The Fashion District Festival

The Fashion District festival 2023

Panel talk with Lydia Bolton, Helen Kirkum, Patrick McDowell and Ester Knight exploring upcycling and luxury fashion. They discussed challenges of starting an upcycling focused fashion brand, how we started our brands, diversification and the power of social media.

Lydia hosted an upcycling workshop giving her signature ‘couching tutorial’. This is a decorative embroidery using scraps of fabric and is a great technique to uplift and breath new life into an old item of clothing.