About Me...Hello! My name is Tegan Cooke, and I am a Fashion Design Graduate from Nottingham Trent University.
Social change through fashion is my truest passion; something I am to help achieve in many ways, including improving access to arts education by successfully campaigning for A-Level Textiles to be run at my school, raising awareness of sustainability through my monthly blogs for NTU's Fashion Revolution society, and designing adaptive clothing to benefit those with invisible disabilities. My adaptive clothing project stems from my own experience with Fibromyalgia, and my increasing awareness that fashion isn't designed for disabled people. As I learn more about my own condition and how to manage it, I become more passionate about improving accessibility in fashion - including bringing accessible features into standard womenswear. As well as accessibility, I prioritise sustainability in all that I do, having had my eyes opened in 2018 by the Victoria and Albert museum’s Fashioned from Nature exhibition to the detrimental impact of fashion on our planet. I love to learn more about sustainability and I greatly enjoy writing about what I find out. I wrote my dissertation exploring how we can learn from fashion's past to create a sustainable future, and I later adapted this into a magazine to further share what I had learnt. I wrote monthly for the NTU Fashion Revolution Society's blog, and recently started writing for my own blog again! |
What am I doing this month? January 2024
This month I am... Reconsidering my options for my future - aiming to gain experience writing, working with sustainability, or honing my design skills. Restarting blog writing, converting my university magazine Collective into an online format. Contact me
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