fashion

£5 Please book tickets in advance via Eventbrite or pop into the Hwb and buy a ticket. Welcome to Wild About Film! our film club that sparks conversation and inspires action through the power of cinema.

Fashion Reimagined

Director: Becky Hutner 100 min | UK, USA | 2022   Raised off-grid by activist parents, fashion designer Amy Powney has always felt uneasy about the devastating environmental impact of her industry. When she wins the coveted Vogue award for the Best Young Designer of the Year, which comes with a big cash prize, Amy decides to use the money to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment, and transform her entire business. This film follows her painstaking efforts to produce clothes that do no harm, examining every step of long and winding supply chains and uncovering shocking practices and statistics. “A must watch, not just for the fashion industry, but for everyone who wears clothes.” – Jess Cartner-Morley, Associate Editor (Fashion), The Guardian Amy Powney is widely considered a leader in the UK’s sustainable fashion movement. In just 13 years, she went from sweeping the cutting-room floor at fashion brand Mother of Pearl to taking the helm as its Creative Director. Sustainability has been a life-long passion for Amy and she’s been on a mission for Mother of Pearl to reduce its impact on the planet. Her sustainable collections have been shown at London Fashion Week and Copenhagen Fashion Week and are stocked by prestigious global retailers including Net-a-Porter, Harrods, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Goop. She also designs sustainable collections and homeware for John Lewis. She is the winner of the 2017 BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund and writes the “Ask Amy” column in British Vogue. After 20 years at Mother of Pearl, Amy stepped down in 2025 in order to launch a new contemporary womenswear brand: AKYN with the aim of demonstrating that it is possible to create beautiful, desirable clothes with a transparent supply chain, organic, best practice, natural materials; and a socially-responsible ethos.  

Discussion

Join us and our invited speakers  to talk about issues raised by tonight’s film and hear about inspiring [local] projects. Tonight our panel includes Emily James (Carpenter and Cloth); second speaker to be confirmed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb2IKlyETiU  

 

Film: 6.30 pm

Interval: 8.05 pm - order your drinks / food from the cafe as you arrive

Discussion: 8.30 pm

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