A little over a week ago the 2019 Ethical Fashion Guide was published by Baptist World Aid Australia. As the name suggests, the report is a comprehensive review of the activities of Australia brands in line with ethical practices and sustainability. The Ethical Fashion Guide highlights which Australian brands are making positive strides and meeting these...
Faye Delanty is the founder of Australian fashion blog Fashion Hound and is one of Australia’s most recognisable sustainable stylists and thrift store advocates. Formerly a presenter of Network Ten’s Totally Wild, Faye makes regular TV appearances as a fashion commentator, is the Australian Salvos Stores Ambassador and is a committed environmentalist. In the lead...
Fashion Revolution Week begins April 22 and we’re on a quest to bring you to the ethical side and encourage you to rebel against fashion fascists. Playing in the background while we fulfil this mission will be David Bowie’s song ‘Fashion’ in which he sings about how people have become slaves to the shallow nature...
This week Australia and New Zealand’s leading e-commerce platform THE ICONIC launched a new part of their website, Considered by THE ICONIC, allowing customers to shop by their personal sustainability values. This is not a new concept, smaller ethical fashion focussed online marketplaces have led the way with this business model, however this marks the...
What’s new in fashion? That is the most common question we ask when we talk about fashion. Once caught up, we update our wardrobe with these trends worn by Tinseltown’s beautiful people or the gorgeously-clad Instafamous. Inspired, you dress up in a style that is either urban chic, hipster or edgy. These eclectic options lead...
When you and your new husband are about to do the deed, you gotta make sure that you do it right. I’m not talking about the moves here. I’m referring to decking out in pieces of sexy yet sustainable and ethical undergarments on your wedding night. However, going “all out” for this hopefully just once-in-a-lifetime...
It’s warm, diverse, and passionate – yet sometimes myopic, exclusionary, and pandering. Researching the supply chains, power dynamics, and western apathy that make global exploitation possible and profitable in the fashion industry helped me grow throughout my teens and early 20s into a more well-rounded political advocate, however, as I gather expertise in the particulars...
Editor’s note: This is the ‘Letter from the Editor’ from this week’s newsletter. We have decided to republish it here. Sign up to receive our weekly newsletters so you receive them directly in your inbox. Hey guys, The Australian election is just around the corner and I’ve got my head buried in political news, planning...
Is corporate greed the root of capitalism’s evil? Ethical fashion entrepreneur Claudia Radu believes so. The founder of Honest Department, a UK-based global conscious fashion platform is on a mission to drive positive change, hoping to raise ethical and environmental standards not just in the fashion industry, but in the business environment too. “I believe...
“At tentree, we plant ten trees for every item we sell. Our goal is to become the most environmentally progressive brand on the planet, and we are using our mission as well as eco-progressive materials to plant 1 billion trees by 2030.” Before this email landed in my inbox, I’d never heard of the Canadian...
I’m not going to lie, I live in overalls (dungarees / jumpsuits) and nothing is more comfortable. As Sydney has taken a cold turn *shakes fist in anger* get those overalls out and lounge in them all day long (even at work). If you’re looking for overalls that are ethically produced from responsible material but...
Abuja, Nigeria: When I was a kid, my siblings and I would play a game with our clothes labels, a guessing game we labelled “guess the country”. One person would hold out a number of clothes and another would try to guess the countries where these clothes were made. The clothes we possessed were mostly...