Charlie Ross is director of Offset Warehouse, the first ethical, fashion and interiors business of its kind.Having graduated with a Masters in Menswear design from the RCA Charlie has always featured ethics in his design work.  He has lived lived in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan and has an extensive knowledge of Asia drives his desire to make sourcing…

Mark Sumner, raw materials specialist at M&S

The rising price of cotton has been just one of the ingredients contributing to a cocktail of despair for retailers over the last 12 months, impacting on many fashion companies’ margins or resulting in higher prices for already-stretched consumers.

Value fashion retailer Primark and global high…

Exclusive goods and services with sound environmental and social credentials does not have to be a contradictory idea.

A NEW BUSINESS MODEL FOR LUXURY BRADS? PHOTOGRAPH: MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Luxury and sustainability are two words you may not particularly expect to find in the same sentence. You may even think they are antithetical…

Gargi Bhaduri, a doctoral student, and Jung Ha-Brookshire, an assistant professor of textile and apparel management in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Missouri, surveyed apparel consumers to find out if they were willing to pay a premium for products produced using sustainable and ethical methods.

They found that consumers would be willing to pay 15%-20% more for such products. However, they also found that consumers are likely to remain skeptical…

Tuesday we held our event 'Ethical Fashion Goes Global' at the Cinnamon Kitchen in Shoreditch, and ethical fashion truly went global for the few hours during the event! We had three contributors tweeting the event live and managed to share snippets of gold from our panel of guest speakers. Follow the event on twitter HERE to see what exactly we were tweeting, who we tweeted, and the live responses we received.  NB.…

ETHICAL FASHION FORUM INNOVATION WINNER 2011, CHICHIA FOR MADE BY AFRICA. 

The Ethical Fashion Forum took part in the 30th season of the UK's largest fashion buying event, Pure and Pure Spirit.  This year was extremely successful and there was a huge presence from ethical and sustainable brands, as well as brands hoping to integrate sustainability into their…

Our extended interview with Orsola de Castro, including Orsola's dreams and hopes for Estethica and her advice for long standing fashion brands looking for a new challenge.

How would you like to see ethical fashion develop in your home country, Italy, which is also one of the original homes of high fashion?

In Italy, things tend…

June 2011 saw the Fairtrade Foundation team up with Essence at London Jewellery Week to create a bespoke exhibition of the world’s first Fairtrade and Fairmined gold jewellery collections. The exhibition was curated by ground-breaking ethical jeweller CRED and marks the start of a revolution in the way the jewellery industry sources materials. Victoria Waugh, Business…

NETWORK MEMBER OF THE MONTH: JEM BENDELL

We are pleased to announce the return of our Member of the Month slot. This month we have invited Dr Jem Bendell to be featured and answer a few questions about his life and work.

Dr Jem Bendell is Director of…

Two calls open till Sept 2011 and Dec 2011

CfP: Research Journal of Textile and Apparel

RESEARCH JOURNAL OF TEXTILE AND APPAREL

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on

Fashion and Textile Strategies for Sustainable Design and Consumption

Guest Editor

Kirsi Niinimäki, School of Art and Design, Aalto University, Finland

Special Issue on

The…

Design three outfits and write a business plan, which explain how your fashion enterprise contributes to sustaining Biodiversity.

PRIZES

The Green Fashion Competition aims to facilitate talented fashion entrepreneurs in founding their ventures in the fashion industry and has…

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16TH AUGUST: SUSTAINABLE FASHION GOES GLOBAL

An exclusive preview of sustainable market and supply intelligence on EFF's recently launched SOURCE Magazine

Venue:…

VOGUE.COM UK

Format: Online

Launched: 2009

Hits: 800,000 unique visitors per month

In a nutshell: Owned by powerhouse publisher Condé Nast, the Vogue brand is the world’s style bible. With an international readership,…

Don't miss out on major discounts on stands and tickets

SOURCE EXPO 2011, the only fashion industry trade show dedicated to ethical sourcing, will take place on the 17th and 18th October at Sadler's Wells, Rosebury Avenue, London…

The Slow Summit 2011

a TFRC/Craftspace event

Open Lecture with Prof.Alastair Fuad-Luke (author of 'Design Activism') and Prof. Helen Carnac (curator of 'Taking Time; Craft and the Slow Revolution')

The fourth event from the 2011 TFRC Open Lecture series, run in…

EFF SEEKS FINANCE INTERN

The Ethical Fashion Forum is currently looking to recruit a finance intern to provide essential day to day financial and administrative support for our new membership services which has launched. We are seeking an individual with solid finance acumen, previous book keeping experience, and the ability to work well within a dynamic team. We are looking for a dynamic, energetic and organised individual who enjoys working with people to fill this…