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Sustainability In The Fashion Business

Interesting article in the Guardian with an overview on how fashion businesses can incorporate ethics, particularly sustainability, into their operations.By, Jenny Purt for the Guardian Professional NetworkWednesday 28 SeptemberWhat should the priorities be for the apparel business?• Labour conditions, water footprints, fibres and carbon.An initial step would be for companies to make a concerted effort to adopt a few fabrics that are more sustainable but which may cost 5-10% more in base price. This would cause a chain reaction in the rest of industry. As big brands source more responsible textiles for their collections, there will be a bigger volume of orders which will lower the overall manufacturing cost (and therefore retail price), making the product more accessible to the...

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Luxury Brands: Wake Up To Ethical & Environmental Responsibilities!

Many of the world's biggest and most elite fashion houses pay virtually no regard to corporate ethics and have yet to take even the first steps on reporting on the social and environmental impact of their operations.London Fashion Week kicks off on Friday with a frenzy of champagne-fuelled fashion shows.But of the world's biggest and most elite fashion houses now gathered in London how many will be sparing a thought for the workers who make the clothes for their multi-billion pound empires? Hardly any, according to Ethical Consumer's new buyers' guide to luxury clothing brands, published on Wednesday.Click the website link to read the full article.Browse our range of environmentally and socially beneficial fabrics for fashion """

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Green Hits New York Fashion Week SS12

It’s Easy Being Green: Green Is the new BlackNobody wants their clothes to look trashy—least of all, fashion designers—but amid the excitement of 2011’s New York Fashion Week, the pejorative might not be so much of an insult. Exhibits like that of designer Nancy Judd feature high-end garments made from cassette tape, junk mail, and plastic bags.Indeed, designers at this year’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, or New York Fashion Week as many call it, are making it abundantly clear that green is the new black. The models for John Patrick Organic’s exhibit strutted down the runway in pieces whose origins can be traced on Sourcemap, a web resource that provides information about supply chains. The designer said his adventurous spring 2012...

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