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Fashion Revolution Week kicks off with days full of talks, lectures, trading markets and lots of ideas exchanged about the fashion industry.
In the year in which the revolution is celebrated in a special way, Fashion Revolution Week brings an edition that aims to reflect on what it means to be revolutionary through what we choose to wear.
Peggada spoke to Daniela Guerreiro, one of the many volunteers who have worked on the project over the years, with one aim: “To show that there is an urgent need to transform the fashion system,” she says.
Daniela has been working with the movement since 2019 and guarantees that there has been a change. “Not only do we have tighter and tighter legislation for the industry – take, for example, the new law limiting greenwashing – but every year we see the events fuller and more and more people interested in finding out more about the fashion industry,” she adds.
The program kicks off this Tuesday, the 16th, with the opening of the exhibition “The Skin We Choose”, which explores clothing beyond its merely utilitarian function and invites visitors to reflect on the crucial value of clothing in the construction of our personal and collective narrative.
The exhibition takes place at the Museu do Traje in Lisbon, as do all the events this week, including the talk “Quanto vale o que me toca”, on April 17 at 5:30 p.m., about the value of what we wear. This is a conversation in two parts – the first dedicated to those who create and the second to those who wear.
On the 24th, at 5.30 p.m., there will be another talk, this time about “The dictatorship of fashion”. “We’re going to talk about the dress code, about those who produce even though they know it won’t sell or about the fact that you buy a piece of clothing not because you really like it, but because something has been instilled in you,” explains Daniela Guerreiro.
On the morning of the 20th there will be a discussion about fashion books and in the afternoon there will be a Barter Market. All you have to do to take part is bring five items of clothing in good condition so that you can exchange them for items that other people will also bring.
All the events take place at the Museu do Traje and you can follow the details of this week on Fashion Revolution Week Portugal’s Instagram.
Marta Cerqueira is from Minho and a vegetarian. Luckily, she lives in Lisbon, where there is more tofu than sarrabulho. She has been a journalist for over 15 years, the last of which writing about food and sustainability. Now, out of the newsroom, she continues to write whenever she can, be it in magazines, journals, post its, or on her Instagram page, which she uses to share a life divided between being a mom-person-foodie-traveler. Still, she created Peggada so she could write about what doesn't fit in a magazine, journal, post it or Instagram: a better world.
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