Edited by Caragh Taylor and Hannah Black. Creative direction by Soo Hahn. Visual design by Laszlo Karsai.
"This intensified attachment to technology we collectively experienced made us, at DUCFS, stop and ask: what does the future of technology look like?"
"The internet has become a ‘medium for style documentation’ – via fashion blogs, street-style and social media and has created this current atmosphere of ‘hyper-visibility and self-surveillance’ – in which outer image is privileged above all else."
"The consumer has become a pawn in the game of unsustainable mass consumption, detaching us from the ability to engage with the creativity and fun that is at the heart of fashion."
"Our consumption habits, fostered for us by fast fashion and targeted ads, will build an external identity detached from our own creativity and tastes."
"Only 19% of people have tried to buy clothing made in an environmentally responsible way."
"If consumers were capable of using these platforms for good, exposing and disseminating information about companies who continue to advertise their ‘sustainability’ whilst actually partaking in detrimental environmental behaviour, technology’s role could be changed from one which enables overconsumption, into one which instead enables sustainable fashion and the demise of the fast fashion paradox."
"We awake from a daze, fondly remembering the qualities which make us most human."
"I have always been drawn to fashion photography, specifically that which demonstrates the bizarre, accentuates human form and contrasts the usual. Hence, we pushed the creative boundaries of DUCFS further afield by fostering a fantastical and opulent future in UPLOAD, an etherial fantasy in REFLECT and a hyper-tech scene in DISCONNECTED as a whole."
Hermione Middle
Photographer, DUCFS 2021
"The work that both DUCFS and Create do is hugely important and we were thrilled to join them on their journey and help deliver on their mission."
Richard Strachan
3 Sided Cube
"This magazine is the perfect embodiment of our charitable and creative vision – a demonstration of what creativity and technology can produce when driven by a team of passionate and inspired individuals."
Emily Kirkby
President, DUCFS 2021
Very special thanks go to our 29 executive committee members, 42 THREAD zine contributors, 44 models and presenters, 3000 show night attendees and the wider student body that made it possible for the 2021 campaign to raise just over £55,000 to fund a technological partnership between charity Create and 'tech-for-good' developers 3 Sided Cube.
