Narcisco Rodriquez ♥ Bottletop. Green Carpet Challenge founder, Livia Firth, awarded New York City designer, Narcisco Rodriguez, with the “Green Carpet Challenge” brand mark on Thursday for his work with Bottletop, a fair-trade label that employs artisans to create accessories using upcycled materials.
Fashion-conscious shoppers are being urged to help reduce the £140 million pound worth of clothes that are being binned every year. To improve the impact that the clothing industry has on the environment, #LoveYourClothes, which is a Zero Waste Scotland initiative have teamed up with John Lewis for a series of sustainable fashion events in Scotland.
Stella McCartney is the first global fashion brand to join the Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, an international coalition of non-governmental organizations, businesses, artisans, producers, and harvesters dedicated to the conservation of threatened wildlife while fostering economic and social opportunities in rural communities.
To celebrate this month’s Earth Day on the 22nd April, the Stella McCartney brand announced that it will be joining the likes of Zara & H&M on Canopy’s Fashion Loved by Forest Campaign which promotes not using endangered forests for the production of viscose.
When thinking of the uses for sugar, an image of your morning cuppa might come to mind. New research now aims to change the way we see sugar by using it to make clothing! Best of all, the process is much better for the planet.
The new Springbok rugby jersey was launched last night at an exclusive event in Cape Town.
For those who follow the fashion industry it’s impossible not to notice that a fashion revolution is happening and it centres on eco fashion and sustainable clothing.
H&M and Zara are against deforestation. The world’s largest fashion retailers – Zara represented by it’s holding company, Inditex – have pledged to develop new sourcing strategies to eliminate the use of endangered-forest fibers in all of their rayon and viscose clothing.
The rise of eco fashion is everywhere, from designer vegan leather products to a range of high-end sustainable clothing lines that are ethically sourced and produced.
The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh is a result of textile companies being under increasing pressure to ensure that their products are ethically produced, ethically sourced and purchased from factories that have humane working conditions as well as adequate safety regulations.