Clothing with values
Choosing to be environmentally aware and wanting to wear sustainable clothing is admirable. However, you can only make ethical choices if the information that you receive is reliable. And this is where the scourge of greenwashing muddies the waters. Our collective shift of focus towards safe-guarding the future of our planet is having a huge …
You’ve probably heard the term fast fashion, and if you love a High Street clothing bargain, you’re most likely encouraging it. But what exactly is fast fashion and why is it getting so much bad press? What is fast fashion? Fast fashion is when clothing manufacturers take a new design, copy it, make it and …
The EU has announced plans for a fast fashion crackdown. Why is this necessary? Did you know that as little as 1% of all the clothing produced across our planet is recycled? It’s a shockingly low percentage, but things get worse when you look closely at the textile industry. The quantity of fabric that each …
The sustainable clothing movement is a minefield of newly-coined terms. We are concerned about the environmental impact of what we buy and wear. We are advised to check the carbon footprint of items in our wardrobe and to let ethical choices guide our purchases. We recycle and upcycle, check linings for the Fair Trade Mark …
Fair trade clothing Looking for organic fair trade clothing? We at Sustainable Clothing will only recommend and partners with suppliers who lead the world in sustainable fashion production. We think it is extremely important that the fashion industry plays fair across the whole supply chain for everyone’s sake. One of our favourite manufacturers is Fair …
We hear a lot about environmentally-friendly manufacturing, Fair Trade principles and our responsibilities as ethical consumers. But what does Fair Trade clothing mean in practice? To ensure that your clothes are sweatshop-labour free and contributing toward improved labour conditions for textile and factory workers, we recommend suppliers that have partnered with the Fair Wear Foundation (FWF). The partnerships are …
We at Sustainable Clothing are interested in the process of making clothes. We talk a lot about the problems with the fast fashion industry supply chain, sure, but we also try to highlight and celebrate the artisanship that goes into well-made clothing, because well-made clothing is just that: an art form. Whether it’s Katy Perry’s …
The consequences of fast fashion Unfortunately the globalisation of the fashion industry has had a fairly devastating impact on the face of our planet today. Many of us who love our clothes are completely oblivious to the dark side of the fashion industry. For starters there’s the fact that seemingly innocuous ‘natural’ fibres such as …
WHY BAMBOO? Bamboo is a remarkable and highly versatile natural resource. Using it to make bamboo clothing is just one of its many possible applications. Bamboo has been utilised in Asia for many centuries in a wide range of uses, such as in cooking, construction, transport, and medicine – as well as textiles. Only relatively …
The Fashion Blender blog was created by sustainability and eco-friendly entrepreneur, Kiri Yanchenko, and posts intriguing musings on fashion, design, art, photography and lifestyle. Kiri’s latest company, Amperna, produces probiotic skincare for sensitive skin and it is generating great word-of-mouth momentum and positive press with its environmentally-friendly purpose and the efficacy of its products. Amperna …