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 …
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 …
In an effort to vote with your dollars, you may likely have come across terms like “ethical clothing” or “ethical fashion”, and discussions about “shopping ethically”. But what does “ethical” mean? How can you know if what you’re buying is supporting your values? Ah, the dilemma of the “ethical shopper”. Let us here unpack what …
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 …