People who want to buy wool, and who theoretically oppose animal cruelty may have heard about the Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) or the ZQ wool certification. These certifications claim their wool ensures freedom from pain fear and distress. But is this accurate, or a deception?

Vegetable tanned leather is often positioned as more environmentally friendly than both chrome tanned and synthetic leather, but the truth is, a lot of the information that circulates about vegetable tanned leather isn’t accurate. Let’s bust five myths you might hear when it comes to this material.

This bill will require the City’s Director of Environmentally Preferable Purchasing to report details on the supply chain and source of agency-purchased textile goods. Additionally, this bill will establish a task force which will identify costs of textile purchases, such as impact to the environment, and poor safety of laborers in textile production. Recommendations to improve purchasing will be made.

“It’s hard to say what was the most confronting thing about working on the farm… we are brought up with the death and abuse of animals. We are taught it’s natural, it needs to be done. We are taught their dollar value…”

It’s very positive to see in FOUR PAWS’ recent commissioned surveying, shared with CFJ, that 50% of adults have changed their fashion purchasing habits since COVID-19 hit, and particularly, to see how positive these changes are…

We cannot sustain the fast pace of fashion which is destroying our planet, and just the same, we cannot sustain injustice and harm. So, here’s how we can shop in a way that is caring, not harmful.

Are cradle to gate assessments like the Higg Material Sustainability Index helpful? Or is it to the grave, or nothing at all?

You’ve seen it all over the news and on your social feed, but you feel overwhelmed. That’s completely fair. Let’s break it down.

With leather alternatives on the rise, Gucci has recently jumped on board by releasing an exclusive vegan leather shoe range, made with their own material. Let’s unpack what this means for the brand and industry.

When it comes to knitwear, cotton can be used as an alternative to both animal and synthetic fibres. As a plant, cotton is biodegradable, and as a fashion fibre, not borne of animal cruelty. But is it sustainable?

When fabrics are cut up, parts stitched into clothing, a whopping 35% is wasted. 85% of textiles head to landfill each year. So, what can we do to prevent problems like this from happening? How can we effectively repurpose leftover fabric? Queue Recovo…

Most discussion and literature on plastic pollution and microfibres assumes that the problem is largely due to synthetic fabrics. Yet, a 2020 study found that despite the domination of synthetic fibres in current global production, they accounted for only 8% of microfibre pollution.

Collective Fashion Justice board member and Vegan Voices of Color founder Unique Vance walks us through how to start pressure campaigning in order to create a more just world.

The recent protests demanding for extended Eid holidays may seem like one-off, even minor incidents but in actuality they are symbolic of wider issues.

The creators of cactus leather, Desserto, have recently released an early stage life cycle assessment. This is exciting, because it means we can begin to understand how Desserto compares to other materials.

Faunalytics — an organisation which conducts research and shares knowledge relating to the suffering of non-human animals — has recently released analysis of 15 years worth of legal wildlife import data from the United States.

Independent polling commissioned by Collective Fashion Justice in collaboration with Animal Justice Party MP Andy Meddick’s office found that the majority of people in the City of Melbourne support a ban on fur.

Unsurprisingly, our fears around the spread of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19, or even worse, continue to rise. As a total ethics fashion organisation, we’re asking, what responsibility does the fashion industry have to help prevent zoonotic disease spread?

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…

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.