Fashion and sustainability: general – Page 4

Seminar: Helsinki, Finland 2 & 3 October

In early October I will take part in a two day seminar on fashion and sustainability organised by Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki,…

Post date July 23, 2013

The fetishization of transparency

Making the production chain transparent has become a big deal in sustainability circles. Over little more than five years, the pursuit of a knowable, traceable garment supply chain…

Post date June 13, 2013

Five Years of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion!

The Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion is celebrating five years of its work by launching a year of special events and activities that will run…

Post date June 10, 2013

Dhaka Rana Plaza: Our Collective Responsbility

After weeks of feeling personally devastated about the factory collapse of the Dhaka Rana Plaza in Bangladesh; of witnessing the pain of the lives, families and communities lost…

Post date May 14, 2013

New Sustainable Design Film Release: ’50 Ways of Working Sustainably’

In sustainability there is no such thing as a mass answer, but instead a mass of appropriately scaled, creative, dynamic, emerging and engaging answers. A new video from the Puma…

Post date October 28, 2012

The Slow Revolution: lunchtime discussion at the RSA

Royal Society of Arts, London 4th October 2012, 13:00. The last ten years has seen a burgeoning of the Slow Movement in all aspects of life from management, travel and…

Post date September 27, 2012

Fashion & Sustainability: Mike Barry & Kate Fletcher debate

On 27th April 2012, Mike Barry, Head of Sustainable Business at M&S and Kate Fletcher, Reader in Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion discussed wide ranging themes…

Post date September 24, 2012

Scale, Fashion and Sustainability

In the barn-conference space at the recent MEND*RS symposium nestled in the age-old Lake District hills and with families of swallows nesting overhead, I was struck by how…

Post date July 10, 2012

Same, same, but different: how we have to change how we perceive fashion and sustainability

Back in 1997 I started to write regular features on sustainability themes in fashion and textiles in a magazine called Eco Design, the journal of the now disbanded…

Post date May 17, 2012