Join us at The Old Waterworks for a series of events that are part of Pluto Press’ anti-capitalist fashion week which celebrates the release of Tansy E. Hoskins’ text: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion.
You’ll be able to meet the author, take part in reading groups, Q&A’s about the industry, drop-in sewing sessions and customisation and reclamation workshops with local artists.
All events are free to attend but booking is advised. If you can’t make the event, please return your ticket as soon as you can so someone else can attend. Workshops are not suitable for children under 16 years of age.
18 September 2022. 2.30pm - 4.30pm 'Anti-Capitalist Fashion Reading Group with Angela Smith' Booking Link
*THIS EVENT WILL BE BSL INTERPRETED*
This event is part of Pluto Press’ anti-capitalist fashion week which celebrates the release of Tansy E. Hoskins’ text: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion.
Angela Smith will host a reading group that will focus on chapter 8 “Resisting Fashion” from Tansy E. Hoskins forthcoming book ‘The Anticapitalist Book of Fashion’.
Angela trained in fashion as a mature student in the 80’s and has spent the last 40 years variously employed in the industry, but most consistently teaching in various colleges including London College of Fashion, Southend, and Thurrock and for 8 years led an ambitious fashion department within a women’s prison with the aim of rehabilitating inmates into fashion colleges and the trade.
She has worked in design, pattern cutting, illustration, construction and has lots of associated skills including embroidery and surface decoration, knitting, textile manipulation, deconstruction and repurposing.
Fifteen years ago she made a sideways step and took a BA course in Drawing at Camberwell and has since used art as a creative endeavour particularly forming assemblages including carefully considered found objects, incorporating worked textiles and word pursuing the spiritual life of objects.
She has written with increasing seriousness all her life, frequently using poetry and have completed a novel.
Angela embarks on a Masters degree in Fashion Cultures and Histories at London College of Fashion this September.