{"id":9222,"date":"2025-09-29T12:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffp.jp\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:17:57","slug":"lecture-7%ef%bc%9a%e3%80%8c%e8%a1%a3%e9%a1%9e%e5%bb%83%e6%a3%84%e3%81%ae%e7%8f%be%e5%a0%b4%e3%81%8b%e3%82%89%e6%9c%8d%e3%81%a5%e3%81%8f%e3%82%8a%e3%82%92%e8%80%83%e3%81%88%e3%82%8b%e3%80%8d%e3%82%92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffp.jp\/en\/news-en\/lecture-7%ef%bc%9a%e3%80%8c%e8%a1%a3%e9%a1%9e%e5%bb%83%e6%a3%84%e3%81%ae%e7%8f%be%e5%a0%b4%e3%81%8b%e3%82%89%e6%9c%8d%e3%81%a5%e3%81%8f%e3%82%8a%e3%82%92%e8%80%83%e3%81%88%e3%82%8b%e3%80%8d%e3%82%92\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 7: Considering Clothing Production from the Clothing Disposal Site"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1748320180643{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][wr_vc_titles text_align=”text-left” title_style=”headline-m” padding_top=”padding-top-30″ padding_bottom=”padding-bottom-30″][wr_vc_title title=”Lecture 7: Considering Clothing Production from the Clothing Disposal Site”][\/wr_vc_titles][vc_column_text]Lecture 7 was held, and we would like to introduce a part of the lecture and what the semifinalists learned\/new perspectives they noticed.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_padding_top=”no-padding-top” css=”.vc_custom_1758847393662{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 300px !important;padding-bottom: 300px !important;}”][vc_column]
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Lecturer \/ Theme<\/h4>\n

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Lecturer: Ann McCreath (Fashion Designer)
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Profile<\/h4>\n

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Ann McCreath is a multi-faceted fashion designer and entrepreneur. Born in Scotland, she trained in Alta Moda in Rome and worked in fashion in Milan and Barcelona before setting up KikoRomeo in Kenya in 1996. The brand is a pioneer in sustainable fashion, fostering development of craft skills and leveraging higher wages through cutting-edge products. Developing a flexible production model in Kenya, from grassroot rural artisan to the KikoRomeo sampling workshop and garment factories, she was able to manufacture a wide range of standardised products with a unique crafted element. In 2020 her daughter Iona took up the role of Creative Director and Ann increased her teaching work, designing an Africa-relevant sustainable fashion curriculum, based on her lived fashion experiences across the continent. She now mentors many of Africa\u2019s fashion talents and nurtures peer mentoring groups of past alumni.<\/p>\n

Ann is passionate about using fashion for positive change, manifested by her founding FAFA in 2008 and its multi-creatives Fashion for Peace shows. These have brought estranged communities together, opening difficult political conversations around a beautiful dress! An expert in low-tech, she has designed & implemented training of artisans and women\u2019s groups for UNHCR, IOM, ITC, and UNWomen.<\/p>\n

Articles\/Media\/Citations:
\nNew African Woman\u2019s Ultimate Power Players of African Fashion (2015), Arise Top 100 Women Influencing Africa (2012), Fashion Africa (Jacqueline Shaw 2014), New African Fashion (Helen Jennings 2011), Fashion Cities Africa (Hannah Azieb Pool 2016) and Business of Fashion. Her articles have been published severally in The East African Standard<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_padding_top=”no-padding-top” css=”.vc_custom_1758847409445{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 300px !important;padding-bottom: 300px !important;}”][vc_column]

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Lecture Outline<\/h4>\n

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Ms. McCreath, speaking from her base in Kenya, addressed the massive influx of secondhand clothing into Africa and its consequences. She explained how garments brought in through donations and charity are often discarded or end up undermining local industries, with declining quality and growing mountains of waste becoming urgent problems.
\nShe noted that while countries like Rwanda and Burkina Faso have moved toward import restrictions and the development of domestic industries, many others remain dependent due to a lack of political will or vision. The lecture also highlighted the realities of secondhand markets such as Gikomba, as well as emerging brands where designers repurpose discarded clothing. Against the backdrop of structural issues rooted in the colonial era, Ms. McCreath emphasized the need to balance fashion\u2019s sense of joy with its social responsibility.<\/span><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_padding_top=”no-padding-top” css=”.vc_custom_1758847481214{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column]

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Key Points Learned<\/h4>\n

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Some of the key points that were learned by the semi-finalists and last year’s winners who attended the course are listed below.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI feel like the realisation of colonialism still shapes the reality of Africa, stuck with me for the whole lecture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201dI was impressed by the attitude of turning a negative legacy into a positive aesthetic, as seen in Mabatini\u2019s work combining patchworked second-hand clothing with traditional textiles, and NKWO\u2019s knitting using fibers from lower-grade second-hand denim.”<\/p>\n

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\u201cI realized that what\u2019s often presented as charity or help can actually harm local industries and make it really hard for designers to access good quality materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI strongly felt that in my future creative work, I want to approach clothing not merely as a \u201cconsumable,\u201d but as something that embodies culture and generates relationships, creating works that can serve as a starting point for rethinking values and actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI also came to understand once again that politics influences creation (industry). It struck me as interesting that politics can also nurture culture, and it motivated me to start studying Japanese politics as a first step.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Through this lecture, participants shared that they were struck by the realization that the massive influx of second-hand clothing into Africa affects not only the environment but also local industries, culture, and even political structures. They noted how what is often framed as charitable donation or trade policy in fact conceals structures reminiscent of colonial legacies, directly tied to our own patterns of consumption.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, there was a strong sense of hope in the creativity of local designers who reinterpret second-hand garments and traditional textiles, transforming them into new forms of value.<\/p>\n

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The lecture became a moment to reaffirm that fashion goes far beyond the making of clothes\u2014it is a cultural and social force that can build community, restore dignity, and envision the future.<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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