Name: Designing Together COVERSLUT©
Start: 2025-10-30T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-10-30T20:30:00+00:00
Location: V&A Dundee

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Design workshop facilitated by Rachel Siobhán Tyler hosted by V&A Dundee.
This workshop takes inspiration from COVERSLUT©, Ndiritu’s fashion brand founded in 2016. COVERSLUT© integrates capitalist, Pay What You Can (PWYC) and environmental/ethical strategies into its economic framework, and is focused on dealing with issues of race, gender, and class politics. The workshop will collaboratively consider how ethos central to COVERSLUT© can help us envision new ways of designing together—and will ask: “who has the right to be fashionable?”
The workshop opens with an introduction to COVERSLUT© and the brand’s anti-sweatshop stance – including decolonial and equitable practices of fair wages, new economic models (like PWYC), and critical and environmental practices—such as low-impact textile processes, and post-consumer re-use. We will then discuss how stories of gender, labour, and class saturate our own clothes. We will conclude with a design workshop looking at how existing garments can be literally, and metaphorically, ‘re-used’ to create new ways of designing and thinking about fashion together.
This event is part of A Season of Peace Building, programmed with Grace Ndiritu for The Ignorant Art School: Sit-in Curriculum #5 and held in collaboration with V&A Dundee. This series of conversations, workshops and gatherings is designed by Grace Ndiritu, drawing on her book Being Together: A Manual For Living as a template.
Sign-up
Book a place through V&A Dundee
Participant info
You are invited to bring along a favourite (or least favourite!) garment to share and explore in the workshop
We will have papers and pens and other mark-making materials available.
Biography
Rachel Siobhán Tyler is a transdisciplinary artist, design historian, and educator, working at the intersection of art, architecture, fashion, and geography, collaborating with artists, designers, and makers. Their practice draws on a design background, and focuses on developing innovative approaches to feminist, queer, and inclusive knowledge-making. Rachel is a lecturer at Falmouth University and is part of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project. Rachel’s work has been exhibited at Building Centre, London; Folkestone Triennale, Folkestone; The Bartlett School of Architecture, London; and at Somerset House, London; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, and on-schedule during London Fashion Week as a part of New Power Studio.
Partnership
This event is a collaboration in partnership with V&A Dundee.