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7 Ethical Fashion Brands For Fashion Revolution Week!

n4mummy — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:13:59 +0000

Tomorrow it will be 6 years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh where 1,134 people were killed and over 2,500 were injured. The building was home to factories making clothes for the UK high street for…

How Do You Know If A Brand Is Ethical?

n4mummy — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 07:00:09 +0000

Oooo that’s a million dollar question, how do you know if a brand is ethical? A friend asked me this recently and I realised that the answer isn’t as straightforward as it might seem. The very fact that you are…

In need of a Revolution

n4mummy — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 06:00:18 +0000

It’s been 4 years since the Rana Plaza building collapsed killing 1138 people and injuring many more. And within the fashion industry nothing appears to be changing. Fashion Revolution encourage us to ask #whomademyclothes ? But transparency is still a…

The 1 Thing You Should Spend Money On….

n4mummy — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 08:34:17 +0000

I have a dear, wise friend. So wise in fact that on Daisy’s second birthday she gave me a present 😉, a book called Style Forever, by Alyson Walsh. The basic premise is that we can’t all look like twenty…

Newlife: turning waste into fashion

n4mummy — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:00:37 +0000

275,000 tonnes of plastic are used each year in the UK, That’s about 15 million bottles per day* Who doesn’t love ice caped mountains and deep cut gorges? No one would deny that our environment is precious. Yet, so often we…

A Tonne of Clothes

n4mummy — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:20:37 +0000

Each year we, that’s you and me, purchase around 1 million tonnes of clothing and discard the same amount. Gulp. Of that about 350,000 tonnes goes to landfill. But before your eyes gloss over and you switch to scanning the…

Are You Going To Brighton Fashion Week?

n4mummy — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 08:00:16 +0000

We’ve had New York, London, Milan and Paris Fashion Week and now we have……Brighton! Yes Brighton Fashion Week is the next event on the Fashion calendar, and this year they are taking a bold move; the entire week is dedicated to…

Could your child’s school uniform be harmful?

n4mummy — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:35:05 +0000

It’s that time of year again. Feet are frantically being measured, new uniforms bought, items labelled, and parents up and down the country are thanking their lucky stars that iron on labels have been invented. The end of summer is…

#whomademyclothes? – Tesco Talks

n4mummy — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:40:15 +0000

Tesco may not be the first brand that comes to mind when you consider ethical trading. However their F&F clothing range aims to deliver “great products at great prices from factories that (they) are proud of”, and they claim that they…

#whomademyclothes? – Boden Responds!

n4mummy — Mon, 11 May 2015 13:08:44 +0000

Two years on from the tragedy of the Rana Plaza building collapsing, a new report from Behind the Barcode shows that within the fashion supply chain, ethically there are still many grey areas. One of the key issues is transparency, 75% of…