Fashion Business Club

Illustration by Holly Berry

Fashion Business Club isn’t just about networking with people in the fashion industry.  Its members, each with different and ever growing agendas, are constantly evolving the creative industries as well as the social ones- including inspiring young people in the community to get involved with politics through fashion.

FBC board member Daisy de Villeneuve by Barry Lategan

Daisy de Villeneuve, an FBC board member, is on the judging panel for Think Act Vote, a campaign dedicated to motivate people in taking what they believe in and using that in the forthcoming election.  In collaboration with Komodo, an ethical fashion label, Think Act Vote will search for an earth friendly (carbon neutral) campaign t-shirt from contesting up and coming designers, artists, and illustrators.  The only credential? The t-shirt will have to include the slogan: Think Act Vote in order to get the message across to the public. Daisy de Villeneuve says: “Thick Act Vote is a fantastic way to encourage young people to get voting- if you don’t vote then you can’t complain about the result!”

And that’s the truth.  Coming from founder, Amisha Ghadiali: “If politics were a fashion label, you wouldn’t wear it. We want to use creativity to create a community around the choices we make for our future.”Amisha is also an associate director at the Ethical Fashion Forum, of which FBC co-chair Courtney Blackman sits on the board.

The deadline for submissions is 12 noon on Sunday 7th March where the winner will be announced at a launch party in April and then produced by Komodo.  As ethical hero Katherine Hamnett puts it: “Use it before you lose it.”