Circular Coffee Conversation Session 14 - Julia Roebuck Upcycle Fashion
Channel: Circular Coffee Conversation
Date: 2021-04-08

Fourteenth in a series of Circular Coffee + Conversation sessions.
In this session, we chat with Julia Roebuck, founder of Upcycle Fashion, exploring community approaches to fashion in a circular economy.
https://www.upcycle-fashion.co.uk/


​Topics covered and organisations mentioned include:
 - The most sustainable clothing is the one you already own - hanging nin your wardrobe
- The importance of overcoming the barriers to reuse and secondhand (and how simply displaying better can help)
- Tips and tricks to support making your clothes last longer, repairing, upcycling, reusing
- The importance of education and engaging and empowering young people with the awareness and skills around repairing, upcycling, making your own, and choosing secondhand.
- The Centre for Circular Design  - https://www.circulardesign.org.uk/ and Professor Becky Earley work around this http://www.beckyearley.com/
- The CharoCity project exploring the Charity sectors second-hand sales evolving role in communities and impacts of Covid
- One planet Fashion Podcast https://www.instagram.com/oneplanetfashion/
- Joss Whipple and Mend Assembly Totnes https://www.mendassembly.com/
- Types of materials to look for more sustainable clothing companies e.g. Bamboo. hemp, Lyocell alongside ethical labeling fairtrade and new ones emerging, also looking for clothing made in the UK​  
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About Circular Coffee + Conversation

The concept is simple. See it as joining others for a virtual morning coffee (or tea) break and hear us chat to a range of local individuals, organisations, and businesses on their thoughts and connections on the Circular Economy (and also often links to in and around Reading). We'll be asking each guest to bring a "Circular Conversation Starter" - so an object, product, anything really, that connects them to the circular economy at home or in their work. 

We ask a few questions ourselves for about 15min and then open up the questions to the people on the call.

If you cannot join for a reason or another, we'll record this series and send you the link. So if you are interested, don't forget to sign-up.

This is our way to support, create and amplify local initiatives!

A collaboration between:

Sophie Segal - linkedin.com/in/sophie-segal/
​Erica Purvis - TechnicalNature  - https://technicalnature.org.uk/
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​They run the Reading UK branch of the Circular Economy Club global voluntary network

Circular Economy Club Reading https://www.circulareconomyclub.com/