A museum has hosted a college fashion show in conjunction with an exhibition exposing the exploitation of workers in the textile and cotton trade. 

Lecturers from Waltham Forest College in Forest Road, Walthamstow, worked alongside schools in the borough in the run up to the catwalk, held at William Morris Gallery, on January 22. 

Pupils from Connaught Schools for Girls in Connaught Road, Leytonstone, designed and modelled the creations of burnt and damaged clothing to reflect the 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh. 

More than 1,120 people died and a further 2,515 were injured when the eight-storey Rana Plaza garment factory, which made clothes for European retailers, collapsed in Savar, near the capital Dhaka.

The fashion show coincided with the launch of artist Alke Schmidt's exhibition 'Tangled Yarns', which runs until Saturday.  

Waltham Forest College lecturer Fenella Magnus, said: "We looked at the role of ethical fashion in society.

"We explored the terrible conditions the garment makers worked in, how poorly paid they were, and how victims received no compensation afterwards from the companies who used them.

"Each student was given a burned or damaged item of clothing, and asked to create a design for the show. The results were spectacular."

Tangled Yarns explores the politics and morality of the textile industry and the cotton trade, from the 18th century to the present day.