A Better Kind of Green Washing
If you are the type of person who wants to be an ethical, sustainable dresser, you probably make efforts to buy clothes that are made in fair labour conditions from fibres that are farmed and...
View ArticleRed Carpet, Green Dress
Suzy Amis Cameron is a dynamo. With a successful acting and modeling career already under her belt, she is taking on even more roles. She is a global environmental activist, founding director of the...
View ArticleSwap Before You Shop
Much of the advice out there for reducing your fashion footprint involves buying more sustainably made (and often expensive) clothes. But there are a number of ways – many of which we explore in our...
View ArticleFur or Faux?
No debate in the fashion world gets as heated as the one about fur. Both sides are firmly entrenched in their points of view and making an informed decision can be difficult. As I was doing research...
View ArticleWhy Sustainable Clothing Costs More
A\J’s Fashion issue explores the social and ecological impacts of “fast fashion.” In “Picking Up the Threads,” Kelly Drennan of Fashion Takes Action explains how low prices and über-trendiness come at...
View ArticleMend Your Wears
Not getting new shoes until the old ones wore out, darning the toe hole in the end of a sock, patching a favourite pair of jeans for the third time; these practices are no longer a reality for most of...
View ArticleFrom Solidarity to Sustainability
Sad and grey: this is how I remember the Poland of the late 1980s and the early 90s. As a child, I felt overwhelmed by the depressing cityscapes and monotonous, boring design shaping the reality around...
View ArticleA Stitch in Time (wastes less)
When my Austrian grandma passed away, I found her 20-year-old Dirndl in her wardrobe. Although it was much too big for me, I was emotionally unable to throw it away. Eventually, I decided this Dirndl...
View ArticleWhy We Upcycle
In 2016, the magazine TakePart reported that 26 billion pounds (11,800,000 tonnes) of textile is tossed into US landfills each year. You might donate clothing in hopes that someone will re-love it, but...
View ArticleBuy Good Feel Good Highlights
We had a great time at the 2018 Buy Good Feel Good Expo in Toronto! Here are a few highlights from the event. read more
View ArticleClothing rental could be the key to a stylishly sustainable fashion industry
A staggering 235 million items of unwanted clothing were forecast to be dumped in UK landfill in 2017, while the average American is estimated to bin 81 pounds (37kg) of used clothing annually.read more
View ArticleEditorial 43.3/4 Education/Lifestyle (Double Issue)
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” - Socratesread more
View ArticleWear the Change
This is the first in a four-part series on Project: Trashion, a student-led initiative at the University of Waterloo that examines issues of sustainability in the fashion industry through art and...
View ArticleWorld of Thrift
This is the second in a four-part series on Project: Trashion, a student-led initiative at the University of Waterloo that examines issues of sustainability in the fashion industry through art and...
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