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 […]
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 for you to hang around at, I would totally be OK with you keeping up with FASHINFIDELITY happenings there! As […]
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 while, you may also know that we’re […]
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 […]
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 […]