Last Thursday marked the six month anniversary of a garment factory collapse that killed 1133 people and injured a further 2500. Sadly the infamous Rana Plaza incident in Dhaka, Bangladesh is not [...]
Lyla Patel, Head of Education at TRAID Back in April last year I was joined at Shoreditch House by Lyla Patel from the Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development charity TRAID. For [...]
Today is a good day to talk about the Green Wardrobe. It’s a day of a world first, the Best Actress Award at the oscars was presented by a man (Colin Firth) in a preworn Tom Ford tuxedo and [...]
As we start 2012, to help you make your wardrobe sustainable, we launch the 12 Rules To Dress By Poster and Wardrobe Shopping Checklist! I have been following these Rules To Dress By since 2008 [...]
Another year has come to an end, which means I have another year worth of fashion buys to share with you. It’s over three years now and to be honest, sometimes it feels like it [...]
UPDATE: you can now download a poster and wardrobe shopping checklist of my Rules To Dress By. At the end of last year, I published ‘A Year in my Wardrobe: Ethical Fashion in [...]
Last week I took part in the Eco Age Frugal Challenge. The task; sharing and wearing only ethical fashion. It wasn’t much of a challenge as that’s every day in my world, but was super [...]
The Vintage festival created by Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway was back this weekend but this time at the Southbank centre. I had such a blast at Vintage at Goodwood last year with Think Act Vote, [...]
Earlier this year, I met the Bespoke Womenswear designer Susie Stone, when I attended a special evening at her studio with Maggie Semple, we bonded over a shared love of fabric and good design. I [...]
Last week, just two days before the referendum we had our final rally that brought together a variety of supporters from different backgrounds including One Foot in the Grave actor Richard [...]