Fashion - Hackney Citizen

‘Welfare not warfare’: Legendary fashion designer Katharine Hamnett on her new 'End Genocide' campaign

Hamnett talks to the Citizen about her activism, and the importance of speaking out about Gaza

Author: Catriona Harrison

‘Welfare not warfare’: Legendary fashion designer Katharine Hamnett on her new 'End Genocide' campaign

Fashion's obsession with decay spearheads major exhibition at the Barbican

Dirty Looks, which features more than 100 garments from the past 50 years, chronicles the industry's infatuation with grime

Author: Hackney Citizen

Fashion's obsession with decay spearheads major exhibition at the Barbican

From McQueen to green

Meet Brett Mettler, the former high fashion designer teaching kids the beauty of sustainability

Author: Hackney Citizen

Legendary designer Katharine Hamnett backs Oxfam’s Secondhand September campaign

Hamnett visited her local branch in Dalston to support the charity’s #SecondHandSeptember drive

Author: Hackney Citizen

Legendary designer Katharine Hamnett backs Oxfam’s Secondhand September campaign

‘You take the highs with the lows’: London’s ‘only Black-led high street vintage shop’ celebrates 10 years in Hackney

The Citizen catches up with Rekindled owner Jackie Dacres as she looks back at a decade on Well Street

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘You take the highs with the lows’: London’s ‘only Black-led high street vintage shop’ celebrates 10 years in Hackney

‘What we create has consequences’: Teenagers to be trained up in sustainable fashion as studio launches workshops in East London

CQ Studio to run programme in Poplar to prepare young people for jobs in eco-friendly fashion

Author: Lizzie McAllister

‘What we create has consequences’: Teenagers to be trained up in sustainable fashion as studio launches workshops in East London

Natural dye studio in Hackney teams up with underwear firm to create ‘soil to soil’ pants – with crowdfunder to start soon

Wick-based Cordwainers Grow is working with Little Black Pants Club to roll out sustainable knickers across the UK

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Natural dye studio in Hackney teams up with underwear firm to create ‘soil to soil’ pants – with crowdfunder to start soon

One month until Africa Utopia comes to the Southbank Centre – check out the full programme

The festival runs from 19 – 22 July, features music, talks, food and fashion, and is headlined by Malian husband-and-wife hitmakers Amadou & Mariam

Author: Hackney Citizen

Celebration: a shot from last year's Africa Utopia festival

Pawnography: Hackney Chess Club turn unlikely fashion icons for Korean clothing brand CHANCECHANCE

Photographer Wendy Huynh decked the club out in coats and tops from the Seoul-based company’s Winter collection, for a Stoke Newington fashion shoot

Author: Andrew Barnes

King of fashion: detail from the CHANCECHANCE shoot with Hackney Chess Club. All photographs: Wendy Huynh

Wear the Walk in Hackney Central offers blockbuster fashion – to rent

Seconds from the behemoth fashion brands of Hackney Walk lies a new, subscription-based kind of clothing outlet, masterminded by 26-year-old entrepreneur Zoe Partridge

Author: Hackney Citizen

'Wear the Walk was built to be different': Zoe Partridge outside her Bohemia Place digs. Photographs: Jedidajah Otte

London Queer Fashion Show to serve looks ‘for the people that believe in unique identity’

Six designers will be showing off collections at Hackney Showroom this time next week, Wednesday 20 September

Author: Hackney Citizen

London Queer Fashion Show to serve looks ‘for the people that believe in unique identity’

Meet the man monkeying around with 1970s T-shirt transfers

Andrew Rutland runs Let It Gibbon, a stall that allows people to cut and paste their selection of authentically retro decals onto their own unique shirt

Author: Hackney Citizen

“I came across a room filled to the brim with old 1970’s T shirt transfers” - Andrew Rutland. Photograph: Christopher Sims