Fast fashion: an industry built on exploitation
Fashion can signify individual expression and has artistic merit, but, it has, since the industrial revolution, relied on extreme exploitation of enslaved people and then wage workers. It is an industry that exploits class, race, gender and species in pursuit of never ending profits.
Fashion activism on Invasion Day
Today, on Invasion Day, as a fashion-orientated organisation we thought we would share information on how the way you dress, and your fashion activism can support Aboriginal people today and always. We’re keeping it short and sweet, so you can get onto the work:
The carbon cost of our leather goods, calculated
When we’re talking sustainability in fashion, we need to be using data to drive our discussion. Our new calculations of carbon and cow skin leather products shows us yet again, that a care for environmental wellbeing is not aligned with leather production and consumption.