In the fashion industry, the conversation on sustainability is an ever-evolving one. The principles and concepts that decide what products are ethical or sustainable are ever shifting and expanding. So I read what I could and for my own benefit, I surmised that a fashion brand is ethical and sustainable fashion if the brand “…treats...
You’re here because you’re above fast fashion and are keen to purchase shoes that ‘do good’ and aren’t f*cking up the planet or people’s lives. Thank you and welcome! You’ve come to the right place as we’ve curated this list of men’s ethical footwear brands just for you. Whatever your requirements, style preferences, tastes and...
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Author: Yvette Selim, Interim Deputy Director, Anti-Slavery Australia, University of Technology Sydney. With China’s western-most province of Xinjiang being turned into a mass internment camp, last night’s ABC Four Corners program reported on the Chinese Communist Party’s alleged plans to put up to a million detained...
Wouldn’t it be great if every dollar we put towards a purchase from a company, we knew it wasn’t just causing zero harm but, also going towards something beneficial for people or the planet? Well, there’s actually a credible certification and community called B Corp to show that a business is using business as a...
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Author: Joy Onasch, Business and Industry Program Manager, Toxics Use Reduction Institute, University of Massachusetts Lowell. The winter holidays are a busy time for many businesses, including retail stores, grocers, liquor stores – and dry cleaners. People pull out special-occasion clothes made of silk, satin or...
PRESS RELEASE Fashion has an influence on the most remote corners of humanity and our planetary home. We don’t exist in a detached bubble but instead, we are all the very architects who together help weave the vast and colorful web that connects us all. And from what better position than ours to adopt a...
As the world consumes its way to an environmental apocalypse, it has become obvious that humankind will have to reassess the way it uses its resources. One way we have come to cope with this challenge is through innovations and sustainable design. The intention of sustainable design is to “eliminate negative environmental impact completely through skillful,...
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia (MBFWA) has come and gone and from an industry insider’s perspective (I work in Public Relations for my daily grind) I could sense a shift in how designers, buyers, fashion media and publicists were looking at the future of our industry – this follows the news of the Swedish Fashion...
Investment enables Amsterdam-based company to launch a 100% recycled pair of jeans PRESS RELEASE AMSTERDAM – DOEN Participaties and the Sustainable Economy Participation Fund for North-Holland (PDENH) are investing one million euros in Dutch sustainable denim brand MUD Jeans. The investment will enable the only circular jeans brand in the world to develop a pair...
A week or so ago, UK-based brand Missguided (which also markets to Australia now) announced the launch of bikinis for £1 (approx $1.80 AUD). Now, are we really surprised that the tacky, fast-fashion online brand Missguided are basically giving away clothes and using z-listed celebrities to promote them on Instagram? Well actually…yes I am. This...
Sustainable barefoot shoe brand Vivobarefoot has launched ‘Ababa’ a new Soul of Africa range made in Ethiopia in collaboration with non-profit organisation Desert Flower Foundation. Soul of Africa, a social enterprise founded by the sixth generation shoemaker the late Lance Clark, facilitates the provision of employment, knowledge transfer and income generation through shoemaking, creating sustainable supply...
Australia has a fashion problem. More than 500,000 tonnes of clothing waste is sent to landfill each year. But a new way of recycling could redirect some of our unwanted textiles from polluting the environment, by repurposing cotton waste into anything from new clothes to prosthetic knees. Developed by our team at Deakin University, where...