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“I would wear them all the time,” I thought as my thumb hovered over the ‘add to cart’ button of a pair of £99 hot pink recycled cotton joggers to match a £124 hot pink recycled cotton hoodie. “I’d feel more pulled together, less scruffy,” I reasoned as…

I can’t quite believe I’m typing this seeing as it’s still somewhere around May in my brain, but it’s nearly Christmas. Mariah Carey is watching her bank balance gain multiple extra zeroes at an exponential rate as we all try and…

I pitched this (or something along these lines) in January just after the study came out and it didn’t get picked up. I then kept thinking about it but didn’t really do anything with the information. Maybe I forgot I…

Although ‘buy less stuff’ will probably be carved into my gravestone because I say it about as often as I blink, I don’t just spend my days sitting in a tranquil, empty white room being a pure anti-capitalist, unburdened by…

Well, here we are again. I’m sitting here in my office which is cooking me from the outside in, waiting to see if my landlord feels like turning up with some viewers or not. Who knows? They’re a lot of…

I expect, after clicking on this post, you’re expecting a comprehensive list of all things sustainable fashion. And you might well get that but, the thing is, I don’t really know. I mean, it sounds like a great idea; I’d…

The number of sustainable womenswear items available online from major retailers in the UK rose by 128% between 1st December 2017 and 28th February 2018, according to WGSN. Although it’s coming from retailers for whom such items represent just a…

You’re with a friend in a bar and a friend of theirs, unknown to you, comes to say hello. They sit down and join you. You chat, the three of you, and it’s all lovely and jovial and perfectly fun…

I, and others like me, like to sell sustainable fashion and ethical living in general as an easy swap. Instead of shopping at X, shop at Y. Don’t buy lots of A, just invest in one B, etc etc etc.…

So, we know that ethical fashion can be expensive. And we also know that in humanitarian and environmental terms, those higher prices are worth every penny. If you can buy solely from ethical and sustainable brands, well done, full points,…