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Crafts

Illustrated by @istelaillustrated © Illustrated by @istelaillustrated

Preserving Crafts

Learning from Dhaka: In a German-Bangladeshi exchange program, young designers are rethinking crafts – as an arena for cultural and social sustainability

Broqué – the first bespoke circular fashion brand in Bangladesh, showcasing second-hand vintage jacket collection for winter 2020 © Mahenaz Chowdhury © Mahenaz Chowdhury

Bangladesh - The quiet frontrunner of circular fashion

Although eco-friendly, ethical, and sustainable fashion has only been a recent awakening for the global fashion industry, Bangladesh has been a quiet champion practicing it in silence for multiple generations. 

Local International 2020 | The Two Ends of the Supply Chain. Photo (detail): Istelaillustrated I Goethe-Institut Bangladesh

Local International 2020
 The Two Ends of the Supply Chain

Fashion without exploitation: The fourth exchange project by Local International for students of fashion design in Germany and Bangladesh was dedicated to sustainability along supply chains. The students now present their results and responses in an online exhibition.

Rethinking Fashion © IstelaIllustrated I Goethe-Institut Bangladesch

Rethinking Fashion

Rethinking fashion: a German-Bangladeshi exchange programme is in search of solutions for a sustainable textile industry

The vales of resistance in the feminine © Humayra Kabir হুমায়রা কবির

The vales of resistance in the feminine

If all resistance, enunciated in signifiers — isms/counter-isms—is a poetics of un/becoming, what then is a feminist poetics of resistance?

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