Plant-based fashion is finally having its moment
A major shift in clothing manufacture is underway, fronted by a surge in the number of brands experimenting with next-generation ‘livestock-free’ replacements for conventional animal-based materials. It’s common knowledge that fast fashion has long-dominated the style landscape, for the affordable and straightforward way in which it enables consumers to keep...
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Exclusive – Cassie Quinn encourages a holistic approach to fashion
The founder of a fashion research studio that focuses on using regenerative materials and systems of production believes that new innovations can only bring about change if we educate society about why they’re necessary. We spoke with her about the work she’s doing to achieve this. ‘It’s no longer enough...
How to be stylish this year with the Earth in mind
Here are a few ways to ensure that your love of fashion and beauty isn’t contributing to the climate crisis in 2022. New year, less buying into industries renowned for being major culprits of ecological breakdown. A week into 2022 and I’ve no doubt you’re dead set on sticking...
Fast fashion brand SHEIN appears to be greenwashing
Fast fashion giant ‘SHEIN’ creates cheap clothes in thousands of new styles - daily. Pressure from consumers has encouraged the brand to hire a head of sustainability this week. But for these kinds of unethical and profoundly exploitative business models, appealing to the ‘green’ market means little for its...
TikTok has revitalised the fashion influencer model
Transforming the way we approach style both online and IRL, Gen Z’s app du jour has fostered an entirely new community for discourse, experimentation, and criticism. If there’s one statistic demonstrating quite how drastically TikTok has become entwined in our lives since arriving full force on the scene just...
The hidden world of wage theft in fashion
The pandemic held a magnifying glass to the ingrained exploitation of garment workers across the globe. While the issue is far from resolved, the recent success of campaigns against it signifies change is afoot. Earlier this year, an investigation conducted by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC)...
Italy approves ban on fur production
Amid a growing movement by Italian fashion houses to ditch the material, senators have voted to close down the country’s ten remaining mink farms within six months.
The time has finally come. Over the past few years, almost every top designer from Chanel to Prada has shed animal fur from their collections.
Sugaring the pill, the state of California has outright banned it, Queen Elizabeth II has
Marcus Rashford links with Burberry for his next youth-focused project
The National Literacy Trust has reported that over 400,000 children in the UK do not have access to books. Marcus Rashford, a 23-year-old footballer for Manchester United, has teamed up with the nation’s most iconic fashion brand to change that. Giving back to the community is part of Marcus Rashford’s modus operandi. Just when you thought he might enjoy a hiatus after successfully securing free school meals for 1.3 million children,...
Are major fashion brands contributing to deforestation in the Amazon?
New research into the industry’s complex global supply chains has revealed that a number of well-known companies could be indirectly spurring the rainforest’s destruction. Post-Cop26, it’s no surprise that fashion – notorious for its substantial environmental impact – has been in the limelight. Yet while it’s undoubtedly progressive that the industry is no longer able to conceal the level at which it’s contributing to the climate crisis, news of its...
This desert is a dumping ground for fast fashion’s leftovers
Deep within Chile’s arid Atacama, new dunes are forming – not of sand, but of thousands of tonnes of unsold clothing from across the globe. By now, I’m sure you’re already well-aware that the world is literally drowning in clothes. Though recycling programmes have existed for decades now, with little means of recycling jeans or dresses, of the 100 billion garments bought annually, 92 million tonnes of them get thrown...
