Tag: capitalism

Consumerism and Materialism: How Will This Story End?

We won’t heal the world unless we heal ourselves.   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.  If you haven’t watched […]

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? According to popular resources, the meaning of consume basically is: to ‘take up’, whether it being ingesting food, use resources, buying goods […]

What’s Eating Fashion Today? Part 2: Radical Transparency

Now that we’ve laid some groundwork on fashion’s supply chain management and agility to respond to a volatile market, let’s continue to highlight the other trends niggling at fashion today.  Part 2: Radical Transparency  One of the things that often gets missed in the realm of fashion activism or ‘sustainable’ manufacturing is that nobody really […]

What’s Eating Fashion Today? Part 1: Demand Volatility

The fashion industry is huge.  Like, HUGE huge. It has so many moving parts to it since the advent of current-day globalisation has let #fashion manufacture their clothes via a global assembly line. If you’re reading this blogpost then you would have some knowledge already about the origins of fast fashion and its predecessor–high-street fashion —but to recap, I’ll […]