The issues
As much as there is to love about fashion, the industry that creates our clothing, shoes and accessories is often deeply problematic and harmful. Here, we outline some of the most serious issues taking place in the fashion industry today. By sharing information, both the fashion industry and consumers can consider their contribution to these problems, and their capacity to create positive change.
Non-humans
Billions of animals suffer and die for the sake of fashion annually.
Cattle, sheep, ducks, minks, foxes, crocodiles and a plethora of other species lose their freedoms and their lives in unethical, unsustainable systems which treat them like objects, not living beings.
Image: Farm Transparency Project
Humans
We are all animals. Human animals suffer in fashion supply chains, especially when working in poor conditions, harming non-human animals.
Non-human animal derived supply chains are violent, not only to those non-humans killed within them, but to the humans made to act unnaturally cruelly, who are commodified and made to suffer themselves, too.
Planet
We all, across species, share a common home. The fashion industry cannot continue to pillage the planet. Unsustainable fashion for profit is a crisis.
Non-human animal derived materials are the most ecologically destructive of all. We must move beyond them should we see a sustainable, and even regenerative fashion future. We must also change our patterns of consumption, and how we use what we have.