Think you are doing the right deed by donating clothes to charity shops? I would re-think that idea
Of recently I watched a documentary episode from Compass on the ABC. Let me tell you I learnt some interesting information on how...
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Politics
Fashion is often used in political campaigns to activist movements. Clothing can be used to highlight issues, as a signpost for our view on an issue or as a form of engagement with culture. The way we dress could also be used to suggest authority, moral value, wealth and status. Fashion can maintain and deepen inequality, but it also has the potential to challenge power and highlight inequality or alternative viewpoints. What one wears, how one wears it and when one wears it constitutes expressions of degrees of social freedoms and influences.
Ethics
Ethical Fashion seeks to create non-exploitative working conditions. This means paying the workers a good wage and creating an appreciative, non-discriminative, safe and hygienic environment. It is about designing and manufacturing clothes in a way that cares for people and communities, making sure of fair treatment from cotton seed to the finished garment.
Sustainability
Sustainable fashion is focused on the environment. It is about ensuring that the industry does not contribute to environmental degradation. Specifically, this means the way textiles are made, the materials used, the quality standards applied, upcycled/ recycled materials, and any packaging or branding. It is also focusing on energy-saving initiatives, treatment of wastewater, microplastics and pollutants and offset any environmental damage.
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The environmental impact of our Jeans
Americans like to buy denim so much that ordinary consumers buy four pairs of jeans each year. In China's denim hub Xintang province, 300...
The Social Studio Scrubbing Up!
The Social Studio (TSS), a non-for-profit organisation, that has created a safe environment of belonging to cause awareness and create...
Knitting for the first time
Instead of sitting around watching Netflix and baking until there is nothing left in the pantry, I thought right now is a pretty good...
Fashion trends
Trends? #unfollow HISTORY The first thing to acknowledge is that the concept of a trend, or the idea of changing your look regularly, has...
Ethical and Sustainable Fashion
Interview with Crystal Thomas of North, non-profit company North is an Australian non-profit funding mission homewares and a clothing...
How is it possible to be ethical, sustainable and political in fashion
Interview with Ella Noah Bancroft , an Australian born artist, storyteller, director, mentor and founder of “The Returning” and Yhi...
Tips on sustainable fashion
Australians have a great appetite for shopping. Our per capita consumption has exceeded that of most other countries. This is nothing to...
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