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Fashion Revolution Week highlights small businesses to bring sustainable change

Fashion Revolution Week is starting this Saturday, and a new project called 'Small but Perfect' will make its debut at the Fashion Revolution Open Studio. The project recognises that small businesses can play a significant role in making the fashion industry more sustainable. Small businesses can lay the groundwork for more comprehensive...

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Fashion Revolution Week 2022 explores the theme of Money Fashion Power

Fashion Revolution Week 2022 is under way and this year’s theme is Money Fashion Power. Running until 24 April, Fashion Revolution Week (FRW) brings together the world’s largest fashion activism movement surrounding the anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, with the aim to collectively reimagine a just and equitable fashion system for...

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Video: Is this the end of mass consumption? Fashion Revolution asks experts

Fashion Revolution hosted a live panel discussion titled "Fashion Question Time" featuring five fashion professionals and hosted by Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey. The panel discussion occuring during Fashion Revolution Week, allows experts to debate what the future looks like for the fashion industry. The theme of this year's discussion: Mass...

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#Whatsinmyclothes: The truth behind the label

In 2019 Circle Economy was commissioned by the Dutch Ministry for Infrastructure and Waterways to investigate the accuracy of composition labels in clothes. Using the Fibersort machine, over 10.000 garments were tested: in 41 percent of cases the garment composition labels did not match the composition of the garment. As Fashion Revolution week...

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Video: Worldwide Talks 2020 by Fashinnovation day 1 online now

Convened in collaboration with the UN Office of Partnerships, Fashinnovation is assembling a 2 Day online summit in partnerships with the Conscious Fashion Campaign with a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals. International leaders in the fashion & technology industries will gather from around the world to connect with one another as well...

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Fashion Revolution Week 2020: more relevant than ever

From 20th to 26th April, Fashion Revolution Week will be held again worldwide to raise awareness for those who made our clothes and under what conditions. Established in 2014 after the Rana Plaza disaster, this year it is particularly important to remember and take action, because in the wake of the global Covid 19 pandemic and the resulting...

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Rana Plaza: a tragedy remembered

Six years ago, on 24th April 2013, 1,138 garment workers in Bangladesh lost their lives, ultimately because of an industry that placed deadlines and profits before human lives. Rana Plaza, the building that housed five garment factories among other establishments, had not evacuated those who toiled for the least: garment workers barely making...

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What to expect in fashion news from week 17, 2019

What’s going on in the world of fashion this week? FashionUnited takes a look ahead at the upcoming news and events for the 17th week of the year. Below are the main points from the editorial agenda in the period between 22-28 April, 2019. Fashion Revolution Week(22-28 April) Fashion Revolution Week starts globally on Monday, April 22, on Earth...

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Global fashion brands show “shamefully” low levels of transparency

London - Global fashion brands must do more on transparency, Fashion Revolution has warned as its launches its inaugural Fashion Transparency Index to mark the start of Fashion Revolution Week, which runs from April 18-24. The report comes ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed...