This year’s Fashion Revolution Week is focused on making the fashion industry and governments recognize the interconnection between human rights and the rights of nature.
During Fashion Revolution Week, Fashion Revolution activates and engages consumers, policy makers and professionals everywhere to get fashion companies and brands to provide much needed answers to questions on pressing issues.
Read MoreAs fast fashion speeds up its production rate each year, with some online retailers launching a few thousand new styles per month, sustainability efforts of smaller fashion brands may seem to have little impact. Each year around 40 million tonnes of textile waste ends up on landfills or is incinerated. Wouldn’t it be amazing if instead it could just decompose and go back to nature?
Read MoreLeather is one of the most controversial fabrics in fashion.
Animal welfare was one of the first aspects of sustainability to gain a lot of attention. And since it became general knowledge that cows and beef are big contributors to our joint Green House Gas emissions, the attention has only grown.
Many consumers and brands have decided to put a ban on leather and exclude it from their closets and collections. But what are the alternatives for leather?
And are they any better?
In this article we provide a review of pros and cons of leather and some of the faux leathers.
Read MoreThe reasons for getting certified in textile industry are many, and the same can be said for the number of different certifications. Some might suit your company better than other.
Read our overview of the most common certifications used in the fashion and lifestyle industry below.
Read MoreIf we are to succeed as an industry, we need a whole army of sustainability delegates placed in fashion companies all around the world. An in-house CSR expert would not only mean shorter lines of communication. It would also mean an easier and more natural integration of CSR and sustainability. When CSR is represented in a company through a trusted employee, it doesn’t just pop up once in a while when meeting with external consultants. CSR is now present in the day to day life, at the coffee machine, during lunch breaks, meetings and more. As such it oozes into a company’s culture and the unconscious level of employees’ workflows.
Read MoreRegenerative agriculture, or farming as it is also called, has very quickly become a buzzword, especially in the fashion industry. Several outlets haves even dubbed it the future of fashion. But what is it, and how is it different from the agricultural practices we already know?
Read More“We never use the word ‘sustainable’ because the term is impossible to define. ‘What does it mean to be sustainable”? Bettina Jensen, CEO and Brand Manager at Gai+Lisva, asks the rhetorical question when we meet for a talk about the company, she started in 2008.
Read MoreIt is not going to make a huge difference to our world, if we are turning lousy T-shirts into organic lousy T-shirts. We would still be using natural resources, but only to produce something that can be worn – maybe 8 times and then it is twisted, peeling or simply torn.
Read MoreIt seems, that no matter what we choose, it will not really be good enough, because all materials have good and bad attributes to them. I will try to narrow it down to polyester and describe the good and bad sides of that fiber.
Read MoreBut what I am also seeing is that this snowball is becoming an avalanche of requirements, paperwork, mapping, documentation, policies, certifications, that are simply just burying everyone. Requirements where it seems, that they do not know the reality of their supply chain. Requirements where it is actually an aspiration rather than an actual requirement.
I will explain further……
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