The Ethical Fashion Show® is traveling this year and will be in Milan March 1-3. Round tables: Fashion as a tool for development/Sustainability and Fashion Source: Eco Fashion World and Ethical Fashion Show®
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slogan t-shirts: what do you think?
I have been obsessed with U.K. designer Katharine Hamnett for a long time. In fact, it was her slogan t-shirts that first showed me that there was opportunity to transform this industry; she is the quintessential example of a pissed off designer who refuses to stand for the high human cost of fashion. She is dedicated to the promotion of organic cotton, and runs a strong campaign against the conventional ‘white gold’: “Conventional cotton represents 10% of world agriculture and uses 25% of the world’s pesticides. 100 million conventional cotton farmers, from Russia to South Africa, are living...
AHRC: Call for more attention for handloom weavers suffering from hunger and Tuberculosis in Varanasi
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) released a ‘Hunger Alert’ update today regarding the state of poverty and TB amongst handloom weavers in Varanasi, India. According to the report, the weavers are suffering from lack of medical attention, government neglect and extreme poverty and hunger. You can read the entire alert, as well as view a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health and World Health Organisation calling for their intervention here. What does this have to do with sustainable fashion design? To say that the textile sector in India is vast would...
Global Surplus in Organic Cotton Production
According to this article by Eco-Textile News, although 2008 saw an increase in demand for organic cotton by 33%, global production was left with an 8% surplus. The article cites information released by non-profit Organic Exchange, who also claim that demand for organic cotton will likely result in a 24% increase in 2009 an worry that inventory will remain too high. The Organic Cotton Market Report will be available in Feb 2009 for review.
