Two surprising venues this year hosted Hastings’ Sustainable Fashion Week. The Unzipped Sewing Café has not long been open, on the Marina at St Leonards. The DEPO you may not even have noticed, housed as it is in a small building tucked into a corner of Queens’ Road roundabout.

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Fashion panel at DEPO, 2A Elphinstone Road

There was vintage clothing and sustainable brand pop-up sales (including MAKU’s sheepskin slippers) and some making and mending workshops. The panel of speakers was: Kelly Dawson (founder of Dawson Denim, a Hastings firm who work with a Japanese company to make long-lived denim clothing which favours ‘the timeless over the trending’), Kirsty McDougall of ReWeave, another Hastings-based company that transforms textile waste into new clothing but on an industrial scale, and Rachel Clowes, of the Sustainable Sequin Company based in Lewes, who uses recycled plastic to make beautiful accessories.

Sustainable Fashion Week in Hastings was 27 September to 5 October. Further details: sustainablefashionweek.uk/hastings


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