This month we are launching the new blog series Make or Mend of the Month which aims to highlight some of the wonderful fashion making, mending and alteration projects that you, our readers, are working on. We hope it will serve as inspiration and perhaps guidance for others.
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There is something special about a collection that is conceived and created in rural Nepal, but designed and sold in urban Dalston. East London sustainable fashion shop studio Here Today Here Tomorrow (HTHT) has designed its...
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Emerging fashion designers in Asia and Europe are being invited to enter the prestigious EcoChic Design Award. Now in its fifth year, the sustainable fashion design competition recognises up-and-coming designers who combine a passion for...
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From Thursday 10th to Sunday 13th July From Somewhere are presenting a pop-up shop at their London studio in Peckham. The hosts will naturally be offering some of their luxury upcycled wares, and have invited a carefully curated selection of...
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This month saw the launch of a new collaboration between French sneaker brand Veja, supermodel and actress Lily Cole, and Sky Rainforest Rescue (a partnership between WWF and Sky...
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Majeurs Chesterfield, a London based company that launched in 2011 to restore and manufacture Chesterfield furniture in-house, has recently opened a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The team, headed up by Demi Owoseje and Ade Oladipo...
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I am often asked “where can I shop ethically on the high street?” Well, it’s not quite as simple as that. Of course, there are some retailers that are doing things better than others; who are making greater efforts to embed social and ethical responsibility into their supply chain, but no one...
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For the final instalment of the Who Made Your Clothes interviews that we filmed in support of Fashion Revolution Day at our last event, writer, coach and maker-mender John-Paul Flintoff speaks to...
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American footwear brand Fortress of Inca, already established in the world of women’s footwear, is in the midst of a crowdfunding...
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To quote the great Gil Scott-Heron ‘the revolution will put you in the driver’s seat...the revolution will not be televised...the revolution will be live’.
Media has changed beyond measure since this iconic protest poem was written by Scott...
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