The world forgot about the 33 million people displaced by floods in Pakistan after a week. Yet now everything is cancelled and stands still for 12 days to mourn a 96 year old multi-millionaire.
So, Kardashian Barker’s ‘sustainable’ collection campaign for @boohoo is currently listed on their homepage alongside an ad for ‘PU season’ - almost 500 pieces designed with virgin synthetic plastic. You just couldn’t make it up. 😅#greenwashing#fastfashion#boohoo
#slowfashion thought of the day: Sustainable fashion isn’t about buying all the things. It’s about TREASURING all the things. Love, rewear, repair, repeat! #sustainability
Thank you @SusannahJaffer and @zerrincom for this feature. It is humbling to be on this list with the other amazing women in the world of styling and sustainability in Singapore. #thankyou#singapore#sustainability https://t.co/qkSLt9bEAF
And as for the argument a lot of Asians have told me, that if we didn’t buy fast fashion those garment workers wouldn’t have a job… that is truly the highest form of classist defense I’ve ever heard…
“Another lady said: ‘I worked at the same factory and they deducted £70 from my salary.’ A third said: ‘I was working at that factory. I challenged the owner… He threatened me in the middle of the floor, saying: I’ll beat you here..." accounts of garment workers in Leicester.
The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not.
I, for one, did not see it coming that a woman whose £500k branding deal is built on the backs of garment workers paid £3.50 an hour, might have horrific views on poverty and social mobility.
This year I want us to stop asking ‘what if people can’t afford sustainably made clothes?’ and start asking ‘WHY can’t people afford sustainably made clothes?’ It’s the same reason garment workers are paid peanuts - hoarding of wealth and power in the name of capitalism.
Basically BCLEAN ticks all your boxes ✔️
Thanks for this great review @susannahjaffer!
Visit @zerrin_com for conscious fashion choices with a design twist. One of our fave brands that is sustainably made in Africa and India is @maishaconcept 💜
@AjaSaysHello Exactly. And fast fashion gets us hooked while we’re young. I did a talk for some 10 year old kids in a school last year about fashion/sustainability and it’s crazy how brand conscious they were and how they idolised so many of these companies already.