The Considered Fashion Award

Submission
Open to all courses listed under your GFF membership, this award recognises work that celebrates sustainable, ethically aware, socially responsible products or projects. Submissions must demonstrate a strong narrative that focuses on environmental impact and communicates sustainable and ethical practices. The presentation of your work must actively encourage and promote the benefits of ethical and environmental awareness.
   
The award recognizes a student’s outstanding contribution to a range of ethical or societal issues relating to Fashion:                
• Diversity and inclusion, including adaptive design for disabilities
• The health and well-being of the wearer and the maker
• Environmental impact through sustainable materials, production and end-of-life
• Ethics of garment manufacturing along the entire supply chain and subsequent solutions to these issues

     
Criteria

• The submission must clearly demonstrate how the project/product is lowering its environmental impact,
     and/or be beneficial to the environment, culture or community from which the materials are sourced.

• A clear understanding of ethical practices must be prominent throughout the development, production
     and presentation.
  
  The supporting statement should explain the nominated graduate’s entry from concept to realisation including images demonstrating that it meets all the criteria as detailed above.
                           
  An initial digital submission of no more than 15 x pages for the nomination shortlisting. The full physical body of work and/or garments will be displayed for the final judging session.
                           
  The nomination can be a maximum of 10mb, illustrating the final project and a supporting statement.