INNOVATION AND TRADITION IN TEXTILES:

SUSTAINABILITY - ECOLOGY - SLOW FASHION, shared roots and present development in the Moravian and Saxon Manchesters

The project is financially supported by the Czech-German Fund for the Future.

The Moravian Gallery is to launch a project in collaboration with the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig. 

The aim of the project is to draw attention to the issues of so-called fast fashion, the impacts of textile production unfriendly to the environment and/or abusive work conditions of people working in the textiles industry. The project points out the growing tendency in society leading to circular design, slow fashion, upcycling, preferring environmentally-friendly approaches and new technologies. Against the background of the industrial cultural heritage of Brno and Chemnitz (Karl-Marx-Stadt), in their time nicknamed the Moravian and Saxon Manchesters, the project reveals the development stages of textile industry from the beginnings to the present day and how this heritage is manifested in today's appearance of the cities, their new textile projects and the activities of young designers rooting for sustainable fashion.