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Raising Awareness
November 2022: Shown at the G20 in Bali Indonesia
NET WORTH EXHIBIT created by Port Planet for the G20 THK Forum, 13th - 18th November 2022, UID Bali Campus, Kura Kura Bali and G20 State Leaders’ Dinner
EXHIBIT TEXT: Fashion is the second biggest industry globally. An estimated 100 billion garments are produced with a revenue of $2 trillion each year. Textile manufacture is damaging to the environment and 84% of clothing ends in landfill after little use. What are the environmental and economic possibilities of changing our habits? Huge innovation is being made in the industry: from converting waste to fabric, to protecting the human supply chain and bringing back real value to each item of clothing. Moving away from disposable fashion, we encourage innovation in ecologically sound textiles and production - this has to be the future of the industry.
Refashioning the Clothing Industry
“Fashion is one of the world’s most important industries, driving a significant part of the global economy. It is one of the key value-creating industries for the world economy. If it were ranked alongside individual countries’ GDP the global fashion industry would represent the seventh-largest economy in the world’”
— McKinsey State of Fashion report, 2017
It is thought that 1 in 6 people work in the fashion industry in some way or other, of which 80% are women and of which 98% do not receive a living wage
THE EXHIBIT Overview: The Net Worth exhibit showed the key piece, The Cherie dress and scarf on a mannequin, with accompanying QR code for its digital certificate. The board had samples from some of the innovative companies revolutionising textile manufacture, and in its final stage, also featured the traditional Indonesian ‘ulos’ made from recycled bottles and natural dyes by the workshop of Dumasi, following her time on the United in Diversity HDX course.
THE G20 STATE LEADERS’ Dinner
Two versions of the ‘Cherie’ dress exist, one of which was shown at the exhibit, while the other, made with the material reversed, was worn by Ms Cherie Nursalim, special advisor to the Indonesian Government and Co-founder of the United in Diversity Foundation, to the G20 State Leaders’ dinner in Bali. Cherie reported back that the dress was admired by many.
AVATAR Premiere, London
The Cherie dress was worn by Valerie Keller, co-founder of Imagine, to the Avatar Premiere in December 2022, where Suzy Cameron described it as ‘mermaid activism’!
