Sustainable Fashion Links Week 2

Tiffany’s becoming more transparent and a year of no spend!

Hello! I have some exciting news to share this week.
 At the end of January, we are going to be moving to Berlin in Germany!

I mentioned that we were there last month, we were scoping out which part of the city to live! Berlin is a hub for sustainable fashion so I’m looking forward to checking it all out. If anyone has any tips, let me know!

Here are your sustainable fashion links for the week.

There are two articles about Tiffany’s the jeweller and the transparency behind their diamond origins. I thought jewellers had to know where their diamonds came from by law years ago! Apparently not…

11 Links

More Than Ever, Our Clothes Are Made Of Plastic. Just Washing Them Can Pollute The Oceans. Some good diagrams in this article about which plastic fibres shed the most during the wash. Vox

What does Tiffany’s New Diamond Transparency Pledge Really Mean? Quartz

You Know Your Diamond’s Cut and Carat. But Does It Have Ethical Origins? NY Times

Reflections On A No-Spend 2018. I’ve been following Madhur on Instagram for a while, and didn’t actually realise he was doing a no-spend challenge last year! I find it so inspiring when people challenge themselves to buy no new clothes. Find out how he got on here. A Vivid Life

A View Of Fashion – Archive, 1968. An article from The Guardian archive, this time detailing coat dresses. The Guardian

What I Learned When I Gave Up Fast Fashion. Sarah Spellings quit fast fashion cold turkey last January after feeling disillusioned with female empowerment t-shirts, made and sold by exploitative brands. The Cut

Why 2019 Could Be a Watershed Year for Fashion and Sustainability. With more and more brands and individuals changing how they think about sustainability in fashion in 2018, Sophie Benson is hoping for even better things in 2019. AnOther Mag

Britons Willing To Pay More For Fair Fashion But Trust In Brands Lacking. Basically we want to pay a little more to ensure the workers are getting paid but don’t trust the big brands to actually pay them. Thomson Reuters

Will 2019 Be The Year Clothing Subscription Takes Over? Renting clothing is catching on. Forbes

Connecting Thread. How These Female Breadwinners Defy Tradition And Break Stereotypes. A video that shows the lives of several young female artisans in India who sew beading onto garments. One of them attends a fashion show afterwards to see her garments on the catwalk. Incredibly inspiring. Refinery29

Incase You Missed It

25 Things You Could Be Doing Instead Of Shopping – Winter Edition. Although we often need to shop for new things, it can turn into a problem if we do it just for something to do. Try some of these ideas instead. The Green Edition

Until next week!

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