TECHNICAL AND CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE, INTERDISCIPLINARY VISIONS AND CONNECTING SKILLS FOR SLOW FASHION INDUSTRY: SUSTAINABLE TEXTILE DYEING TECHNOLOGIES AND CAPSULE COLLECTION DESIGN

Sustainability in Fashion Design is not a slogan for effect, rather it is connected to the themes of production, use, reuse, need of variety, slowing down the mechanisms of accumulation and consumption. The Fashion industry is also called upon to integrate sustainability-related practices to counteract the environmental issues into its business models [1]. The contribution illustrates a didactic experimentation implemented by three courses of the three-year degree in Fashion Design, implemented in a coordinated way: Course of Materials and Technologies for Fashion Design, Course of Fashion Skills and Laboratory of Fashion Design II, within which the principle of "Acted and student-centred Learning” to develop soft skills was relevant. The opportunity is provided by the Creative Europe Project, "FASHION ALIVE. Development of new audiences via innovative cultural and digital strategies to promote experimental sustainable fashion methods," which awarded the Vanvitelli University (Italy) and its partners CREAMODITE (Spain), UMINHO (Portugal). The teaching frameworks are designed following Bloom's Taxonomy [2]. Creative experimentation has led several groups of young future designers to create a sample collection of natural fabrics (cotton, linen, hemp and silk) dyed by a natural process using vegetables and food products and designing a capsule collection based on upcycling strategy [3]. The creative action does not end with the didactic experience, but the final products will be presented to the public during three experimental fashion and art events of sustainable creations.