Update: check out our recap of this event.
If you live in the Bay Area, celebrate Earth Day with a student-run sustainability and arts festival featuring a Sustainable Fashion Show.
Vision Earth is a new festival at hosted at Stanford University bringing together its numerous arts and sustainability groups to spread awareness of environmental concerns through a three-day celebration of inspiration and creative thinking. Running from April 21-23, 2011, the main purpose of the festival is to encourage students and the community to think about environmental problems from multiple, unconventional perspectives. For example, how might an engineer better address sustainability issues from a designer’s perspective?
As part of the festival, the Stanford Sustainable Fashion Collective (SSFC) will be hosting a sustainable fashion show on Earth Day. The SSFC is committed to leading the Stanford community toward making more sustainable choices in apparel. It seeks to raise awareness of the connection between the fashion industry, land use, energy, and climate change through educational campaigns and workshops.
This year, SSFC will showcase eco-friendly and sustainable designs including Feral Childe and Stewart+Brown, and vintage clothing styles provided by Empire Vintage Clothing. It will also feature recycled-paper beaded necklaces from Project Have Hope, a non-profit organization that supports the education of women and children in Uganda.
The Sustainable Fashion Show is free and open to the public at White Memorial Plaza in Stanford, California.
Join them on Earth Day, Friday April 22, 2011, at 5 – 7pm.
For more information, check out their Facebook Event page.
