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The new Summer 2014 Kampala Fair collection showcases a strong design aesthetic combined with unique African prints chosen from a range of 300 colourful patterns. No more than 30 garments are produced for every print in order to maintain a unique touch while providing colour combinations that look good on different skin tones.





Kampala Fair is an ethical…

Profile on my line in Paris based ELUXE MAGAZINE !

http://eluxemagazine.com/jewellery/french-jean-joaillerie/The History of Paris on a Chain: Jean…

We’re in love with our new garment factory!

Our new building was purpose made for garment manufacturing with spacious cutting floors and sewing areas with lots of natural lighting and bifold doors that open out onto large verandahs where.  It’s the perfect environment for us and our staff to be creative, have fun and produce amazing high-end garments.  

We absolutely love it…

By Bianca Alexander

According to the Department of Labor, over half of the garment factories in the United States are sweatshops.  The popularity of sweatshops began at the turn of the 20^th century, as consumer demand rose for trendy but inexpensive off-the-rack clothing.  Given the difficulty of mechanizing the clothing manufacture process, cheap human…

As it is my final year, I will be completing my dissertation. Which is based on sustainability. It is an investigation into the current market and looks at how to broaden the market through consumer/retailers opinions. 

Case studies are making up the majority of my work.

If anybody would like to answer the post title question, it would be a huge, gigantic help to my work. 

The question again is: What do you think are the main factors that prevent…

Don't Forget: This Saturday 31st August!

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Introducing the style is... Collective for ethical and sustainable fashion brands

Style-is.co.uk, the search engine for sustainable fashion has just launched a new collective for UK ethical fashion brands and retailers. The style is... Collective  gives brands the opportunity to be part of something bigger, a movement working to make ethical and sustainable fashion more visible and accessible to…

Hi i am a Central Saint Martins student who is just starting to sell garments on etsy, check it out if your interested in handmade one of a kind creative garments. http://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LucasJoyce?ref=si_shop

I have just posted my new Sustainable Fashion Guide to London. It already features some great retailers and stores selling organic, fair trade, ethical, vintage and second hand fashion. It would be fantastic to have lots more to add to this guide, so if you are a retailer selling ethical/ sustainable/ vintage fashion in London or an ethical fashion brand that is stocked in a London…

Amalena is a sustainable luxury brand, using gold mined only from responsible artisanal and small scale mines which use only clean and sustainable extraction techniques – free from mercury, cyanide, and other harsh chemicals.

Amalena involves local goldsmiths in the production of its collection to promote economic development and sustainability in small mining communities.

For more information please visit: http://www.amalena.com/ and…

greenthisseason.com is an online platform where international green and conscious fashion designers come together. Currently we represent over 25 trendy green labels and we are rapidly expanding.

We are continuously looking for great brands to manage and represent online.



Our goal is to become a solid and reliable partner for consumers and designers in the field of green fashion. We collaborate with brands, designers and labels in order to create a strong and solid platform…

Great jubilation today over the rescue of a woman alive after 17 days in the rubble of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. But we also learnt that the death toll is now 1,021 and rising. 

Shoppers want to support ethical traders, but everyone in the fashion industry says it is soooo complex, that it is almost impossible to follow the manufacturing chain when you have to look at not only the factories where the clothes are  made, but to the shippers, the farmers who grow the cotton,…

The Bangladesh  tragedy (which is now reporting more than 800 dead and 2,500 people rescued alive) has us all questioning what we buy, who produced it and what kind of businesses we are supporting. Celebrating the upcoming Mother’s Day and World Fair Trade Day on the same weekend has been more appropriate.

Mothers have a reputation of appreciating (almost) any Mother’s Day present, but this year they may look at their gifts at little differently.  What might have been considered a…

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The SOURCE Intelligence research team is putting together a comprehensive overview of freelance sales agents, fashion sales agencies and showrooms - especially those that have worked or do work with ethical or sustainable brands.

If you're a brand and have worked with a great sales agent, agency…

The Observer Ethical Awards 2013 just opened for submissions and this year it is introducing the “Well Dressed Award” sponsored by Eco Age.

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In its ongoing efforts to engage…

In the final part of this series with Eco-fashion pioneer Marci Zaroff, I wanted to turn to the question of what it will take to really change the textile industry, what regulations need to be instituted, and in what ways we can empower ourselves to navigate through the many contradictions of what is indeed, a very complex industry.…