Our work
Campaigns, reports, and other projects Collective Fashion Justice has produced and collaborated on.
Total Ethics Fashion book
Our founder’s manifesto for a total ethics fashion future, exploring what it means to protect people, our fellow animals and the planet before profit.
The book also launched a manifesto which can be endorsed by citizens, industry members and institutions.
SLAY film
SLAY is a feature documentary film exploring the interwoven harms caused by fashion’s use of fur, leather and wool.
Following investigative filmmaker Rebecca Cappelli, a harrowing story of greenwashing, cover-ups, environmental destruction, unjust treatment of workers, and of cruel animal exploitation unravels.
SLAY asks an important question to the public, and the fashion industry itself:i Is it acceptable to kill animals for fashion?
CFJ is proud to be involved with the SLAY film and campaign.
Under their skin: leather report series
A series of report exploring leather’s impact on people, the planet and animals, as well as what a just transition beyond leather looks like.
This four part report series is supported by a number of organisations including Fashion Act Now, Defend the Wild, Center for Biological Diversity, FOUR PAWS, Material Innovation Initiative and more.
The campaign linked to the report series includes recommendations and overviews for consumers, brands and policy-makers alike.
University engagement
Collective Fashion Justice board members guest lecture at a number of universities, discussing total ethics fashion, and screening films SLAY and Willow and Claude.
We also engage with Swinburne University, where several units include course work which is tied to Collective Fashion Justice and our goal of creating a more holistically just fashion system. This allows students to not only learn about total ethics fashion, but contribute to building such an industry – while receiving credits for their degree.
Mulesing: exposed
Eye-witness footage supplied to CFJ by an industry worker shows the brutal reality of mulesing and painful mutilations young lambs face.
Even with pain relief, sheep are suffering when they are mulesed and tail docked, as expert veterinarian scientists confirm.
This cruelty is legal in leading wool production country, Australia. We’re working with the Animal Justice Party and FOUR PAWS to change that.
Banning fur
Fur will be the first of the animal-derived materials to leave the fashion industry, with many brands, countries and councils already banning its use, production and sale.
With the Animal Justice Party, we are working to ban the sale of fur across Victoria.
With Eurogroup for Animals, we are working to ban fur farming and sales across the continent of Europe.
The use of wild animals in fashion and fashion week events
Alongside World Animal Protection, CFJ is working to ensure the fashion industry moves away from exploiting wild animals. Wild animal use in the fashion industry is cruel, threatens biodiversity and global health.
Our work includes reporting and engaging with fashion events to secure wild animal protection commitments.
Defend the Wild
Collective Fashion Justice has partnered with Kindness Project for their ongoing Defend the Wild campaign.
Not only farmed animals are impacted by wool, leather and other animal-derived material production, but native animals displaced, threatened and targeted by these systems, too.
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In progress: The future of bio-materials in Australia
In collaboration with co.labs, Collective Fashion Justice is working on a report exploring the importance of bio-materials in fashion’s future, and how Australia can support innovation in the space.
This is a solution-focused study of total ethics fashion development.
Fashion standing with horses
A just fashion industry is a fashion industry which does not sponsor, endorse or offer social license to archaic cruelty in the name of sport. The relationship between horse racing, exploitation, violence and fashion is one which must be moved beyond.
We’re calling on brands to stand with horses and commit to cutting ties with unethical horse racing partnerships, while educating the public on the importance of this.
Shear destruction: wool, fashion and the biodiversity crisis
In collaboration with the Center for Biological Diversity, Collective Fashion Justice’s CIRCUMFAUNA project produced a landmark report on the impact of the wool industry on biodiversity across Australia and the United States.
This report features new calculations on wool’s environmental impact, and a path towards a just transition for the industry.
Drop croc
Kindness Project created a campaign with Farm Transparency Project investigative footage, which for the first time, showed citizens the inside of multiple Australian crocodile farms owned by luxury fashion houses like Hermes and Louis Vuitton.
Collective Fashion Justice researched, produced photo and written content pieces for the campaign, and assisted with expert interviews.
Willow and Claude short film
Willow and Claude is a multi-award winning short film and non-profit knitwear project by Collective Fashion Justice, which takes viewers through a totally transparent, ethical and more sustainable Australian fashion supply chain.
Named after two rescued sheep, this knitwear supply chain is plant-based, made of Australian cotton, while the film dives into the ethics of today’s knitwear supply chains and materials.
Good On You material guides
Content from renowned fashion rating and education source Good On You is read by hundreds of thousands of people each month.
Collective Fashion Justice is working with Good On You, rewriting and updating their material guides for animal-derived materials. CFJ is making sure that the harm done to the planet, non-human and human animals in these supply chains is clear.
#WhoKilledForMyClothes?
Every Fashion Revolution Week, we are reminded of the importance of asking #WhoMadeMyClothes. Garment workers are treated unjustly, and if we look beyond tier one of fashion supply chains, to where fabrics are made and raw materials are produced, we find further injustices. We pose questions to develop our understanding of these injustices, and how they impact the humans in fashion’s animal supply chains.
CIRCUMFAUNA
CIRCUMFAUNA aims to centralise and contextualise research and data regarding the use of animals in fashion, from environmental impacts to emerging technologies.
With our team, we calculate new and accessible data on the environmental impact of animal use in fashion, while highlighting total ethics, ‘circumfaunal’ fashion solutions.
Testimony and submissions
Legislation can be a powerful tool for the reduction of suffering, and for justice and liberation. It’s for this reason that Collective Fashion Justice writes submissions for government inquiries, as well as testifies in regards to potential new legislation relevant to our mission.
Most notably, CFJ has consulted on and testified in support of ethically and environmentally conscious legislation in NYC.
Total ethics fashion: a primer
Our freely available print and online booklet, ‘total ethics fashion: a primer’, is a great educational tool for those seeking to understand how the fashion industry harms animals; both human and non-human, as well as the planet.
This booklet is free for individuals, and is disseminated through spaces in the education, retail, and non-profit realms. In this way, a wider, more diverse group of people have access to it.
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