Environmental concerns are a key challenge for the fashion and textiles sector. How can the sector meet these challenges is key if the UK is to remain globally competitive. . . . → Read More: Make your voice heard: Sustainability in Fashion & Textiles
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 Leave a comment  Creative Skillset, Fashion and Textiles  bespoke, bespoke cutting, climate change, ecological, Fashion, Fashion and Textiles, fashion manufacture, Fashion production, green issues, manufacture, manufacturing, National Occupational Standards, production, standards, sustainability, sustainability legislation, tailoring, Textiles, textiles manufacture To celebrate the training achievements of laundry and dry-cleaning staff this year, we are proud to announce the launch of the Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Achiever of the Year 2010 competition. Skillset are running the competition in collaboration with the Textile Services Association, Laundry Technology Centre and awarding body PAA\VQ-SET. We are looking for managers in England to nominate . . . → Read More: Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Achiever of the Year 2010 competition Despite being the centre of UK fashion design and home to 13,600 fashion and textiles business, it is surprising to hear that London is yet to see an employer take on an Apparel apprentice. So skills of the current workforce can be passed down to a new generation looking to get their foot in the door of . . . → Read More: Our search for London’s first Apparel apprentice Earlier this week a diverse group of designers and other prolific industry experts brought their views on skills issues to NESTA’s headquarters in London for our Design Forum to help inform our fashion design and higher education strategies. Eric Musgrave, Director General of UKFT opened the session, explaining how important this consultation was for informing future activity and . . . → Read More: Fashion designers look at the future of skills at our Design Forum Photographs by Graham Jepson Last week (14th October) Jude Ross, our Fashion and Textiles Nations Manager visited the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London for Scotland Rediscovered, hosted by Scottish Textile Industry Association in partnership with Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Government. Scotland Rediscovered brought the best of Scotland’s fashion and textiles industry to the capital in an exhibition . . . → Read More: Scotland’s fashion and textiles industry takes the spotlight at ‘Scotland Rediscovered’ London Fashion Week is now in full swing and last Thursday (16th September), British Fashion Council started things off in style by launching their report “The Value of the UK Fashion Industry” with an event at the House of Commons. The study, carried out by Oxford Economics, values the UK fashion industry’s contribution to the economy as . . . → Read More: British Fashion Council launches report at House of Commons Fashion and textiles is one of the latest sectors to become a member of the Skillset family, and with this as my first entry – I am initiated as a Skillset blogger! I’ll be updating the blog regularly with news on work in the fashion and textiles sector, opportunities to get involved with our activity and . . . → Read More: Fashion and Textiles joins the Skillset blog |
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