Programme Leader - BA(Hons) Fashion Product and Promotion @sunderlanduni • Senior Fashion Lecturer • PhD Candidate • Founder of @runknownartist • 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰 🐺

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#PrayForTurkey 🇹🇷 #TurkeyEarthquake Artwork: Greek Cartoonist Ilias Makris for @Kathimerini_gr #IliasMakris
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Günaydın? ☀️// Good morning? ☀️ “Bazı yüzler çığlık atmaz ama sonsuza dek yankılanır.” — Gottfried Helnwein Masumların Fısıltısı II 2009 “Some faces do not scream, yet they echo forever.” — Gottfried Helnwein The Murmur of the Innocents II 2009 #GottfriedHelnwein #Painting #Hyperrealism
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“Vegan leather” is not automatically sustainable. Many alternatives still rely on PU/PVC plastics, raising concerns around durability, recyclability, and fossil-fuel dependency. The future lies not in labels, but in transparent material innovation, lifecycle thinking, and truly circular design systems. Reading 🔗 on @FJmagazine fashionjournal.com.au/fashio… #SustainableFashion #VeganLeather #CircularEconomy #TextileInnovation #FashionIndustry #EcoDesign #Sustainability
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Yonghao Xie rethinks fashion through softness, precision, and quiet rebellion. Fluid tailoring, muted colour, silhouettes in motion. Strength without hardness. #YonghaoXie More: randomunknownartist.com #RandomUnknownArtist
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Markos Kay turns science into wonder. aBiogenesis imagines life before language, before memory, before form. Where origins become art. #MarkosKay More: randomunknownartist.com #randomunknownartist
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BBC Future reports that household dust and #synthetic #fibres may be a major source of indoor microplastic exposure. Better ventilation, damp dusting, HEPA vacuuming, and reducing synthetic materials can help lower everyday risk. The future of sustainability begins at home. Reading 🔗 on @BBC bbc.com/future/article/20260… #Microplastics #Sustainability #Environment #Health #CircularDesign #ClimateAction #BBC
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Hanna Hansdotter turns glass into rebellion. Bulging forms, mirrored surfaces, objects that feel alive. Where craft meets attitude. #HannaHansdotter More: randomunknownartist.com #randomunknownartist
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Tomihiro Kono redefines hair as sculpture. Through wigs, texture, and transformation, he turns identity into form. Where fashion meets art, the body becomes a canvas. #TomihiroKono More: randomunknownartist.com #randomunknownartist
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Something is forming. Quietly. 🙌🏼 No announcements. No rules. Just a presence built by those who are creating something real. ITIA is not for everyone. But if you feel it—you’re already inside. Comment #ITIA tag 3 people on your wavelength. A few will be chosen. 3,000 already found it. I THINK IT’S ART 🎨 @IThinkItsArt @Pe_ITIA @Iv_ITIA #IThinkItsArt
ITIA has officially opened its community on X A home for creators, thinkers and dreamers✨a space where art, ideas and voices meet and grow together. Post what moves you. Share what inspires you. Your stories, your visions, your energy, it all belongs here. Every voice counts and every perspective matters ! We are building this family with you, one artwork, one thought and one connection at a time 🤍
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Günaydın? ☀️// Good morning? ☀️ “O düşmüyor, teslim oluyor; güzelliğin, varoluşun sessiz çöküşünü maskelediği bir bahçenin içinde çözülüyor.” — David LaChapelle Bahçede Çöküş 1995 “She does not fall—she surrenders, dissolving into a garden where beauty masks the quiet collapse of being.” — David LaChapelle Collapse in a Garden 1995 #DavidLaChapelle #Photography
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Plant-based textiles are re-emerging not merely as a sustainable alternative, but as a material intelligence responding to climate, comfort, and longevity. From #hemp to #linen, their breathability, adaptability, and reduced #microplastic impact position them at the forefront of contemporary fashion systems. — An intriguing article to read at @moneycontrolcom Reading 🔗 moneycontrol.com/lifestyle/f… #SustainableFashion #TextileInnovation #MaterialCulture #CircularFashion #PlantBased #SlowFashion #EcoTextiles #Sustainability
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Günaydın? ☀️// Good morning? ☀️ “Görülen ile hissedilen arasında, gerçek bekler. Bulanık, uzak ve sessizce katlanılmaz...” — Darian Mederos Bekleyiş 2019 “Between what is seen and what is felt, the truth waits. Blurred, distant, and quietly unbearable...” — Darian Mederos The Wait 2019 #DarianMederos #Painting #Art
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Fashion doesn’t have a sustainability problem, it has a value problem. At ChangeNOW Paris, the message is clear: less volume, more meaning. less extraction, more regeneration. The solutions already exist. What’s missing is the courage to scale them. Reading 🔗 on @wwd wwd.com/sustainability/busin… #SustainableFashion #CircularFashion #ClimateCrisis #FashionSystem #FutureOfFashion #Sustainability #CircularEconomy
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Günaydın? ☀️// Good morning? ☀️ “Lüks sessizce çürür, arzunun, aşırılığın ve ardından gelen sessizliğin arasında bir yerde.” — Miles Aldridge Afternoons #1 2018 “Luxury decays quietly, somewhere between desire, excess, and the silence that follows.” — Miles Aldridge Afternoons #1 2018 #MilesAldridge #photograghy
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Fashion has never merely been worn, it has always been thought. The @V_and_A ’s Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art exhibition reframes couture as a site of radical artistic inquiry where surrealism, material innovation, and cultural provocation converge. Spanning from the 1920s to contemporary practice, the exhibition reveals how Elsa Schiaparelli dissolved boundaries between fashion and fine art through collaboration, illusion, and shock. This is not fashion inspired by art, this is fashion as art. Reading 🔗 on @Dazed dazeddigital.com/fashion/art… #Schiaparelli #FashionExhibition #FashionAsArt #Surrealism #VAMuseum #Couture #FashionTheory #ArtAndFashion #CreativeDirection #VA
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Günaydın? ☀️// Good morning? ☀️ “Üç figür, tek bir sessizlik, stil ve sırlarla birbirine dikilmiş.” — Guillermo Arias İsimsiz (Moda Haftasında Dedikodu) 2020’ler “Three figures, one silence, stitched together by style and secrets.” — Guillermo Arias Untitled (Gossip at Fashion Week) c. 2020s #GuillermoArias #illustration #Digitalillustration
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The emergence #upcycling brand #RCNSTRCTStudio that evaluates vintage @LEVIS ‘s signals a shift in contemporary fashion practice where reconstruction becomes both method and message. It reframes garments not as finished products, but as evolving systems of material, identity, and process. Reading Shopping 🔗 on @Complex complex.com/style/a/complexs… #SustainableFashion #Sustainability #ContemporaryFashion #MaterialCulture #FashionInnovation #CircularDesign #EmergingDesigners
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Günaydın? ☀️// Good morning? ☀️ “O, evrende süzülmez, ona çözülür; hem hatıraya hem de maddeye dönüşür.” — Elizaveta Porodina Inflorescence (Atmos Dergisi, Cilt 12: Pollinate), 2025 “She does not float in the universe, she dissolves into it, becoming both memory and matter.” — Elizaveta Porodina Inflorescence (Atmos Magazine, Volume 12: Pollinate), 2025 #ElizavetaPorodina #Pollinate #AtmosMagazine #Photography
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Textile waste has reached ~92 million tonnes annually yet most garments still lack viable end-of-life systems. Platforms like #Trashie reframe disposal as participation, combining logistics, incentives, and behavioural nudges to divert waste from landfill. But the deeper question remains: Is this systemic circularity or incentivised consumption in disguise? Reading 🔗 on @goodhousemag goodhousekeeping.com/life/a7… #SustainableFashion #CircularEconomy #TextileWaste #FashionSystem #Sustainability
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N’abersiniz? ☕️ // How are you all? ☕️ “O, göz için poz vermez. Gerçeklik ile algı arasındaki boşlukta var olur.” — Leng Jun İsimsiz (Yeşil Kazaklı Kadın) “She doesn’t pose for the eye—she lingers in the space between reality and perception.” — Leng Jun Untitled (Woman in Green Sweater) #LengJun #Art #Painting
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