watering statistic.

We are very lucky to have some great projects here in Dorset working hard to repurpose, recycle and refashion clothing. A celebration of rural makers reclaiming our clothing culture from big industry from DeFashion Dorset and Bridport Fashion Revolution…

DEFASHION DORSET 2025 | hawkersfarm

Bridport Fashion Revolution – Sustainable Bridport

If you have a community Defashion project, please let us know and we will add you. If you would like advice on setting up a community project, or would like to get involved contact Jenny Morrisetti at dorsetcan@gmail.com

Links to National Associations

Sustainable Fashion Week - SFW 2025

Fashion Act Now | Activist group demanding and enabling defashion | London

News Articles

Repurpose the revolution - The BV