EcoFashion program at the 4th BBIEAF 2012
The world's preoccupation with fashion can be very easily gauged by turning on the television set,  newspapers and magazine. It seems that this preoccupation starts very early in life, as personal experience has taught me through three nieces, now aged 7 to 13 years and stays dominant in the adult market as seen in the ubiquity of fashion ads in all newspapers, magazines, the internet. It is a strong factor in the extinction and exploitation of both plant and animal resources, and an important factor in the continuing problems of pollution and waste management world-wide.
If BBIEAF is going to make the difference that it envisions to make, in the quickest amount of time, it should then be something that catches the attention, not only of the environmentalists and nature lovers, or the artists. It should also be of interest to the rest of the population, from as early in life as possible, and for both sexes.
EcoFashion is a grand effort to reorient this powerful common interest towards more sustainable avenues – ones that do not lead to overexploitation or extinction of resources, that are highly conscious of recycling materials, both without sacrificing what fashion is supposed to endow – class, sophistication, beauty – desired endpoints of the groom-and-preen exercise. EcoFashion must be sustainable AND beautiful, sensible while uncompromisingly up-to-date, or “fashionable”. And it must be seamlessly integrated into a new way of life that will be carried on and integrated into the mindset and lifestyle of people from  now on.
The BBIEAF believes that the struggle to open eyes and change mindsets can be brought from the domain of the environmentalists and artists into the living room of every house in the world, whether they presently find affinity with art or not.
The BBIEAF (www.bbieaf.org)will provide an avenue for the research, production, presentation, exhibition and dissemination of new resources, new processes, new sensibilities, new designs all of which can blaze new paths to wearable fashion that will take into consideration and effectively address the present global environmental concerns. The festival will be held from Feb 27 to Mar 4, 2012 in Daet, Philippines. Participants in the EcoFashion program will start earlier according to the needs of their proposals. Equipment and resources needed must be listed and submitted together with the proposals. The BBIEAF will provide food and accommodation during the production and the festival itself and efforts will be made to realize selected proposals in EcoFashion, as well as market/disseminate the winning proposals, if the artist/designer so desires.
Artists, clothes designers, fashion houses, engineers, chemists, design centers, universities, research centers, are all invited to submit proposals respondent to the brief outlined above. Please submit proposals before October 30, 2011 to bbieaf@yahoo.com