Sustainable fashion innovation steps up! Meet Katrin Ley, managing director of FASHION FOR GOOD - the world’s first sustainable fashion museum in Amsterdam. The organisation that was co-founded by William McDonough and set up to bring together the entire fashion ecosystem with incentives, resources and tools for sustainability. At its core is William’s concept of the Five Goods, which, he says, “represent an aspirational framework we can all use to work towards a world in which we do not simply take, make, waste, but rather take, make, renew and restore.”

Common Objective has been described as a Linkedin sustainable fashion. Meet the British fashion change-maker behind it, Tamsin Lejeune.

Back in 2006, Tamsin founded the Ethical Fashion Forum, a London-based industry body for sustainable fashion. Her team also brought us Source, one of the first platforms to list sustainable resources and suppliers in one place. How much has changed since then? How far off is sustainable fashion from being the norm? What tools do we need do fashion better and connect as a community?

Jeans genius! In this podcast, Clare Press interviews James Bartle about his Australian B Corp denim company Outland Denim and how fashion can provide good jobs for survivors of human trafficking in Cambodia.

Love fashion, hate sweatshops. Hear from ethical fashion pioneer and People Tree founder Safia Minney about fair trade, The True Cost, and fashion activism.

We’ve got the power!

What is fashion week actually for? Is the old system tired & old-fashioned? Has it lost its purpose and reason for being? If so, what sorts events do we want to see take over? Do we need sustainable fashion weeks?

Meet Evelyn Mora, the 26-year-old photographer-turned-event-producer behind Helsinki Fashion Week. In its current incarnation, the event happened for the second time in July 2018, taking sustainability as its focus.

Evelyn's mission? To reinvent “traditional concepts of fashion week venues and the ways they present collections to buyers and press” while simultaneously “questioning the way we consume.” Evelyn says her vision is all about “circularity, sustainability and beauty” but it’s also about getting rid of what’s gone before. She’s a change agent who likes to shake things up. She wants fashion weeks to be super-inclusive, zero-waste, diverse, open to anyone who's interested, showcasing only ethically produced and environmentally-aware collections; in short, totally different to how they used to be.

Who made my accessories? Part 2 of our story on the UN’s Ethical Fashion Initiative, featuring artisans in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ciao Simone! Simone Cipriani is founder of the UN’s Ethical Fashion Initiative, a flagship programme of the International Trade Centre, a joint agency of the UN and World Trade Organization.

The EFI connects skilled artisans in places like Kenya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Haiti and now Afghanistan, to the international value chain of fashion, working with the likes of Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Karen Walker, Adidas and the Australian accessories house MIMCO.

The work empowers informal manufacturers and craftspeople to enter the international value chain - providing an income for some of the poorest people in the world. This promotes the growth of sustainable business in place of aid dependency. It provides opportunity. This is not charity, this is work.