Charlotte Brownlee Charlotte Brownlee

Recovo is working to reduce fashion’s waste problem

When fabrics are cut up, parts stitched into clothing, a whopping 35% is wasted. 85% of textiles head to landfill each year. So, what can we do to prevent problems like this from happening? How can we effectively repurpose leftover fabric? Queue Recovo…

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Bella Holgate Bella Holgate

Microfibre pollution in fashion: are synthetics all to blame?

Most discussion and literature on plastic pollution and microfibres assumes that the problem is largely due to synthetic fabrics. Yet, a 2020 study found that despite the domination of synthetic fibres in current global production, they accounted for only 8% of microfibre pollution.

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Unique Vance Unique Vance

How to build a community pressure campaign

Collective Fashion Justice board member and Vegan Voices of Color founder Unique Vance walks us through how to start pressure campaigning in order to create a more just world.

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Emma Hakansson and Sel Burek Emma Hakansson and Sel Burek

Zoonotic disease risks in fashion

Unsurprisingly, our fears around the spread of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19, or even worse, continue to rise. As a total ethics fashion organisation, we’re asking, what responsibility does the fashion industry have to help prevent zoonotic disease spread?

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Emma Hakansson and Sel Burek Emma Hakansson and Sel Burek

10 reasons to help ban fur

Right now, around the world, there are calls to ban the sale of fur, and the farming of fur. Here are 10 reasons to support the efforts to move past farming and trapping animals for the sake of fashion…

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Emma Hakansson Emma Hakansson

5 reasons fashion is a feminist issue

Despite the many feminist slogan t-shirts you can buy in stores, the fashion industry is far from championing the rights of women. In fact, it is an extremely oppressive industry in many ways, impacting women all across the supply chain.

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Abdourahamane Ly Abdourahamane Ly

Fast fashion: an industry built on exploitation

Fashion can signify individual expression and has artistic merit, but, it has, since the industrial revolution, relied on extreme exploitation of enslaved people and then wage workers. It is an industry that exploits class, race, gender and species in pursuit of never ending profits.

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Emma Hakansson Emma Hakansson

Fashion activism on Invasion Day

Today, on Invasion Day, as a fashion-orientated organisation we thought we would share information on how the way you dress, and your fashion activism can support Aboriginal people today and always. We’re keeping it short and sweet, so you can get onto the work:

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Planet Emma Hakansson Planet Emma Hakansson

The carbon cost of our leather goods, calculated

When we’re talking sustainability in fashion, we need to be using data to drive our discussion. Our new calculations of carbon and cow skin leather products shows us yet again, that a care for environmental wellbeing is not aligned with leather production and consumption.

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