In World 266, the institution called The Alternative Fashion School (TAFS) exists in Norfolk, UK. The ways that fashion is imagined, communicated, produced, shared and enacted at TAFS perhaps look quite different from what we might be familiar with, in our own world. Students at TAFS are trained to contribute to new and pre-existing fashion systems which foster human (and non-human) flourishing, within planetary boundaries. TAFS has existed for a long time, although it may have taken different formats and held different names over that time. In 2025, TAFS historians, archivists and curators are researching the history of the institution.
The illustrated TAFS timeline was created during the exploration workshop by Susannah Elizabeth.
The pdf below provides a more detailed version of the timeline.
This Exploration was contributed by Ellery Child, Tasha Cobb, Nina Dobson, Susannah Elizabeth, Daisy Elsom, Dan Harper, Kate Harper, Annie Hill, Viqui Horsey, Ruth Jenkins, Charlotte McGreavy, Cata Parrish, Helen Pallett, Lucy Puttock and Eleanor Sorrell, with input in the preparation phase from Sally Cooke, Viqui Horsey, Kate Harper, Charlotte McGreavy, Cata Parrish, Amy Twigger Holroyd and Jenny Williams (all located in the UK), developed from a World contributed by We Wear The Trousers, using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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