Fashion Revolution Week was founded in response to the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse that killed at least 1,133 people in 2013. This year, it runs from April 19-25. Learn more here. Fashion Revolution Week 2021 The last year has shown us that desperate times often lead to desperate measures, even in the world of …
Cost is a huge barrier to access, but especially in ethical fashion. On the eve of Fashion Revolution Week 2019, we should be careful as advocates to remember that income plays a huge role in our ability to purchase ethical and sustainable goods.
The True Cost premiered five years ago and I recently re-watched it. Here is what has changed in the fast fashion industry, where there’s cause for hope, what The True Cost misses, and ethical fashion advocacy that really works, plus a call-to-action.
Do you think ethical fashion is boring and all one note? I’m sharing 13 style genres and 45 sustainable and slow fashion brands for women that prove otherwise.
This post contains affiliate links I’ve been eyeing all the wonderful denim jackets out this season, most of them inspired by classic Levi’s and the vintage denim trend. But I simply haven’t worn my jean jackets when I’ve owned them in the past because I’m not into the Canadian Tuxedo thing and the …
Thanks to Justina at Smockwalker Vintage for providing goods to DIY. The last post in my #Haulternative series! See the embroidered blouse and the fringed denim. I had originally intended to cover up a few small stains on this blouse with Indigo, but there is no indigo to be found in this town! I ended …
Denim provided by Smockwalker Vintage. See yesterday’s #Haulternative post here. This season’s fringed denim trend is screaming for a DIY. I mean, there’s literally no reason to go buy someone else’s (likely a sweatshop worker’s) upcycling project when there’s such an abundance of denim on the secondhand market. Justina at Smockwalker Vintage provided these groovy …
Blouse provided and embroidered by Justina at Smockwalker Vintage. It’s Fashion Revolution Week! This year I’m posting three days of DIYs inspired by Fashion Revolution’s #haulternative prompt… #Haulternative: the sustainable version of a shopping haul, spotlighting dearly loved, vintage, secondhand, swapped, rented, and upcycled goods in an effort to show that fashion is about more …
Fashion Revolution, the world’s biggest ethical fashion action, takes place this year from April 23rd-29th. Fashion Revolution was founded by two fashion designers after Rana Plaza, a massive garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed due to faulty architecture and safety compliance failures, killing more than 1,134 people and injuring 2,500. Since then, components of the …
Welcome to the Fashion Revolution! Fashion Revolution was founded in direct response to the Rana Plaza Garment Factory collapse that killed over 1,100 people on April 24th, 2013. This week, we remember the victims of this and related garment factory tragedies and use our voices to demand justice for garment workers around the world. The …