Tag: fashioneducation

Torn Between Desires – A Tale of Emotional Spending to Healing

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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? ​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 […]

The State of Sustainable Fashion in Malaysia

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 […]

Why We Should Be Constructive About the Higg Index, Not Shame It

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 H&M of deceiving consumers about […]

3 Ways to Responsibly Dispose of Your Clothing in Malaysia

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 […]

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, […]

On Malaysian thrifting, honouring your clothes and not being a ‘sell-out’

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 […]