This is Author Dayana Sobri’s powerful story on mental health, recovery, and slow fashion. At FASHINFIDELITY, we’ve long believed that conversations around mental health deserve more visibility—especially within the world of fashion, consumerism, and content creation. Enter Dayana Sobri, author of Torn Between Desires: Exploring the Depths of Mental Health and Compulsive Shopping, a book that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kempen fesyen lestari di Malaysia: tahukah anda fesyen lestari telah dipraktikkan sejak zaman sebelum Malaysia merdeka? 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 impak industri fesyen terhadap alam sekitar semakin meningkat terutama nya […]
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 2018. Ah, the years go by so fast! In case you didn’t know, FASHINFIDELITY was born to facilitate the sustainable fashion conversation that I am so passionate about from a holistic […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]