The Filipino Women Turning Rags into High Fashion

Would You Still Buy That Dress After Watching This?

It's been a year. What progress have we made?
It is impossible to gain a clear perspective, but overall it seems progress is slow and laden with obstacles.
Question is, will we forget about this in time to come? I hope not.
Read about it, think about it:
http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/activities/all/WCMS_218693/lang--en/index.htm
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/may/30/rana-plaza-bangladesh-forced-labour-supply-chains
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/04/24/zakia-uddin/after-rana-plaza/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-27141385
http://www.fidh.org/en/globalisation-human-rights/15179-one-year-after-the-rana-plaza-catastrophe-slow-progress-and-insufficient
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/rana-plaza/

Amazing Process: YUZEN (KIMONO-MAKING)

Published Collab Project: Renaissance d'Ordures

...this little project from long ago was more than heaps of fun...
photography by Jacinta | jewellery and accessories by Fiona (Gould's Finch / fionacaripis.tumblr.com/)
garments and headpieces by Adel(taikensonzai), made from waste paper and trashed "enviro-bags"
shoes by Rose (rosebrinkley.com/)
models Carly and Ana (RIP)
make-up by Nicki
hair by Biba

 

A Whole New Cloth: Politics and the Fashion System

In fashion, despite more than 400 eco labels, an incremental ‘do less harm’ approach has addressed the symptoms, but not the principal cause, of our difficulties: an economy based on perpetual growth in a finite world. 

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