When it comes to knitwear, cotton can be used as an alternative to both animal and synthetic fibres. As a plant, cotton is biodegradable, and as a fashion fibre, not borne of animal cruelty. But is it sustainable?

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…

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.

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.

The recent protests demanding for extended Eid holidays may seem like one-off, even minor incidents but in actuality they are symbolic of wider issues.

The creators of cactus leather, Desserto, have recently released an early stage life cycle assessment. This is exciting, because it means we can begin to understand how Desserto compares to other materials.

Faunalytics — an organisation which conducts research and shares knowledge relating to the suffering of non-human animals — has recently released analysis of 15 years worth of legal wildlife import data from the United States.

Independent polling commissioned by Collective Fashion Justice in collaboration with Animal Justice Party MP Andy Meddick’s office found that the majority of people in the City of Melbourne support a ban on fur.

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?

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…

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.

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.

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:

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.