Elda

The fashion industry produces 10% of annual global carbon emission SOURCE UNEP

100 billion clothes were sold in 2000 SOURCE ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION

"Donating clothes" are often hipped to resale markets in developing countries, which impacts negatively on the local economy, or they're ending up in landfill

Returning goods online-major footprint for the travel alone, for brands is cheaper to trash them than to inspect them and repackage them.

Washing clothes at low temperatures and less helps making them last longer. When you are washing acrylic and other synthetic fiabrics, they shed tiny bits of plastic microfibers that will then go back to the sea, making up 1/5 of the 8 million tons of plastic waste that ends up in the ocean every year.

A tag cannot reveal the complex labour chain that went into making I, it might list the country in which it was assembled. Source UNEP

"IF YOU WANT CLOTHES TO SAY WHO YOU ARE, WHAT DO YOU WANT THEM TO SAY ABOUT YOU?"

SOURCE @ SOUTHASIA_ART

Our individual choices are always debatable, there's no ethical consumption in our reality. So, there's no action that doesn't have its flaws. The system we are in does not align with our ideals of what it means to live a "good life". We should not hold up said ideals to judge others and their choices of consumption.We should work together to deconstruct a system that endorses inequalities, foster a community and not a courtroom. We are all hypocrites at one point of the day.
Sooo, does anyone know of ethical fashion designers in Rotterdam?

xx eldorado

"In the age of Brands-as-communities, teen retailers must not only sell and promote products across a wide variety of channels, but also develop and adopt a brand persona complete with a distinct set of values , aesthetic and voice optimized for digital engagement"

SOURCE BOF'S m.c. nanda

MYTH: the more expensive the garment, the less likely workers have been exploited

TRUTH:Many mid-priced and premium labels actually produce in the same factories as discount and fast fashion brands. This means that everything from workers rights to the condition in which they work in, can be exploitative, regardless of the price point. WHat's more, the price of a garment doesn't not guarantee that workers were fairly paid, because the cost of labour only makes up a small fraction of total production cost. SOURCE @FASH_REV