NATIONAL: Could Rosemount Australian Fashion Week (RAFW) be turning green?
Eco-friendly fashion designer Rachel Bending has urged organisers to revisit plans to launch a sustainable group show at the trade event. The Bird Textiles designer first met with IMG Fashion Asia Pacific at the close of 2007 in a bid to get the program off the ground.
"In discussions at their offices, I encouraged RAFW to go ahead with the showcase and offered my services to help enable them to do so," she said. "They tentively asked me if I would be involved as a media spokesperson for any such show and I agreed."
Emails obtained by Ragtrader Magazine revealed Bending had discussed plans for an eco-showcase with organisers in late November 2007.
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