10 November 2026
Bethany Williams describes herself as ‘an artist, humanitarian and sustainable fashion designer’. Since graduating from the London College of Fashion in 2016, her collections have used waste and discarded clothes and she has collaborated with organisations that help people with a range of issues – including drug addiction and homelessness – to create high end fashion pieces.
During the pandemic, she joined forces to a few of her fashion friends to create the Design Emergency Network, making PPE for those on the front line of the crisis. And most recently, she has launched a new collection with clothing brand, Toast.
In this episode we talk about: splitting her time between the Isle of Man and London’s Deptford; dealing with severe illness and how it affected her work and personal lives; the importance of love and family; painting again; returning to fashion with the Toast project; how working with clay brought her back to textiles; the importance of craft and systems to her practice; creating socially sustainable fashion; and her extraordinary response to the Covid crisis.
Finally, you can find more information on Assemble with Material Matters here: materialmatters.design/conference
And you can purchase tickets here: app.pairsoftware.io/material-matters/ou3085wj
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