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Posts in the Ethical Fashion category

• Ethical fashion?

  

  By Maria Chenoweth.

  April 29, 2021

  • Climate Crisis
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  TRAID’s CEO Maria Chenoweth reflects on the impacts of one year of running the charity during the Covid pandemic. Read More...

• Welcoming back our customers

  

  By Leigh McAlea.

  June 23, 2020

  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • TRAID Charity Shops
  TRAID charity shops have been closed since March when we went into lockdown and so, it was with some delight […] Read More...

• Meet Reuse Maker: Helen Kirkum

  

  By Helen Kirkum.

  May 11, 2020

  • Clothes Reuse
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  • Reuse
  • Up-cycling
  TRAID: Your reimagined trainers are extraordinary, like pieces of collage. What’s your background and what inspired you to make shoes […] Read More...

• Rana Plaza: Seven Years On

  

  By Leigh McAlea.

  April 23, 2020

  • Ethical Fashion
  • Fashion Industry
  • Social Justice
  Friday 24th April 2020 is the seventh anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed […] Read More...

• Interview with Dana Thomas, author of Fashionopolis.

  

  By Dana Thomas.

  April 14, 2020

  • Ethical Fashion
  • Fashion Industry
  For thirty years, Dana Thomas has covered the fashion and apparel industry for the Washington Post, the New York Times, […] Read More...

• What Your Shoes are Doing to the World

  

  By Tansy Hoskins.

  March 30, 2020

  • Education
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  We are delighted to welcome author and journalist Tansy Hoskins to talk about her recently published book, ‘Foot Work, What […] Read More...

• Meet Dinki Human

  

  By Ester Ford.

  October 2, 2019

  • Ethical Fashion
  Meet Ester Ford, founder of Dinki Human, a sustainable clothes brand for kids and babies. They created a special ‘Earth […] Read More...

• EAC calls for more regulation of the fashion industry

  

  By Andrea Speranza.

  February 19, 2019

  • Campaigns
  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has today published its final report on its inquiry into the sustainability of the fashion […] Read More...

• MPs puts fast fashion under scrutiny

  

  By Leigh McAlea.

  November 26, 2018

  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  Tomorrow, Tuesday November 27th, an unprecedented investigation by MPs will take place when some of our best-known high street retailers […] Read More...

• Naturally dyed, ethically hand-made

  

  By Josie George.

  October 22, 2018

  • Environment
  • Ethical Fashion
  Josie George, co-founder at AMMA, talks to TRAID about how this social enterprise is providing employment and life skills to […] Read More...

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