Wear Next: Fashioning the Future Brand / Maison Bengal this publication continues the fiction

this publication continues the fiction at the heart of the third Artist’s Choice exhibition

from traditional Indigenous archives and their developments in recent times to the deconstruction of European archives by contemporary artists as acts of cultural empowerment

creating one of a kind Bigin bowls and Bagu sculptures

but many paths that are leading to more awareness and a greater conversation

Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies

Wear Next: Fashioning the Future Brand / Maison Bengal this publication continues the fictionWhat will you be wearing tomorrow? Will your jacket have been grown in a lab, or your jeans coloured using bacteria? Will we still have shops? What does the future of work look like for the people who make our garments? The current fashion system is wasteful, environmentally harmful and exploitative. And, if we carry on as we do now, it could account for a quarter of global emissions by 2050. But creative thinkers are dreaming up new ways to craft our