Martina Glomb
USE-LESS limitless - Slow Fashion against Waste and Ugly Clothes
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Through Punk Martina Glomb gained the confidence to turn her passion for extreme fashion, traditional craft and DIY into a profession. Following her apprenticeship as a couture tailor and her studies of fashion design at the University of the Arts in Bremen she worked at the design studios of Vivienne Westwood in London and Italy. She was responsible for the notorious Anglomania line, the Red Label line and various other collections and projects. She returned to Germany and became head of the fashion department of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover, teaching also at international universities such as the China Academy of Art, The Swedish School of Textiles and The Robert Gordon University. She is the founder of the Modepreis Hannover and many other fashion projects, exhibitions and catwalk shows. Her research is focused on sustainability and Slow Fashion. As founder and director of the USE-LESS Centre for Sustainable Strategies she initiated the travelling exhibition “USE-LESS Slow Fashion against Waste and Ugly Clothes”