Smart Fashion - promoting personal sustainable fashion

Aims of the tool

To raise awareness among young people about sustainable fashion, including fair production costs, environmental impact, and more responsible consumption habits.
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To promote a care‑repair‑reuse mindset by sharing practical tools and workshop methods that help participants repair, personalise and extend the life of their clothes.
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To celebrate and exchange diverse European clothing traditions (Latvia, Germany, Estonia, Spain) as a way to connect culture with sustainability.

To provide easily transferable ideas and activities (workshops, tips, examples) that youth workers, educators and young people can replicate in their own communities to “create, not consume”.

Description of the tool

Repairing our clothes is more than just a way to save money. It's a way of saying "no" to the way the fashion industry treats people. It's a way of saying "no" to the way it makes people feel like they need to buy more and more new clothes. This info will give you some great ideas on how to be more creative with your clothes and make sure they last. Create not consume!

The toolkit includes:

Information about the youth exchange project "Smart Fashion".

The educational content of a fair-paid T-shirt cost breakdown in Europe, decomposition timeline of different fabrics.

You will find "Good practices" and "Quick tips for a sustainable wardrobe" with concrete suggestions.

The cultural exchange activity called "Cultural Threads".

This toolkit was developed withing the project Smart Fashion (Project number: 2024-3-LV02-KA152-YOU-000283539) and co-financed by the European Union.