SHIRINGA: Fashion regenerating Amazonia by Collective Fashion Justice

In August of last year I flew twenty hours, drove another four hours, swapped to an off-road car to drive another six hours, then travelled by water on a peke peke for four hours: by then I had made it from my home in Australia to the Awajún community of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. I […]

The Hot or Cool Report

This morning, during our November Carbon Literacy Training for Fashion and Retail, we used The Hot or Cool Report: Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable: Resizing Fashion for a Fair Consumption Space.  This report: Links changes in fashion lifestyles to measurable impacts on climate change, in line with the 1.5-degree target of the Paris Agreement Analyses fashion lifestyle […]

Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16

Record numbers of business representatives and lobbyists had access to the UN’s latest biodiversity talks, analysis shows. In total 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which ended in disarray and without significant progress on a number of key issues including nature funding, monitoring biodiversity loss and work on reducing environmentally harmful business […]

Regenerative Fashion and Just Transition Report

Read the report Watch the 18 min video that  accompanies the Report here Where are the green shoots of a Just Transition for the industry? This report by Safia Minney produced with Middlesex University and funded by ACCESS (Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science) presents alternative approaches from the perspective of key suppliers in Bangladesh […]

Kering Pounded by Luxury Slowdown, Warns on Profit​

Sales at the French group fell 16 percent in the third quarter as a market-wide downturn hit hard. At flagship brand Gucci, where revenue fell 25 percent, management is exploring store closures while betting on a revamped handbag programme to jump start demand. Read Here

The Circular Fashion Innovation Network (CFIN)

The UK fashion and textile industry stands at a pivotal moment, faced with extraordinary opportunities and tough challenges. To accelerate the UK towards a circular fashion ecosystem by 2032, The Institute of Positive Fashion has spent the last year engaging with industry stakeholders, gathering insights and working on initiatives to support this ambitious goal. This […]

Seedling – Making Carbon Accounting easy for Fashion SMEs

Delighted to talk to Blair Spowart, Co-Founder of Seedling about their App and an easy and clever way to measure carbon footprint over your business’s scopes 1,2 and 3. Currently working with one hundred fashion companies, they really have taken a lot of the work, time and expense out of the process, costing only £70 […]