Katherine Hamnett Fashion Designer Katherine Hamnett Biography
Katharine Hamnett is a prolific fashion designer, acclaimed for the past four decades, her latter works call attention to the processes of textile production and interrogates their detrimental effects on both environment and ethical labour standards.
Hamnett's collections can be seen as interventions. In 2003 her Autumn Winter Womenswear collection was shown at London Fashion Week, the Stop the War T shirts featured on the catwalk, this resulted in UK and International newspaper coverage including front pages worldwide. Andy Birkin from The Stop the War Coalition commented that this tee instigated the 30,000,000 person demonstration that took place the following year.
Hamnett was invited by OXFAM to visit African cotton farmers in Mali. Hamnett met with African farmers and visited government officials to highlight the plight of the cotton farmers due to western cotton subsidies before the Cancun trade conference, photographs and interviews appeared in key UK and International Newspapers and Television Worldwide.
In July 2004, Hamnett auctioned her anti-war 'Not in my name' t-shirt online with i-D. In October the same year, a photograph of Jodie Kidd wearing Hamnett's 'Stop war Blair out' t-shirt was exhibited at the Imperial War Museum. This year Hamnett also launched the organic cotton campaign to raise awareness of the issues again to the world's press.
In 2005, Katharine Hamnett designed and sourced manufacturing for 12,000 organic cotton t-shirts for the Oxfam 'Make Poverty History' / G8 summit campaign.
In 2006 the new Katharine E Hamnett collection for menswear and womenswear was launched - 'E' stands for production that is as environmentally and ethically sound as possible. These collections use organically grown cottons and wools, and were shown in London and Paris for summer 07.
Katharine Hamnett Website
http://www.katharinehamnett.com/
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