Brexit and the Fashion Industry
BREXIT AND THE FASHION INDUSTRY
On June 23rd 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union by a ...
12
Aug
15
Apr
Fabrics, Circularity + Innovation
The high-street has led us to believe that a t-shirt should cost £5. Sometimes less, sometimes a tiny bit more. Pricing in the fashion industry is a mess – there has been many times when I have been on the lookout for sustainable options to add to my wardrobe and found myself wincing at the prices.
25
Apr
Fashion Revolution Week 2020 Quiz
Time to go old skool: grab yourself a pen + paper to note down your answers then see how well you di...
21
Apr
Inside Textile Waste – Fashion Revolution Week 2020
INSIDE TEXTILE WASTE
"This year Fashion Revolution Week is highlighting the importance of using wha...
19
Apr
5 Tips to Help You Care For Your Clothes
Ten thousand (yes, ten thousand!) items of clothing are being sent to landfill every five minutes in...
27
Feb
Introducing RePack: A Low Waste Alternative to Packaging
As the volume of waste that the UK produces is ever increasing and distributing recyclable waste is ...
14
Nov
Fair Pay in the Fashion Industry – Living Wage Week 2019
It’s National Living Wage Week in the UK. A huge part of the sustainable fashion movement is to create more transparency: to make consumers aware of who made their clothes, under what conditions and for what rates of pay. As a living wage employer this is a cornerstone to everything we do here at The Emperor’s Old Clothes.
16
Apr
Fashion Revolution Week 2019
We have lots of exciting projects and events coming up for Fashion Revolution Week 2019 – we’d love those of you local to Brighton/Sussex to join us. Sustainable fashion + shopping locally + educating yourself = conscious consumerism at it’s best
05
Apr
Behind the scenes of becoming more size inclusive as a brand
A behind the scenes look at how our brand is becoming more size inclusive, it’s a look at the mistakes and assumptions I’ve made as a business owner and an update on our commitments to diversity and inclusivity for the rest of 2019.
19
Feb
Recycling dead stock as a sustainable fashion brand
Recycling and specifically fabric recycling is super important in sustainable fashion and in the fashion industry as a whole. ‘Dead stock’ is a problem if you’re churning out millions of garments a season but small-scale operations like us can be way more innovative + creative with our solutions.
