Month: June 2020
UK fashion designers including Rixo launch reusable face coverings range
The British Fashion Council has launched a range of face coverings designed by six British designers as part of a joint campaign with Bags of Ethics. The aim of the campaign, titled “Great British Designer Face Coverings: Reusable, for People and Planet”, is to manufacture sustainable, reusable, non-medical face coverings to be sold across the
From Asos to H&M, these are the summer sales to shop now
The coronavirus pandemic has meant all non-essential businesses have been closed since lockdown began on 23 March. It’s had a detrimental impact on fashion shops across the UK. B2B magazine, Drapers reported in-store sales have dropped 84 per cent compared to 2019, and – despite online grocery sales surging – for the rest of the
Coronavirus is the fashion industry’s wake-up call to change, eco-fashion campaigner Livia Firth warns
Ethical fashion campaigner Livia Firth says the coronavirus has sounded the alarm in the fashion industry that sweeping change is needed on its consequential environmental impacts. “The fashion industry has been talking for years about the need to change,” she told The Independent. “There have been conferences, panels, people talk and talk, and nothing happens.
Best brands turning recycled plastic bottles into clothes
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know there’s a horrifying amount of plastic waste floating in the world’s oceans: around eight million metric tonnes of the stuff. And if things continue as they are, it’s predicted that by 2050 there will be more of it than fish in the sea. Our single-use plastic