Emma Hakansson and Sel Burek Emma Hakansson and Sel Burek

10 reasons to help ban fur

Right now, around the world, there are calls to ban the sale of fur, and the farming of fur. Here are 10 reasons to support the efforts to move past farming and trapping animals for the sake of fashion…

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Emma Hakansson Emma Hakansson

5 reasons fashion is a feminist issue

Despite the many feminist slogan t-shirts you can buy in stores, the fashion industry is far from championing the rights of women. In fact, it is an extremely oppressive industry in many ways, impacting women all across the supply chain.

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Abdourahamane Ly Abdourahamane Ly

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.

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Emma Hakansson Emma Hakansson

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:

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Planet Emma Hakansson Planet Emma Hakansson

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.

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