A CITY artist is running a fashion event with a difference.

Libby Russell (pictured) will hold a one day ‘sustainable fashion festival’ at iconic Town Quay building God’s House Tower on April 22 from 10am. Entry is free.

Aimed at casting a “critical eye” on the fashion industry the event is billed as “a day of thought-provoking engagement” and timed to coincide with Fashion Revolution Week, a movement calling for “greater transparency, sustainability and ethics” in the fashion industry.

Naked Coffee will be providing refreshments all day with a pop up on the ground floor. Stall holders include Re:So, Not Just Trash, October Books, Slow But Fearless, Scrapstore and DIY stalls.

There will also be a screening The True Cost documentary in the evening.

The day is part of Ms Russell’s artist residency at God’s House Tower, where she and seven other artists are producing work under the umbrella title ‘GHT: a reincarnation,’ while the city’s former gunnery is redeveloped into an arts centre.

As previously reported by the Daily Echo the group were awarded £50,000 to make art inspired by the grade II listed ancient monument.

Artists Jo Willoughby, Greg Gilbert, Libby Russell, Deborah Gearing, Kirsty Smith, Jilly Evans and Celeste Ingram will create works using various media including drama, video, and drawing – with a focus on public engagement.

Led by Sarah Filmer, whose 2013 ‘Blue Jumper’ project got 12,000 people knitting, the programme will start with a parade of 700 women through the tower in a symbolic feminisation of the historic building.

In its previous incarnations God’s House Tower was one of the gatehouses into Southampton, a refuge for poor travellers, home to the town gunners, a ‘house of correction’ and the gaol until the late 1800s.