SWAP UP - Sustainable Style and Clothes Swap

Clothes swaps are the sustainable shopping of the future! In Australia, over 200,000 tonnes of clothing goes into landfill each year. We’re the world's second-biggest consumer of fashion and textiles per capita!

Join the City of Joondalup, Uptown, Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council (EMRC) and The Style Counsellor Ciara Lowe-Thiedeman to learn how to dress more sustainably, shop mindfully and tackle common pre-loved shopping stigma. Learn to re-wear, rethink clothing and discover the key to being well dressed and sustainable.

Style guru and sustainability and mental-health activist Ciara Lowe-Thiedeman leads with joyful conviction and a vulnerability in her work which is changing lives all over Perth. This London-trained award-winning personal stylist is shaking up the world of sustainable personal style through successful keynotes, presentations, and one on one coaching sessions.

Let the Style Counsellor teach you how to become sustainably stylish, to re-think and reduce textile waste and consider how to BUY LESS. BUY BETTER, LOOK BETTER AND DO BETTER. Sustainability and style are not mutually exclusive. Ciara will present on the Spring Summer 2024 upcoming trends and how to recreate trends sustainably. She will also share her expertise on how to dress transeasonally and how to get more bang for your buck using what you already own.

How it works:

Bring some of your unwanted clothing, and leave with something new.

Clothes must be clean and good quality (not worn out, faded, or damaged). For example, would you be happy to give the item to a friend to wear? 

Times

9.00am - Check in and drop off clothes – tea and coffee served

9.30am - Presentation on Sustainable Fashion with Ciara, The Style Councillor

10.30am - Make way to clothes swap on Central Walk via coffee shops (coffee vouchers are available - don't forget your reusable cup!)

11.00am - Clothes Swap with EMRC starts

12.00pm - Clothes Swap ends

Please note: the location of the clothes swap is a 5 - 10min walk from the Joondalup Reception Centre (to Central Walk). Therefore, participants must be able to make their own way to Central Walk.  There will also be a photographer and videographer present on the day. Please make it known to the organiser if you do not wish to be photographed or on the video.