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Oxfam and Titanic Denim - A greener planet from blue jeans

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Lumikello is a German company creating stylish textiles for the home. Rugs and cushions come in tempting candy colour combinations and are crocheted by a small team using discarded t-shirts, night gowns and sheets that are unfit for use.

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Founder Martta Leskelä employs female Syrian refugees to give them a chance to earn money for their lively hoods, this employment is holistic, moral and fair with an equal wage with fair working hours and suitable conditions. The company strives for high quality, aesthetically attractive and ecologically sustainable products. Their materials are collected rags from manufacturors and their products are thoroughly checked for quality and true hand-craftsmanship design.

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The company also has produced designs for the current pandemic, as face masks become the normal, they aimed for a lightweight, stretchable and reusable product. This contoured design moulds to your unique shape for optimum comfort. The reusable design encourages quality over quantity in tackling the now common waste problem of the one-use face masks.

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With garments made for children that expand as they grow Petit Pli take innovation to the next level creating a crinkled material that is light-weight, flexible and yet durable- perfect for the needs of children exploring the world. Creating a solution for the future sustainability of children's wear. The design reaches from ages 9months to 4 years- that's 7 sizes, that's a lot of possible textile waste avoided!

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Ryan Mario Yasin

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Northern Irish designer Marie Nancarrow founded Titanic Denim in 2015. Made in the heart of Belfast her designs are one-off bespoke handmade 100% recycled denim. Focused on zero waste and also re-vamping old worn denim items, by patching them with second-hand scraps.

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Today Fuastine Steinmetz is based in London where she uses cast-off denim, thrift-shop materials and hand-woven items to make non-mass produced designs. Steinmetz also spins, weaves and dyes materials in her shop to create hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind high fashion with a denim twist.

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HARA designs are made using OEKO-TEX 100 approved organic bamboo fabric and natural plant dyes to ensure top quality. Also ensures that chemicals are not absorbed into the skin.

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Founder and Designer Allie Cameron is passionate about sustainability having explored natural dyes and clothing production in Bali, Indonesia. She focuses on sustainable ethics and practises all the way from her chosen materials to how they are produced.

Partners with the Environmental Justice foundation who work with the most remote and toughest countries in order to bring awareness to human right and environmental abuses that often go unnoticed.

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Katie Jones is a luxury Knit-wear Designer, hand-producing  pieces in London that re-work consumer waste and designer-surplus. In every one of her pieces she instils a "Make do and mend" concept

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What sustainability looks like for Textile Designers

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What sustainability looks like for Textile Designers

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1) Collect and use scrap fabrics and materials. (found, donated, thrifted)

2) Create Multiple use/function designs.

3) High-quality long-lasting one-off pieces & collections.

4) Using and locating sustainable materials. (eco friendly)

5) Use natural dyes instead of synthetic.

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Is it ethical labour practises? Better working conditions? Sweat shop free? Free of child labour? Worker coercion & abuse?

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1) Shopping with sustainable brands.

2) Using clothes for longer periods of time.

3) Buying more expensive clothes but with high quality so they last longer (QUALITY OVER QUANTITY)

4) Utilise recycling, repairing and upcycling clothes (DIY)

6) Shopping second hand.

5) Outfit Planning, buy items that you can mix and match together instead of buying a whole new outfit .

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Fashion Industry’s Impact On The Environment

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Fashion Industry’s Impact On The Environment

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1) 150 Billion garments are produced each year and 2.5 billion pounds of fabric is wasted every year.

2) The Fast Fashion Industry is responsible for 10% of the global carbon footprint in the world.

3) On the other hand, North America also has banned textile wastes from the landfills. Only 15% of the clothing is recycled in America and the rest of the 85% clothing ends up in landfills.

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"In the UK, fast fashion completely dominates the clothing market and companies like Boohoo have been hammering their customers with ‘lockdown’ marketing, offering cheap versions of loungewear and activewear to quarantine in. Never ones to miss a sales opportunity, coronavirus has provided the fashion industry with new innovative ways to sell people even more products, at the potentially deadly expense of their workers. The investigation is extraordinary, sources range from factory workers themselves to the owners who all say the same thing, in order to produce such cheap clothing, exploitation is required."

"There is no redemption for fast fashion, no alternative ethical model in which workers rights are prioritised."

Exploitation and sweatshops are at the core of fast fashion: It’s time to dismantle the system | Living (euronews.com)

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EXPLOITATION AND SWEATSHOPS ARE AT THE CORE OF FAST FASHION: IT’S TIME TO DISMANTLE THE SYSTEM

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EXPLOITATION AND SWEATSHOPS ARE AT THE CORE OF FAST FASHION: IT’S TIME TO DISMANTLE THE SYSTEM

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Boohoo slavery Investigation.

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It’s time to dismantle fast fashion and its exploitative practices

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Frankie Leach argues that “there is no redemption for fast fashion” in the wake of the Boohoo slavery scandal.

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"Shopping for clothes used to be an occasional event. People used to shop during the season change or when they outgrew what they already had. Then an era came where clothes became cheaper and trends started changing. People could now easily afford the clothes worn by their favourite celebrity."

"The Fashion Industry is huge! These days one out of six people work in the Fashion Industry. Most of these people live in developing countries. Companies like Forever 21 and H&M promised to provide jobs to these people. But the reality is that the fashion industries have been exploiting its workers. They have come under fire for things from Child Labour to forcing its workers to handle hazardous chemical agents. They underpay their workers and make them work for hours without a break."

Exploitation and sweatshops are at the core of fast fashion: It’s time to dismantle the system | Living (euronews.com)

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Consider the longevity of fabrics & garments? Do you advocate buy less & choose well? Quality not Quantity? Slow fashion?

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Are you a designer that does everything yourself? Small batch production vs mass production