On Reimagining Fashion: An Update from Fashion Roundtable's Founder and CEO Tamara Cincik
It is clear that fashion and positive activism are now firm allies. Fashion Roundtable has been a key player in this shift: our two recent reports have highlighted the structural issues inhibiting diverse groups from achieving success, and the environmental and ethical impacts that the industry has on our planet and citizens. But Fashion Roundtable doesn't just shine a light on the problems, what we do is not just pain porn. We unravel the issues with the mission to then solve them— offering opportunities for transformation and pushing for an industry, and in turn society, which is fundamentally more inclusive and more sustainable.
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Rental Fashion In Review: 2020’s success story or climate change contributor?
A study by Environmental Research Letters, a Finnish Scientific Journal, has been causing quite a stir in the industry after The Guardian reported on hidden environmental costs of rental fashion, suggesting in its headline that even landfill may be greener. But renting fashion is still seen as a positive move by sustainable advocates as we make a collective effort to move away from the traditional and wasteful linear model towards alternative systems like the sharing economy. We take a closer look at both sides of the debate…
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Weekly Briefing
Our policy researcher Hilary Marsh presents a roundup of the week's fashion headlines. This week we see a focus on accessibility in fashion and retail, environmental impacts of fashion manufacturing across Africa, and the potential moves that can be made to fix the impact of the fashion industry.
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"Code red for humanity": Cleaning Up Fashion, one of the most potent polluters on the plane
Yesterday's publication of a landmark UN report arguing that global warming could make parts of the world uninhabitable, has rightly thrust the climate crisis into the spotlight. World leaders, including Boris Johnson, have called the report a "wake-up call to the world", as the findings showed that human activity is ‘unequivocally’ responsible for raising global temperatures by around 1.1 degrees since the late 19th century.
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OP-ED: All hairdressers must now cater to Black hair, but how valuable will this be for Black women?
Gone are the days where black models will have to bring their own hair styling tools and style themselves – so we hope. After a recent review by the National Occupational Standards for hairdressing, Afro and ‘Textured’ hair has been included into the styling and cutting practice standard. This means all UK hairdressers will now have to be trained in cutting and styling Afro-textured hair. But how effective will this change will really be for black women? asks Davina Appiagyei.
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APPG for Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion: Cleaning Up Fashion Report
Cleaning Up Fashion examines how the Government and other supportive actors can help amplify sustainability in action, recognising and supporting the work of pioneers and putting an end to exploitation and environmental harm. The report offers clear, evidence-based recommendations that deal with the causes and symptoms of a sector with massive market responsibility, that clothes us all and is global in its economic, environmental and social significance. The ESF APPG hosted a number of parliamentary evidence sessions exploring the issues, as well as conducting a survey with over 110 respondents ranging from business leaders to consumers.
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#NoFilter: Norway paves the way with ban on retouched images
Norway has made it illegal for influencers and advertisers to share promotional photos online without disclosing whether the images have been retouched. With countries like France and Israel already under similar laws for commercial images, there is a call amongst MPs that the UK should follow suit. Notably, Conservative MP Dr Luke Evans, brought this in front of parliament in September last year. It is thought that 1.25 million people in the UK suffer with an eating disorder and a ban like this would be a welcome move in the UK.
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