Label Press and Holly Jade O’Leary present
The Fairy Emporium and The Future of Fashion breakfast panel discussion
Location: sketch, 9 Conduit Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 2XG
Date: 13th September 2018
Time: 9:00am - 11:00am
Price: £45.00
London Fashion Week opens with an intimate, exquisite fine art fantasy and fashion event, with a serious message about social and environmental responsibility. The ticket price includes a unique, limited edition fine art work, The Fairy Castle, by Holly Jade O’Leary created using reclaimed materials for each guest.
Label Press was founded by Jo Boon at St Andrews University to inspire body positivity. £5.00 from each ticket sale will be gifted to Place 2 Be, the UK’s foremost children’s mental health charity, whose royal patron is HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. £5.00 from each ticket sale will be gifted to Place 2 Be, the UK’s foremost children’s mental health charity, whose royal patron is HRH The Duchess of Cambridge.
The Jewelled Moon Theatre Company create living tableaux from french romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns' Les Carnaval Des Animaux, featuring contortion from Monica Ariel opera and musical direction from Kirsten Morrison and Leanne Sanders features as 'The Swan' in a ballet performance choreographed by Christopher Marney at London Central School of Ballet.
The Fairy Emporium features a plant based breakfast menu designed by culinary genius Pierre Gagnaire, accompanied by fine art botanical and fantasy illustrations by Holly Jade O'Leary.
A sustainable fashion installation is lead by Kasey Wynter (Love Island, Britain’s Next Top Model) showcasing designs by Holly Jade O'Leary, Aweless, and Label Press.
Guests are welcomed into The Glade with a vegan gastronomic breakfast selection created especially for the event by French master chef and culinary genius Pierre Gagnaire.The menu includes a Maroon ‘Breakfast Juice’ and Tea or Coffee.Guests may choose from each of the following vegan gourmet dishes:
- Vegetable Chef’s Forest (mushrooms and baby vegetables) with Zezette Bouillon (green sauce with a Paris mushroom base)
- Vegan Pancake with Red Fruit
- Sketch Sweet Wood (mushroom-shaped meringue, seasonal fruit, pistachio sponge cake)
- Avocado Roll with Beans, Tomato & Bell Pepper
Cred Jewellery
Cred Jewellery hold the title Ethical Jeweller of the Year 2018, awarded by the Jewellery Industry Awards. CRED Jewellery have been at the forefront of ethical jewellery since their beginnings as an enterprise project to support the work of the CRED Foundation, a charity campaigning on Education, Poverty and Human Rights issues.
CRED approached Greenwich University’s Natural Resources Institute (NRI) and commissioned independent academic research into the jewellery supply chain. When the NRI published their findings in 2003 their report Towards an Ethical Jewellery Business confirmed academically what CRED already knew anecdotally: the real ethical issue is the plight of the small-scale miner.
In 2003 Cred created a partnership with Colombian mining collective Oro Verde™, and with a transparent source of gold, refining and manufacturing, and launched the world's first independently certified environmentally and socially responsible wedding rings.
Cred is dedicated to the mines they work with, aiding their growth in the market place. In 2005, both CRED and Oro Verde™ were founder members of the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM), and in 2006 CRED brokered introductions between Oro Verde™, ARM and the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation (FLO): another step towards industry-wide change.
The standards of ethical and ecological mining that they set up with Oro Verde became the basis of the Fairtrade gold standard introduced on Valentines Day in 2011. The first certified Fairtrade gold jewellery was worn on the Oscars red carpet by Livia Firth.
With this, mines in Peru & Bolivia received the Fairtrade certification, including the Magdesa mine, who are now our main supplier of Fairtrade gold and silver. With the Fairtrade certification, we know that the small scale miners who mined the gold were fairly treated. The independently accredited system at Fairtrade ensures that the mining community adheres to a strict code of conduct made famous in the farming of Coffee, cocoa, sugar and bananas. It ensures that the mine pays the miners fairly, that there is no child labour and that there is good health and safety in the mine. On top of this the miners are also paid a Fairtrade premium of $2,000 a kilo to be used by the community to help develop the infra structure including schools, health clinics, water and electricity.
Whilst the Fairtrade gold certification was adopted by mines in South America, we were aware of the millions of miners in other areas of the world who did not have access to it. We are now working with Fairtrade in Africa and brought in the first African Fairtrade gold from Uganda, visiting the miners there throughout 2017 and 2018. Cred never do business with any mine until they have visited them ourselves to ensure that our customers receive the best assurance of where their gold is coming from.. Their classical collections feature simple and beautiful designs, many inspired by natural motifs.
Lily Flo Jewellery
Always starting from her ‘Muse’, whether current or historical, Lily Flo’s pieces always embody the balance of strength and sensuality. Her fine jewellery collections are often vintage or classically inspired but always with a fresh contemporary approach. The style is ephemeral and graceful with a romantic femininity while using ethically sourced gold, diamonds, gemstones and pearls.
Fashion accounts for 33% of current factory manufacturing, and is the second largest industrial polluter. 75% of those employed in the global garment industry are women, and 98% do not receive a living wage. To understand how to make change happen, and in seeking a traceable and transparent supply chain we invite those who are shifting the face of the industry to discuss their ideas, from demanding human dignity and justice for workers to encouraging economies of scale within the ethical apparel industry to ensure that sustainable fashion is affordable, and not only accessible to the luxury market. From new and exciting tensiles, such as Pinatex and Singtex, to the timeless sophistication of linen and ancient fibres - and we ask the question, what is The Future of Fashion?
Baroness Lola Young OBE
A member of the House of Lords since 2004, Lola sits as an independent crossbench peer and has been involved in campaigns to criminalise and combat enslavement, human rights and equalities issues, including affecting transformational change in 2015 with her introduction of the Modern Slavery Act into Parliament. As an ambassador for the Ethical Fashion Forum and MADE-BY she uses her political position to promote ethical and sustainable fashion. A former television and theatre actress, Lola is emeritus professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, has sat on the boards of amongst others the South Bank Centre, the Royal National Theatre, and the judging panels for the Orange Prize for Literature, Caine Prize for African Literature, the Art Fund Prize and The Observer Ethical Awards.
Tamsin Lejeune
Tamsin’s passionate belief in the ability of business to transform livelihoods and break the poverty cycle was instilled from an early age growing up in Africa and also working in the shanty towns of Cambodia. This belief catalysed her to launch the sustainable fashion platforms Common Objective (CO), of which she is CEO, and to found the Ethical Fashion Forum and Source. Each platform shares the common theme that entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with ideas, creativity and drive are a powerful force for global change, and the common objective to build smarter businesses that safeguard our global environment. In LinkedIn’s recent list of the ‘UK’s Best Connected Women’ she tops the Fashion and Retail list.
Ulla Vitting-Richards
Ulla grew up just outside one of the largest cities in Denmark, surrounded by fields, forests and the crashing waves of the sea. As well as proudly bearing the title of ‘happiest country in the world’, Denmark is a frontrunner in sustainability. Is it perhaps no surprise, therefore, that her sustainable company, VILDNIS, has strong Scandinavian roots. Ulla's passion for fashion combined with insatiable wanderlust landed her in the fast-moving, forward-thinking fashion hub of London. Through her 16 years in the fashion industry – including as Head of Product for Britain’s leading high-end activewear brand – Ulla has witnessed the numerous strengths of the industry, as well as many of the tired and devastating practices it has cultivated around the world.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fairy-emporium-the-future-of-fashion-tickets-47649766735
Links:
www.label-press.com
www.hollyjadeoleary.com
www.sketch.london
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fairy-emporium-the-future-of-fashion-tickets-47649766735
Links:
www.label-press.com
www.hollyjadeoleary.com
www.sketch.london
