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Why I Couldn't Care Less About London Fashion Week
Being a 25 year old fashion designer, you'd think I'd regard London Fashion Week as one of the most important points in any year. The truth is that it's about as exciting for my sustainable fashion...
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PiC Style: The Ultimate Capsule Collection
On the BBC radio 4 this month, the CEO of Ethical Fashion Forum Tamsin Lejeune commented that "if we were really going to look at the single thing that would have the most effect on minimising the...
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Why The World Needs Craft
Imagine a world where everything that is exchanged, bought, used and consumed is made by machine, on an assembly line. Where every item is judged only on its functionality, valued for its utility, and...
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What Wartime Thrift Can Teach Us About Fashion Sustainability
This October, I'll be speaking at Imperial War Museum North on fashion and sustainability with journalist and author Lucy Siegle. The museum's latest exhibition Fashion on the Ration: 1940s Street...
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Makers House: What Point Is Burberry Trying To Make?
It's all Greek to me as I enter the Burberry Makers House venue via a heavily scented and clay sculpture-adorned corridor (reminiscent of Aesop - the fragrances, and the Greek story teller) by Thomas...
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Sustainability And Fashion Education: The Next Generation
During the last decade I spent six years working for mainstream fashion labels, my frustration growing as my awareness of the industry's lack of ethics increased. One black Monday in particular sticks...
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Not Just A Pretty Face: Bonaveri Introduces Its Unique, Biodegradable Mannequin
Italian company Bonaveri's new creation doesn't just look good. It's also the world's first biodegradable mannequin. That makes it unique and pretty irresitible. CEO Andrea Bonaveri enthuses why. Our...
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Good As Fairtrade Gold
As a nation built on Bake Off and a good brew, the UK is pretty familiar with Fairtrade-certified food products such as coffee, tea and sugar but what about Fairtrade-certified gold? Alongside its...
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A Revolution In Clothing Recycling Is On The Horizon
Consider yourself a savvy sustainable fashionista? Fantastic! You probably already donate your unworn clothes to charity or drop them off at the in-store collection too? That is if you're not selling...
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Do We Really Care About Who Makes Our Clothes?
A few weeks ago, I was chatting with an expert who invests to create change in the fashion supply chain. I was telling her about Not My Style, the app that my co-founders and I have been developing....
View ArticleWhere Are The Disabled Women In H&M's New Advert?
The new H&M advert is being praised for its depiction of real women - which I think is great - but they are missing a huge opportunity to include disabled women. Marketing money should certainly be...
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Introducing Annie Lennox To Receive The Fashion 4 Development Award 2016
For me fashion has always been a feminist issue - not only because clothes can empower you, but also because the clothes we wear are most likely being sown and made by other women - so we carry their...
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Learning From Laundry
Laundry practices, clothing design and resource consumption has been the focus of my research over the past eight years. While laundry is a pretty mundane chore that most of us don't like to spend too...
View ArticleBlack Women Are Being Ripped Off By The Black Hair Care Industry
As a Black woman who is serious about my hair maintenance routine, I have spent untold thousands, likely in the six figures over the course of my life to maintain my hair slayage. From catching...
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Fast Fashion: Changing The Direction Of The Juggernaut
My recent article on Fast Fashion - Can it be Sustainable? explored fast fashion, sustainability, and the growing stand-off between two fashion industry camps - fast fashion retailers outwardly...
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Sustainable Educated Consumerism
We are personally responsible for our actions, and in order to improve our world we need to accept that responsibility and change our actions. Since childhood, I saw the idea of reusability first...
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On The Origin Of Clothes: Storytelling Behind Fashion
Take a look at the clothes you are wearing right now. Do you know who made them? Were they sewn by a man or a woman? Which part of the world did the person come from? What view do they see from their...
View ArticleSeven Of The Best Barbers and Male Grooming Services
Looking great unfortunately comes at a cost. Whether you're pounding away on the treadmill for hours each week, or pumping the weights, feeling on top form doesn't come easy gentlemen. On top of...
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How To Perfect The Lingerie As Outerwear Trend
The trend to wear lingerie as outerwear is growing momentum. With Vogue showing us how to perfect the lingerie as outerwear trend and with the most recent lingerie inspired catwalks, it got me...
View ArticleAge Does Not Matter
On October 1st I attended at Oxo Bargehouse, London, the last day of 'Age Does Not Matter', a festival organized over a period of four days, from 28th September, by The Age of No Retirement, a...
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