Creative Cake Bag: Making Clothes from Recycled Items
The Theme: Our challenge for today's styling photoshoot was 'household items as clothes'. This could include any item that you would usually find in your home, such as a bin bag, tea towels, wrapping paper, washing up gloves or bulldog clips. The
What I Wore to University Today
Styling Challenge: What I wore to university today. My personal style My style has (and probably still will) evolve as a get older, I would describe it as eclectic. I like to mix and match different (sometimes contrasting) styles and adding historical
Green Heart Collective on Tackling Textile Waste
Every year, across the world, we produce around 92 million tonnes of textile waste. This is set to increase to 134 million tonnes by 2030, if people don’t start taking action. The overproduction and overconsumption of clothes are two major factors
A Conversation with Knitwear Designer Ellis David on Bringing Handmade to Fashion Week
Ellis David is a knitwear designer based in Yorkshire and a recent graduate of Sheffield Hallam University. His designs have already been shown at multiple Fashion Weeks including York Fashion Week and the newly-established West Yorkshire Fashion Week. In our
The Story Behind Houghton Le Spring’s New Pre-Loved Clothing Shop
On Saturday October 25, Madame Cheap Chic opened its doors for the first time, after being exclusively online for 6 years. Madame Cheap Chic is an independent shop that sells new and pre-loved goods, with the goal of items being priced
Plus-size Charity Shopping: A Chat with TikTok Star ‘alottameg’
Charity shopping can be a maze. Where to start, what to look for? I sat down with TikToker and ex-charity shop worker @alottameg and chatted all things style, plus size charity shopping and how to get your start with shopping vintage
Sunderland stylist and Business owner incorporates style and sustainablity
JP at the oceanic awards JP, owner and proprietor of Johnathon Pickup Hair in Blandford Street Sunderland, has been cutting hair for decades and began as an apprentice for Tony & Guy. His reason for using these products are that he is
Style Challenge: day and night outfit for less than £30
For a styling session, we were challenged to curate a day and night look for less than £30. In my case, this was like music to my ears as I frequent the charity and vintage shops weekly as well as
PRIDE – Group charity shop Styling Challenge
This was a challenge that we had to do in groups. We went to a charity shop in Sunderland to style a pride outfit and my group was me, Ben and Susan. We styled these 3 mannequins inspired by a
Pride styling challenge
Moodboard For the challenge we went to charity shop and had to style a window mannequin in groups and then make our own looks for less then £20. Theme of the challenge was Pride. Firstly, i did a moodboard which is bright
PRIDE Styling
In Week 8 of MED257, we went on a field trip to different charity shops throughout Sunderland and were tasked with styling a mannequin in a Pride-themed outfit, using only items found in our allocated charity shop. Prior to this,