Author: fashinfidelity
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Mental Health in Fashion Workplaces
10 October 2024 is World Mental Health Day. Today, we honour that mental health is a sustainability issue. Mental health and wellbeing are intricately linked to challenges such as poverty, inequality, work, education, gender, infrastructure, air pollution, access to quality green spaces, peace, and so many others. If we don’t look after our well-being, other aspects of our working,…
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Earth Month reads by FASHINFIDELITY
It’s Earth Month! In case you’ve missed out on our posts about fashion and our wonderful home – here’s your 101 guide to understanding your clothing and consumption habits’ impact on the planet. Whether a new follower or seasoned supporter, these are absolute must-reads! Fashion and Nature Where it all started.. Some key #fashfacts you need to…
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“Wardrobes of the Future,” Kempen Kesedaran dan Pendidikan Untuk Semua
Kempen fesyen lestari di Malaysia: tahukah anda fesyen lestari telah dipraktikkan sejak zaman sebelum Malaysia merdeka? Written by: Zayana Yazed, Fashion Technologist 2124 words, 10 min read Fesyen bukan lagi hanya tentang gaya tetapi juga tentang tanggungjawab terhadap alam sekitar dan masyarakat. Kelestarian fesyen menjadi satu aspek penting dalam era moden ini di mana kesedaran terhadap…
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The State of Sustainable Fashion in Malaysia
It’s 2023 and sustainable fashion has gone mainstream. Where are we at and where we should we be heading in this space? Let’s take a closer look. 1,629 words; 8 mins read. It’s been a bit over five years since I started FASHINFIDELITY from my grandmother’s living room in Kuala Lumpur at the start of…
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Why we should be constructive about the Higg Index, not shame it
2555 words; 12 mins read While we need to set high standards for sustainability in apparel production, are we too woke-washed to realise we mostly offer criticism, but not much else? By now, everyone in fashion has heard about the class action lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York in July 2022 that accused…
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3 Ways to Responsibly Dispose of Your Clothing in Malaysia
1131 words; 5 mins reading time. KonMari-ing your wardrobe? STOP! Read this first. It’s time to re-think before you de-clutter.. Hello, chickens! It’s been a while since I’ve written here, but that’s because I’ve been focusing on delivering high-level, juicy, and more interactive content down at the ‘olde Insta platform. And if there’s one place I’d love…
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Celebrating our shoemaking heritage: how Nelissa Hilman does sustainability differently
If you were born after the 1980’s and asked about Malaysians and shoemaking, you would be forgiven to think that we don’t have either the talent or industry. You’d be easily mistaken to think that Dato’ Jimmy Choo, our biggest Penangite export to fashion, was an exceptionally rare example of a tale of hard work,…
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On Malaysian thrifting, honouring your clothes and not being a ‘sell-out’
6,494 words words; 15 mins reading time. An interview with Haida Yusof-Yeomans, proud sourcing professional of beautiful things and ex-celebrity stylist Here at FASHINFIDELITY we get all sorts of questions from our Malaysian followers but the ones that come up very often is on thrifting and the second-hand clothing scene. If you’ve followed us a…
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Consumerism and materialism: how will this story end?
We won’t heal the world unless we heal ourselves. 2473 words, 12 min read. Recently, I watched the movie, “The Wisdom of Trauma”, a film made by Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo, co-founders of Science and Nonduality. The movie features Dr. Gabor Maté, a renowned speaker and bestselling author who specialises in neurology, psychiatry, and psychology. …
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A Guide to the Perfect Wardrobe.. (is there such a thing?)
If you’re like me and you’re pretty dismayed at fashion’s linkages to enslavement, exploitation, oppression and the cycle of waste and pollution, it’s very likely that we’d often asked ourselves, how do I consume differently? 2637 words, 13 mins read. According to popular resources, the meaning of consume basically is: to ‘take up’, whether it being ingesting…