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TIE MAKING /
The Child Labour Experiment /
have you ever asked yourself who made your clothes quite possibly it was a
child one of millions working for the fashion industry 16 hours a day under miserable conditions you can either just accept it or you can do something about it and that's what we did to uncover the ruthless morals within the fashion industry we carried out a simple fearless by doing the unthinkable
children offering that cheap workforce to the big fashion brands in the first world online on the phone and even directly in the stores every day which again I buy screw over yeah it's good to see ya as I'm so super so an ancient official a party to connect I bet huh for dance really get not to you we said we would work all day long without breaks we got rejected everywhere fashion industry children in the first and third world aren't different we reject your double standards and we call on everyone to join us
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Sustainable /
Sustainability must be considered not only in terms of the considerations relating to a fashion garment or a fashion business, but also to the changing scale of fashion consumption. The amount of fashion bought in the world, both in terms of its global quantity and the amount bought or acquired by each person has dramatically increased.
We know that Clothing production worldwide has doubled since 2000 and yet the average British or European person keeps their clothing items for about half as long. Globally the vast majority of discarded clothing ends up in landfills or is incinerated, currently only 20% is collected for reuse or recycling.
‘The average person buys 60 percent more items of clothing and keeps them for about half as long as 15 years ago.’ Greenpeace 2017
To further build on this data, The Pulse Report states that if GDP continues to rise as predicted in both developed and developing worlds, “the overall apparel consumption will rise by 63%, from 62 million tons today to 102 million tons in 2030 - an equivalent of more than 500 billion T-shirts.”
If we position this alongside the knowledge that the average piece of clothing in the UK lasts for 3.3 years before being discarded (Wrap 2017), we can acknowledge that this is an enormous burden for the planet to bear. Design to reduce consumption is needed to reimagine ways in which fashion success might shift from quantity sold, to value gained.
Read MoreConsumer Responsibility /
What kind of consumer ‘democracy’ do we live in when some people have enormous numbers of votes and others have next to none?
Fashion brands and retailers often say that what they do is a response to what ‘the consumer’ demands. ‘They’ service ‘our’ needs and desires for style, price and the latest trends. Because ‘we’ get what ‘we’ demand, ‘we’ are responsible for all that is good, bad and ugly in the fashion industry. So, when we find out that we are benefiting from other people’s exploitation, as ‘consumers’ we are responsible both for that exploitation and for doing something about it.
To this way of thinking, the economy is like a democratic system. When we buy things, we’re voting with our money for the world in which we want to live. So, if we are upset or angry with what we find about the work and lives of the people who make our clothes, we have two choices. One is to boycott the brands and retailers whose clothes they are making, and/or the other is to choose to shop more ethically (i.e. better) and/or sustainably (i.e. less).
Blaming and praising ‘the consumer’ is a game that’s often played by brands, retailers, governments, NGOs and others. But, before we can get going this Week, we need to question its logic:
What kind of consumer ‘democracy’ do we live in when some people have enormous numbers of votes and others have next to none?
Is it only ‘the consumer’ whose demands brands and retailers respond to? Who else influences what they choose to do?
What do you think?
Who Made My Clothes /
It's very easy to know where our food is farmed, manufactured and even packaged, so why not who made our clothes? #whomadeyourclothes
well I'm very interested in you know kind of provenance clothing just caring about you know where your clothes are made it's important and that's really the message behind fashion revolution it's become very normal with food to care about where it's from and what they're eating and I think this should definitely translates also what you're wearing we trust that brands and high street retailers are making clothes and fashion ethically and they're not always there are things going on there should be we want to encourage chains and maybe vote with our feet a little bit and sort of say we want to know where our codes come from and if you're not going to fix your supply chain going to ensure that your clothes are made under standards then you are not going to buy them we're here inviting people to come in and experience what ethical fashion really means and try to rebrand that concept as something that is fashionable fun and easy to get involved with I'm kind of joining in by encouraging people to do the inside-out thing which has been a huge success I believe it's already trending on Twitter and then I'm down here it's designer Jumbo's kind of doing what I do best which is sort of playing around with clothes and they've got such an amazing selection of stuff here I think it's great to have another choice especially in this environment of everything being new this is so great to have things that are old and individual I just want people to look after their clothes and think about them and in Kassadin I think what you could do is get rid of your old clothes so somebody else could love them and they have a new life and be recycled you can love a jumper or on top or a jacket and you can love it for 5-10 years the rest of your life it's not kind of so trend Griffin don't just buy something in seeing it's disposable but just to think about the work that went into it it doesn't need to be so much this kind of really really really quick pace which I think leads to the fact that there are these awful conditions because the turn around and everything is going to be kind of pumped out.
Sustainable Model for Design and Business /
A Sustainable Model of BusinessThe Kering perspective In this video Marie-Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability Officer at Kering, gives an introduction to sustainability from a luxury business perspective. She discusses the relationship between luxury fashion and sustainability, and how Kering are using creative approaches to tackle environmental issues. Sustainable Development Goals The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 shared values and global goals set out by the United Nations, and have been adopted by countries to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. Each goal has specific targets to be achieved by the year 2030, and for the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part; governments, the private sector, civil society and people like yourselves. Paris Climate Accord The COP21 Agreement, which stands for the Paris Climate Accord is a deal that was created in December 2015 that united 195 of the world’s nations in a single agreement on tackling climate change for the first time in history. It is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance with a roadmap finalised by the year 2020.
Posted by Nghia Ton Designs on Wednesday, 25 April 2018
My Ethical Journey Started with this Video /
My Ecosustainethical JourneyOver the last few years I've been researching and learning about Ecological, Sustainability & Ethical Integrity in Design. So here is a little video that helped me begin. Why fashion and sustainability? Professor Dilys Williams who is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, and Lead Educator for this course. In this short film Dilys introduces and discusses fashion design for sustainability, and highlights some of the key principles and global challenges that we currently face.
Posted by Nghia Ton Designs on Friday, 13 April 2018