Tag: conscientiousfashionista

So, You Want to be A Sustainable Fashion Designer?

  A guide for all you aspiring fashion designers with a passion for sustainability. With insights from sustainable fashion advocates – Sabi Sohrabi, senior lecturer at Raffles Design Institute, Kate Sala, fashion lecturer at RMIT University and Tess Whitfort, Melbourne-based sustainable fashion designer. We discuss what the role means, local sustainable fashion courses, the skills to success and […]

Middle-Class Fashion, Who?

Our middle class is no longer. With the tightening of our household budget, everyone wants cheap. We don’t sacrifice looking good, so enter Fast Fashion. In 2002, (now Sir) Philip Green bought the Arcadia Group for £850 million. In 2005, his star brand Topshop accounted for £1 billion of UK clothing sales alone for the […]