24 Feb Reduce Your Carbon Film Project With Collage Arts and Park View School

On the 21st February we had students from Park View secondary school in Tottenham visit Fashion-Enter Ltd’s factory in Haringey to ask questions and make a film about local businesses that are making an effort to reduce their carbon emissions.

The session was organised by Collage Arts and was a part of the Reduce Your Carbon film project. Fashion-Enter Ltd’s CEO Jenny Holloway explained the garment manufacturing process to the group along with sustainability and new technologies such as Optitex and Kornit Digital to enable a leaner and cleaner process for making clothes.

Jenny took the group to each work station on the factory floor and answered the students questions on the FEL’s working practices and goals to reduce carbon emissions. She also explained how the company instills sustainable practices with its learners and designers at the Fashion Technology Academy and FC Designer Workspace in Islington.

This session was filmed for the project and will be available to view in the coming months.

Andry, Youth and Community Programme Manager from Collage Arts responded after the session: “I wanted to get in touch to say thank-you so much for your and your colleague’s time on Tuesday for the visit by Park View. Their teacher Rachael has been in touch to say that the students (and staff!) absolutely loved the visit.”

Students from the session said: “I learnt how to make clothes sustainable, how long it takes, the way to make patterns and designs, the process for making clothes. It was good!”

“I learnt about how much waste is truly produced in the process of creating, shipping and selling clothes. It is very cool to visit place like this to learn more true information.”

Steve from Collage Arts added: “I learnt about the complexities of the work that goes into a single garment. Very interesting to look into the future of fashion.”