Tag Archives: sustainability

H&M sustainability report

H&M needs more than a conscious collection

The path to sustainability For a few months now, the fast fashion retailer H&M has been talking about a Conscious collection, somehow involving sustainability and a more ethical approach to their manufacturing. Curious, I checked out their website to read more about the initiative.  The

Constant Simplicity Transparent Supply Chain

Ethical Fashion, Transparency and Bamboo

By this point, we can all agree that there are certain ideas and projects in the world of ethical fashion that sound great and even look great, but when you look into the details, there can be holes in their sustainability stories. This is definitely

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An Ethical Fashion Guru

We met Michael Lavergne on Twitter and from the beginning, we knew we had found someone special. Michael has over two decade of experience and has traveled the world in a search for more sustainable manufacturing for several corporations and has top-edge knowledge on supply

Offset Warehouse Ethical and Sustainable Fabrics

Ethical fashion: it all starts with the fabric

When searching for ethical fashion resources and shops, it is easy to find vaguely described and poorly presented products that hope to derive their value from including the words “sustainable”, “fair” or “ethical”. But there are a few gems out there that not only offer

The Economics of Fashion: Externalities

Externalities An externality is the (possitive or negative) effect of a given activity caused on a third party that did not participate directly in such activity. Common negative externalities include air pollution on a community produced by a manufacturing company and noise from construction work that affects the nearby