Rachel Santos made fashion history on Wednesday when her upcycled bucket purse took home the prize for “Timberland Best Green Handbag” at the Seventh Annual Independent Handbag Design Awards.
Shocked by the price of Vivienne Westwood’s high-end clothing? You’re supposed to, says the legendary British designer.
Two dozen of Britain’s leading apparel retailers, charity shops, and clothing recyclers have pledged to measure and report the waste, water, and carbon footprints of their wares, with an eye on reducing their environmental impact by 2020, reports Ecouterre.
Japanese retailer Muji is planning to start an eco friendly natural dyeing plant in Cambodia. The lifestyle brand that sells a large variety of household and consumer goods including home textiles and clothing for men and women has been promoting an eco friendly dyeing process with natural materials since 2012.
Ethical fashion e-tailers, HELPSY was founded on the belief that design-forward, cutting-edge fashion can have a social impact, 100% of the time.
Ethical fashion is a serious issue and needs to be at the forefront of consumers minds when making purchasing decisions. The building collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,127 people and has been deemed the deadliest disaster in the history of the garment industry.
Lily Cole has launched an eco-friendly jewellery collection, creating a line of pendants, rings and bracelets. The collection, launched last week in partnership with stylistpick.com, is made using Amazonian wild rubber.
The Espirit Recycled collection was created by recycling its own manufacturing fabric into recycled fabric, so as to reduce textile waste, save water and carbon emissions and to promote a more sustainable lifestyle.
Threadflip and Twice are recommerce boutiques that allow women an online space to clean out their closest and then sell their no longer used items to the etailers who then go on to resell the items on their online shops for a major discount.
Outraged by Abercrombie & Fitch’s CEO Mike Jeffries’ commentary about discouraging unattractive people from buying their clothes, writer Greg Karber devised a genius protest against the self-declared snobby brand.