Swap it, don’t shop it!
The Great Fashion Revolution Clothes Swap Bazaar comes to Kifissia Climate Week 2026: an open one-for-one clothes swap, a free styling corner and the stories hidden in our wardrobes.
- When: Thursday 12 November 2026, 10:00–17:00
Friday 13 November 2026, 11:00–14:00 - Where: Goulandris Natural History Museum, 13 Levidou Street & Othonos, Kifissia
- Entrance: free
- What to bring: 1–5 clean garments or accessories in good condition (women’s, men’s, children’s), ideally pieces of quality you would be happy to receive yourself
- Have more to give? If you have more quality clothes to bring for free swapping, we gladly accept them!
How it works
- Bring 1–5 clean clothes or accessories in good condition.
- At the welcome desk you receive one token for every piece you bring.
- Browse the rails and tables and choose what you love.
- Give one token for every piece you take home.
- Stop by the Circular Fashion Styling Corner and leave with a new look.
Every garment that changes hands instead of being bought new means less water, energy, waste and carbon, and one garment less in landfill. Whatever is left at the end of the two days goes to a social organisation. Nothing is thrown away.
What is happening
- The swap runs throughout: Thursday 10:00–17:00 and Friday 11:00–14:00.
- Circular Fashion Styling Corner: stylists and creators give free advice on how to combine the pieces of the swap, throughout the swap on both days.
- Wardrobe Stories: every garment carries a story. Tell yours in a short video for the Wardrobe Stories Barometer, the citizen-science platform of the CIRCUFash project.
- Do you work or study in fashion and textiles? Take five minutes for the ReMODE survey that maps the skills the circular fashion sector needs in Greece.
- 12:30 Short greetings from the Municipality of Kifissia, the Goulandris Museum and the Ambassadors of the European Climate Pact.
“Every garment carries a story. By swapping, citizens move from talk to action and show that circular fashion starts in our own wardrobe.”
Dr Fiori Zafeiropoulou, Fashion Revolution Greece
We will count the participants, the swaps and the garments saved from landfill and publish the results here after the event.
Who is behind it
Organised by Fashion Revolution Greece together with ReMODE at the Athens University of Economics and Business, CIRCUFash at SOFFA – Social Fashion Factory and the UNESCO Chair on Green Innovation and Circular Economy of the National Technical University of Athens, with the Ambassadors of the European Climate Pact Sofia Gialama and Marianna Rappou.
Hosted by the Municipality of Kifissia – Nea Erythraia – Ekali, as part of Kifissia Climate Week 2026, and the Goulandris Natural History Museum. With the support of the Embassy of Italy in Athens.
The team: Dr Fiori Zafeiropoulou (Fashion Revolution Greece, SOFFA, UNESCO Chair NTUA and ELTRUN AUEB) and Dr Elena Chatzopoulou, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Athens University of Economics and Business, with the student volunteers of AUEB. Prof. Konstantinos Aravossis, holder of the UNESCO Chair on Green Innovation and Circular Economy at NTUA, speaks at the Climate Week central conference on Thursday 12 November on the new Circular Economy plan.
Memories from our swaps
The Great Fashion Revolution Clothes Swap has been bringing people and their clothes together in Athens since 2023. Here is what it looked like.
2023 · Fashion Revolution Week at K44, Kerameikos
On 27 April 2023, ten years after Rana Plaza, the swap took over K44 in Kerameikos as part of EARTH Dialogues Vol. 3 with Organization Earth: a clothes swap, a circular fashion costume exhibition, a fashion film, live interviews and a DJ set. A month later, on 30 May 2023, we swapped again with the students of the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business.
2024 · Skywalker “Don’t Drop Festival”, Serafeio
On 15 and 16 May 2024 the swap travelled to the Don’t Drop Festival on the circular economy at the Serafeio complex of the City of Athens, where students and families swapped clothes for two days.
Information: greece@fashionrevolution.org
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The event is an activity of the Erasmus+ projects ReMODE (Centres of Vocational Excellence) and CIRCUFash. Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.