A brand new sustainable fashion flea market is making its way to Dublin city centre.
The aptly-named Sustainable Fashion Dublin Flea Market will be a monthly celebration of sustainable fashion in its entirety – complete with DJ sets, workshops, panel talks, screenings and cocktails.
Every month will see the entire first floor of The Workman's Club filled with stall traders showcasing rails of vintage and secondhand pieces, individuals selling their own preloved gems and local artisan and sustainable vendors.
Whilst the flea market itself will be free to enter, there will also be a range of upcycling workshops taking place throughout the day – costing a fraction of the usual price – which people can buy tickets in advance via the Sustainable Fashion Dublin Instagram page.
At the helm will be Ireland’s finest sustainable fashion purveyors, Taz Kelleher and Geraldine Carton, who have grown synonymous with secondhand delights as a result of their weekly charity shop crawls and swap shops.
Taz and Geraldine are the co-founders of Sustainable Fashion Dublin, an awareness-raising and events platform that aims to highlight the negative effects of the fast fashion industry whilst providing a positive alternative: the circular economy.
"In a time when we are seeing a truck-load of clothing going to landfill/incineration every day; when young people have up to 400% more clothing than their parents did before them – the reality is that we do not need more clothing," according to the pair.
The dynamic duo is fervently passionate about secondhand shopping and proving just how colourful, fun and expressive sustainable fashion can be.
And it looks like they're onto something, as a 2019 thredUp Resale Report showed that the pre-loved market is booming; 56 million women bought secondhand products in 2018, an increase of 12 million new secondhand shoppers from the year prior.
This coincides with what several industry analysts predicted would happen in tandem with the “Kondo Effect" – that fast fashion would eventually slow down.
The first Sustainable Fashion Dublin Flea Market Workshop will see both Geraldine and Taz host a special HOLEY MOLEY Patchwork Workshop.
Attendees are invited to bring items of clothing that have holes in them and learn how to patch them up with pizzazz, colour and style.
Tickets for this – extremely limited – workshop are €15 and will be available from Monday, 11 November. Grab your tickets via the Sustainable Fashion Dublin Instagram page.
The very first flea will take place at The Workman’s Club on Saturday, 16 November from 12 noon to 5pm.
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