Please join us on Friday, 19th June 2026, to celebrate the grand opening of Fashionhouse, by Cherwell Collective with honoured guest Callum Miller, MP.

Fashionhouse will host local sustainable artists at the very site of creation for our own Waste Innovation Station Headquarters (WISH) line for the 2026 Sustainable Fashion Show at Blenheim Palace. From fashion design to community courses, we are thrilled to share our grand opening and plans for this new space and important addition to our community’s circular infrastructure.

What is Fashionhouse?

Cherwell Collective is opening a creative space for local sustainable fashion designers called ‘Fashionhouse, by Cherwell Collective’. In our outreach, the most commonly cited challenge for creatives is finding affordable space. Fashionhouse seeks to remove this very important barrier to meaningful climate action by sharing our space with others. 

Fashionhouse offers three “hot shops’’, or small workspaces, that creatives can borrow for designated time periods. Access to shared equipment and repurposed materials at Fashionhouse will also help them to keep costs down. Members of the community have donated clothes rails, mannequins, fabrics, and more to keep this community space for creation aligned with our principles of the circular economy and using resources already in circulation. 

We hope that this physical space to experiment, create, and develop their brand will make a difference to designers who want to commit to a sustainable craft.

The space is already in use by designers featured in the annual Sustainable Fashion Show at Blenheim Palace on September 29, 2026. Our own Creative Director, Molliemae Cox has been using the space to sketch her designs and experiment with non-traditional materials. The space will also be used to train local models involved in the show.

What else will we use the space for?

Though most of the space will be used for fashion, we have also designed a multi-use space for our not-for-profit activities. This space includes a boardroom for our team meetings, an executive office, storage for the Oxford Party Library, an exhibition gallery, and an event space for community members to share knowledge through leading courses. 

Using the Gloucester Art community’s model for operations, we will forgo any fee for use of the space. Co-creators using the space will instead be invited to volunteer to open the exhibition space on weekends for public viewings of our Carbon Cost of Fashion Exhibition and Oxford Party Library borrows and returns. This will help costs to remain affordable for all involved, and will help us reach as many people as possible with our circular economy outreach and infrastructure.

We aim to offer the following courses after our opening; 

  • Inclusive Yoga by Vanessa
  • Healing by Carol
  • Cake decorating by Jeannie 

Fashionhouse by Cherwell Collective Grand Opening

We invite all community members to join this special Grand Opening and get acquainted with Fashionhouse and our mission. Celebrate community, partnership, and plans for the future.

  • Dress code: dress to impress.
  • Food: catered by Cherwell Collective’s Climatarian Kitchen. 
  • Music: only local Oxfordshire musicians in a playlist designed to walk you through a delightful night of arts and entertainment. 

The program:  

5 pm doors open

5:30 pm opening remarks and ribbon cutting by MP Callum Miller.

7 pm event ends

Getting there

Bus stop: Langford Locks, Bus S7, S4 or 800. 

There is limited parking on-site on the side of the building. 

RSVP here to attend the grand opening