The prize will be worth £200, and the winning garment will be displayed at the Twisted Fashion Fair Trade Fashion Show on the 4th of March in 54 Student Union.

Entrants must be 26 or under and the deadline for the fair trade garment to be completed and given in for judging is the 25th of February.

The aim of Twisted Fashion is to raise the profile of Fair trade clothing and reduce injustice in the fashion industry by promoting Fair Trade fashion to consumers. Could you design an item that looks great and puts across a meaningful message?

To enter drop or post your garment to:

Marjata Doell

Coventry University – International Experience and Mobility Service

The Student Center – Room 107

1 Gulson Road

CV1 2JH

Phone: 024 7615 2067

For updates follow Twisted Fashion on facebook.

The opener will be a short introduction on Fairtrade followed by a presentation from Akoma Cooperative Multipurpose Society/ Ghana talking about the impacts of Fairtrade from a producer perspective.

Hosted by Trish Adudu (BBC Coventry and Warwickshire) the show will feature clothes from Fairtrade companies such as Emma Watson s People Tree collection, Pants to Poverty, Gossypium, Komodo, Exclusive Roots, Made in Coventry, Monkee Genes and FiveG at Debenhams, in a catwalk show, framed by music and dance performances.

Coventry University s fashion design students will also show their Cyrenian s collection of re-worked counterfeit clothing (in conjunction with Trading Standards at Coventry City Council), showcased at last December s Clothes Show at the Birmingham NEC.

Finally the winners of FashionEthics, our Fair Trade themed fashion design competition for young people between the age of 18 and 26 will be presented.

There will also be a few stalls including Pants to Poverty and Exclusive Roots.

Free Entry. All welcome!!!

The event is open to the general public and everyone is welcome to attend.
Start Time: 7:00
Date: 2011-03-04

In the Created ranges you will find beautifully handcrafted home, gift and jewellery items from around the world – there is an even wider range on our website. With many new items and some firm favourites from previous years, there is something for all tastes and styles – and quality and satisfaction are assured with our no-quibble returns policy.

As you make your selections, take pleasure in the knowledge that Created exists to benefit skilled craftspeople from some of the world’s poorest communities. Every order extends the opportunities that come with the dignity of employment, fair wages and the Christian hope of a brighter future.

For more information visit www.createdgifts.org.

If you are looking for great quality, blank Fairtrade t-shirts, hoodies or polo tops for:

charity campaigns, promotions, clubs/societies, music festivals, tour t-shirts, corporate wear, work wear, printing, embroidering, retail, surf brands …

then contact us for whole sale prices, visit www.eponaclothing.com.

After raising two children she returned to studying, gaining a 1^st class Degree in Art & Craft at Coventry University. There, she specialized in jewellery, more challenging than your traditional pieces. Encouraged to explore her experience of anxiety and depression through her work, a collection was created that offered a sense of protection. Other pieces made by Julia gave the wearer electrical shocks and made high-pitched sounds when worn, but as you can imagine, these were not commercially viable. So with a family to support Julia then went into special needs teaching before gaining her present position as Life Long Learning officer at Coventry Transport Museum. With a need to create and subsidise her income, Julia stumbled on a tin of buttons that had been in the family and it brought back a wave of childhood memories.  Believing there must be a way to breathe new life in to these forgotten surplus treasures she began to explore ways to make wearable pieces out of the buttons using wire. Julia now creates a range of unique, colourful, and, most importantly, wearable items including hats, chokers, and brooches under the name ‘hOle’. This is in reference to the part of the button that has been discarded – the button hole. The button must now carve out a life on its own without the support of its other half.

For more information visit www.hole-buttonjewellery.co.uk.

People Tree creates three seasonal collections a year which are available online at www.peopletree.co.uk and through our mail order catalogue. Our designs are also stocked in over 100 shops throughout Europe. There are two People Tree flagship stores in Tokyo.

Since Spring/Summer 2007 People Tree has been collaborating with internationally renowned designers to create stunning capsule collections that marry high design with Fair Trade and sustainability. We have worked with Bora Aksu, Eley Kishimoto, Foundation Addict, Jessica Ogden, Karen Nicol, Richard Nicoll, Sam Ubhi, and Thakoon We also have an ongoing relationship with Topshop, for whom we have created both organic cotton and knitwear ranges.

In September 2009 it was announced that Emma Watson had chosen People Tree to produce her first ever clothing range.

For more information visit www.peopletree.co.uk.

We select the highest quality fairly traded products and offer them to you. We want to offer products that are made and traded in a fair and ethical way. But we also want you to receive great products.

At Exclusive Roots, you really can buy with confidence that we play fair – with the people we buy from and the customers we sell to. Visit our website today to see what we have to offer.