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Helen Storey

United Kingdom

Biography

Dress For Our Time uses the power of fashion, science and wonder to communicate two of the world’s most pressing and interlinked issues of our time: climate change and refugee crisis. The unique dress has been made from a decommissioned UN refugee tent by Professor Helen Storey (MBE RDI). Helen is an award winning British artist and designer. She is Professor of Fashion and Science at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion and Co-Director of The Helen Storey Foundation.

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“What they [refugees] have got to teach us, I don’t think we can imagine.”

Helen Storey