Topshop Introduces Upcycled “Reclaim to Wear” Collection for Summer (Ecouterre)
“Topshop is launching a collection made entirely from discarded textiles, including surplus stock and production offcuts. A collaboration with Reclaim to Wear, an initiative from pioneering eco-fashion label From Somewhere, the line includes color-block jersey maxi-dresses, gray marled-cotton baseball pullovers, ombre-bleached boy-shorts, and slouchy denim rucksacks to satisfy your your every festival-dressing need this summer.”
Fashion Compassion to host ethical fashion expo in Dubai (Fibre2Fashion)
“Fashion Compassion, the company that offers the best in sustainable and socially conscious fashion [and Fellowship 500 member], will be hosting a unique exhibiion in Dubai on June 16, 2012. The expo will feature the best of ethical and sustainable fashion brands from New York, Chicago, Rajasthan and Lahore, among other places. Some of the locally-sourced brands to be showcased at the event are Nawa, Beshtar and Palestyle.”
Red Carpet Recycler (Vogue UK)
“LILY COLE has become the latest star to join Livia Firth’s Green Carpet Challenge, re-wearing dresses she’s owned for years to recent red-carpet events – from the premiere of her new film Snow White and the Hunstman in London, to the Cannes Film Festival. “
Marks & Spencer launch the world’s ‘most sustainable suit’ (The Telegraph)
“Made from Australian organic wool, (British sheep just can’t compete with the softness and quality of their Australian counterparts), dyed in Italy using GOTS approved technology, and then spun into yarn at an Italian mill, the fabric was then shipped to China along with around twenty other components – each one meticulously sourced to ensure they are the most sustainable possible, from the linings made from recycled PET bottle polyester from a hi-tech processing plant in Japan, the recycled polyester zips, the reclaimed pocket linings (surplus from their own production lines) and reclaimed stray buttons which would otherwise end up in landfill.”
Livia Firth to speak at RITE Group event (Ecotextile News)
“Green Carpet Challenge (GCC) founder Livia Firth will team up with British TV presenter, Observer journalist and author Lucy Siegle to host a special session at this year’s RITE Group conference on sustainable textiles in London on October 10th.”
Livia Firth presents the first ever Ethical Award at GFW (GFW.org)
“I believe that every student today and everyone in the fashion business cannot not consider sustainability, and I think that it is important to any corporation” Livia comments when we greet her backstage at Graduate Fashion Week, “It is wonderful that this is the first year for the Ethical Award” she adds, smiling.
From Fashion Cycle to Recycle (China Daily)
“Janko Lam, the Hainan province native, has just created a fashion collection for Esprit, using materials that would have ended up in a landfill. She made jeans, T-shirts, shorts, dresses, vests, a skirt and a jacket from the brand’s own fabric waste and unused clothing.”
Fair-Trade, Fair-Mined Gold Jewelry Hits U.K. Mass Market (Ecouterre)
“Fair-trade and fair-mined gold jewelry has finally arrived on Britain’s high street. Ernest Jones and Beaverbrooks are the latest jewelers to offer rings bearing the Fairtrade and Fairmined dual hallmark, which the Fairtrade Foundation and Alliance for Responsible Mining issue as a guarantee of social and environmental responsibility.”
Lauren Laverne: Do you have it in green? (The Guardian)
“What really needs to happen is an evolution of the phrase, and therefore the idea, from “ethical fashion” to “ethical and fashion”. A subtle change, but an important one.”
Vivienne Westwood Launches her New Ethical Fashion Africa Collection (Press Release)
“Hosted by Yoox.com, the new line of bags and accessories were displayed in the Giardino Corsini alongside a video installation of Vivienne’s recent production trip to Kenya. Handmade in Nairobi, the collection is produced from recycled materials by marginalized communities of women, with the support of the International Trade Center’s Ethical Fashion Program of the United Nations.”
Op-Ed: Can Ethical Fashion Really Be Fashionable? (Business of Fashion)
“So here’s some good news: a rather unusual bunch of bright people are about to get together to grapple with making fashion better. At the end of next week, on June 17th, just before presidents, prime ministers and other world leaders meet in Rio de Janeiro to agree on a way forward for sustainable development, the United Nations Global Compact will host the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum.”
Nikolay Biryukov Photographs Sustainable Fashion for Interview Russia (Fashion Gone Rogue)
“For the June/July issue of Interview Russia, photographer Nikolay Biryukov lenses upcycled selects by a Central Saint Martins student design team named 8=10 with Kenji Kawasumi and Jaeyeon Lee, who have created unique garments addressing issues of sustainable fashion.”
