I Like Your Sleeves

I like Your Sleeves is a project designed and created by Southsea resident Hannah Blackledge now studying at Falmouth University.  The idea is to use the clothes and items found in a charity shop and prove they can be part of a fashionable wardrobe.  This is done by promoting outfits made from at least two items from a charity shop on a catwalk and after the show the audience can buy what they see.  The main intention being to prove that integrating 2nd-hand clothing into your existing wardrobe is fun and fashionable whist helping to reduce the unethical waste stream created by mass production.

ILYS has been designed to create a solution to the mass consumption of mass produced, cheap fashion trends with the idea to celebrate ethical shopping focusing on charity shops.  Through research Hannah found that there is a common negative opinion about 2nd-hand clothing that made her want to prove the potential that discarded items still have.

ILYS#1 was the guinea pig event to see how it is received from a public audience.  The success of ILYS#1 will mean further events are planned,  starting here in her hometown of Portsmouth.  ILYS is a student collaborative project and invites other undergraduates to get involved as it is a valuable source of work experience and helps to form inter-course connections.  If you are a student from Portsmouth and would like to get involved in ILYS#2 please get in contact now with Hannah now.  You can contact her at likeyoursleeves@gmail.com

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Dead Man’s Glory – Grand Opening

Dead Man’s Glory will be opening their doors on the 28th March and will be stocking a wide range ladies and men’s vintage clothing (some items even date back to the 50s) plus stocking items by ZoZo, reworked vintage clothing by local fashion designer Zoe Laker. The store will be a new addition to Albert Road (it’s located across the road from Porters) and we at Strong Island wish them all the best. Really looking forward to this little shop, and it’s not going to be purely clothing. There will be various other vintage items flowing over from Parmiters Antiques.

For more info check the flyer below, the grand opening day’s Facebook event or the store’s MySpace page.

If you want to get in touch with Luci you can phone at 02392 822441/07951 237300 or email or deadmansglory.co.uk.

PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage