Estethica was founded by the British Fashion Council in September 2006, to promote sustainable fashion at the heart of London Fashion Week. This season, for the first time, Estethica designers will be integrated throughout the London Fashion Week Designer Showrooms at Somerset House, acknowledged by an Estethica tag.
Labor activists threw a spotlight on the high cost of cheap fashion by highlighting the plight of Bangladesh’s garment workers at New York Fashion Week last Thursday.
Vivienne Westwood trading in fashion for the fight against climate change, well, sort of, with her latest initiative, Save the Arctic.
This past weekend, musician Pharrell Williams made a huge announcement at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, whilst the City revels in it’s biggest fashion event of the year, New York Fashion Week.
The latest collection from Way It Should Be was launched recently at an elaborate affair in New York City. Behind the new line is Hassan Pierre, who first launched the luxury women’s demi-couture label in 2008 with the promise of a flourishing “ethical fashion” brand.
In a recent interview H&M’s head of sustainability, Helena Helmersson, told Reuters that she believes there is no conflict between the company’s mission of selling cheap clothing whilst looking out for the environment and ensuring ethical wages and working conditions for its suppliers.
You might think you can trust globally-recognised brand names when it comes to safety, but children’s clothing and shoes made by many of them have been found to contain harmful chemicals.
New Zealand designer Karen Walker is using her new sunglasses campaign, “Visible” to draw attention to sustainable development in Africa. “Visible” was shot by lensman Derek Henderson for her Spring 2013 collection, Walker didn’t just employ the talents of artisans in Kenya, she had them model the looks, too.
On 24th April 2013, 1133 people were killed and over 2500 people were injured when the Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The catastrophes in our fashion supply chain continue. Fashion Revolution Day says enough is enough.
Burberry announced on Tuesday its decision to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout its global supply chain products by 2020.