Tag: sustainability
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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 aspects of our working,…
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The State of Sustainable Fashion in Malaysia
It’s 2023 and sustainable fashion has gone mainstream. Where are we at and where we should we be heading in this space? Let’s take a closer look. 1,629 words; 8 mins read. 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…
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Why we should be constructive about the Higg Index, not shame it
2555 words; 12 mins read 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…
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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? 2637 words, 13 mins read. According to popular resources, the meaning of consume basically is: to ‘take up’, whether it being ingesting…
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What’s Eating Fashion Today? 4 Macrotrends and Industry Insights – Part 4: Purchasing Model
Part 4 of 4 Thanks for sticking with us this far. Today’s post focuses on fashion’s purchasing model, that more than ever, is completely ripe for disruption. This article is part of a series of deconstructing a massive global industry into areas for disruption on the road to #sustainability, by spotlighting 4 macrotrends in fashion’s…
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What’s Eating Fashion Today? 4 Macrotrends and Industry Insights – Part 3: Technology and R&D
Part 3 of 4 895 words; 4 min read. Award-winning Memomi smart mirror. Problem no. 3: Technology and R&D If you’ve been following this series on 4 macrotrends that’s affecting fashion, you’d know by now that fashion has always had a hard time dealing with demand volatility and in today’s market, there’s extra pressures on…
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What’s Eating Fashion Today? 4 Macrotrends and Industry Insights – Part 2: Radical Transparency
Part 2 of 4 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. This article is part of a series of deconstructing a massive global industry into areas for disruption on the road to…
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What’s Eating Fashion Today? 4 Macrotrends and Industry Insights – Part 1: Demand Volatility
Part 1 of 4 1242 words; 6 min read. This article is part of a series of deconstructing a massive global industry into areas for disruption on the road to #sustainability, by spotlighting 4 macrotrends in fashion’s supply chain that we can tackle, right now. The fashion industry is huge. Like, HUGE huge. It has…
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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 what…
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Hatta Dolmat – The Malaysian Sustainable Fashion Experience
Malaysian fashion designer Hatta Dolmat’s sustainable collection showcased at KLFW 2020 last week shows a huge step forward for the local fashion industry and the country’s fight against plastic and textile waste. By Shareena Aziz 1721 words; 8 min read. The week that was Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week (KLFW) has come and gone and this…