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...
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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)...
Major shoe brands finally address size and gender inclusivity
Heels, pumps, and other ‘feminine’ footwear are often restricted to smaller sizing. But with increased pressure from consumers, the biggest brands on the market are working to include shoe lovers from all walks of life. Feet are funny things. Some love them, some really hate them. They’re big and small; wide...
Zara makes party dresses from pollution
The fast fashion giant has partnered with LanzaTech on a capsule collection featuring fabric made from recycled steel plant carbon emissions. If you read about H&M’s shift to sustainability last month, like me, you may be feeling somewhat relieved that fast fashion appears to have heard our unceasing cries...
Political community ‘Coup de Cake’ returns to promote mental wellness
Coup de Cake are returning with ‘Cake Confessionals’ to spread awareness on understanding peace of mind - one iced bake at a time. Coup de Cake - a political community forged in icing - are teaming up with artist agency hen house to bring their ‘Cake Confessionals’ icing workshop to East London. Using vegan cakes provided by the community, attendees will gather to decorate the bakes. The theme for this weekend's...
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,...
Harry Styles’ beauty brand reignites discussion of modern masculinity
Not one to turn down a purple feather boa or a pearl drop earring, Harry Styles’ new beauty line, ‘Pleasing’, has reignited questions of sexuality and gender that constantly swirl around him. But must a man’s foray into makeup and skirts always be the subject of such social debate? On Monday night, ‘Dazed’ magazine uploaded a photo of Harry Styles to its Instagram, hands on hips and straddling a...
