HOW TO GUIDES
Here you will find our series of short and informative ‘how to’ videos and PDF guides that narrate a range of revolutionary fashion skills. From mending holes, to eliminating waste, to using your voice as an activist, these personal stories offer bits of wisdom from everyday citizens and industry experts. Get stuck in!
How to be a Fashion Revolutionary guide
Fashion Revolution and British Council's revisited How to be a Fashion Revolutionary booklet. It’s full of inspiration and ideas about how you can use your voice and your power to transform the fashion industry as we know it. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
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How to be a Fashion Revolutionary film
Norwegian singer-songwriter and positive changemaker Sigrid takes us on a journey to becoming a fashion revolutionary.
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How to write a letter to a brand
Write a letter to a brand and ask #whomademyclothes? Fill in their name, sign yours and share on social media, tagging the brand and @fash_rev. Download and print a pre-written letter or edit a Microsoft Word template.
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How to write a postcard to a your policymaker
Ask your local policymaker what they’re doing to create a fairer, safer, cleaner more transparent fashion industry. Your voice has power, so use it! Download, print and post this postcard to the policymaker in your neighbourhood.
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Video: How to appreciate the story behind things
Stories Behind Things share their origin story and best tips for crafting clothing love stories.
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Video: How To Respect The Journey Your Clothes Have Been On
Join @iamkristabel as she tells us her experience with making her own clothes and how that taught her to respect the journey all clothes have taken.
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Video: How to reduce our waste: Food vs Fashion
Melissa Hemsley, best-selling author, cook and co-founder of Hemsley and Hemsley, shows us how to make carrot soup using less-than-perfect ingredients. How can we learn from food waste when it comes to fashion?
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Video: How to make a pom pom in 2 minutes
Aunt Bet, aged 92, shows us how to make a pom pom in 2 minutes. Pretty impressive!
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Video: How to refresh your wardrobe
If you’ve fallen out of love with a piece of clothing, don’t throw it out, change it up. Stylist Bunmi Abidogun shows us how to refresh our wardrobe without buying new clothes.
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Video: How to tell a fashion love story
Find you someone who looks at you the way @dresslikeamum looks at the dress her grandma made.
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Video: How to sew on a button
In this video writer and artist Wilson Oryema sews on a button for the first time and teaches how it's done.
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Video: How to mend a jumper
In this tutorial, Fashion Revolution's creative director Orsola de Castro shows us how to use crochet to mend a jumper.
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Video: How to do basic darning
Make your #LovedClothesLast by mending them when they have a hole or tear.
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Video: How to write a postcard to your policymaker
Your voice matters, use it! Write a postcard to a policymaker ask them what they're doing to create a fairer, safer, cleaner and more transparent fashion industry.
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