Sustainable Fashion Reading – 11 Links

Environmental Audit Committee and the UN Charter for Sustainable Fashion.

Hello everyone!

It’s the first of December! I’ve got two miniature schnauzers and they have just opened their advent calendars. Advent calendars get more flashy and ostentatious every year. Although I’m in awe of the children’s vintage ones on Etsy. I couldn’t resist buying the doggy calenders when I was ordering their food online. In hindsight, one would have done for them both. There are four big biscuits behind the first door, oops!

There are lots of interesting sustainable fashion articles in the news this week, I’ve listed them below. I’ve also included one link that focuses on sustainability in general rather than fashion. I’ve changed up the location of these sustainable fashion reading blogs. You can still find the latest ones on the homepage and the rest are under ‘weekly news’ in the menu.

11 links

Stella McCartney To Launch UN Charter For Sustainable Fashion. The Guardian

Cambridge Analytica Used Fashion Preferences To Target People On Facebook. This is both fascinating and terrifying. How online fashion data has been used to target and manipulate people voting in the US election.Vox

UK MPs Criticise High Street Fashion’s Throwaway Culture. ‘The low prices in Primark stores, where T-shirts can cost as little as £2, were challenged by MPs on the Commons environmental audit select committee, who suggested shoppers viewed its clothing as disposable.’ The Guardian

If You Are In The UK you can watch the live coverage of the environmental audit committee’s session on the sustainability of the fashion industry with evidence from M&S, Primark, the Arcadia Group, Burberry, Boohoo, ASOS and Missguided here.

Fast Fashion Leaves Charity Shops Inundated With Cheap Clothes That End Up In Landfill. Another article injunction with the environmental audit committee. This time raising questions about what charity shops are supposed to do with the mass of clothing. Independent

Is The Shopping Centre Ready To Check Out? BBC

For Retailers And Brands, Sustainability Needs Good Tech. A list of the ways tech is helping brands move forward. Forbes

Viscose Pollution: Fashion Brands Warned Of Damage Done By Leading Chinese Textiles Producers Retail Insight Network

The Important US Climate Report That Trump’s Administration Tried to Bury Under Black Friday. Climate change threatens the way we live in the modern world, unfortunately not all governments think this is important for us to know. Eco Warrior Princess

Gender Fluid Fashion Is The Future. Interesting article about how womenswear and menswear are becoming increasingly like each other. Women have been borrowing their husband’s clothing for years, now men can borrow women’s too without judgement. GQ

The Anxiety Of The Minimalist Closet. Wearing black helped Tyler Watamanuk deal with anxiety. And then it became a source of anxiety itself. GQ

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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