The Hidden Ingredient List of Fashion
How often do you pick up a pair of jeans and wonder if wearing them will put your health at risk? Consumers generally trust that the...
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Virginia Rollando
- Nov 14
- 6 min
Social Procurement | Pt 2: Fashion Supply Chain
SOCIAL PROCUREMENT DIRECT SPEND In a previous blog post we have discussed what Social Procurement means, and how, by sourcing from social...
Virginia Rollando
- Oct 31
- 6 min
Dark Side of Fashion
INTRO The Fashion world can be so exciting, and we love bringing you the most innovative new materials, processes, and ideas. However, we...
Ani Wells
- Oct 24
- 3 min
Mechanical Vs. Chemical Cottonization of Hemp for Textiles with Marmara Hemp
Hemp had a bad reputation due to being classified incorrectly as an illegal drug. That’s why it was kept under wraps among established...
Aisling Gogan
- Oct 17
- 4 min
Weaving a Culture of Care Through Craft
Care culture is an emerging trend in fashion. Ongoing uncertainty in the globe and our increased climate anxiety has left us with the...
Virginia Rollando
- Aug 8
- 3 min
Indigenous rights and traditions in Fashion
Indigenous day was set to be on August 9th, as a reminder to celebrate indigenous cultures.
Virginia Rollando
- Aug 1
- 4 min
Social Procurement | Pt 1: Offices
WHAT IS SOCIAL PROCUREMENT? Social procurement is the act of buying from a social enterprise. Social enterprises are businesses that put...
Virginia Rollando
- Jul 10
- 4 min
Fashion and Biodiversity – SDGs 14 and 15
ECOSYSTEMS Scientists around the world are extremely worried about the changes in ecosystem equilibrium. In fact, it was the second goal...
Virginia Rollando
- Jun 10
- 5 min
7 Types of Waste
The Toyota Model Applied to Fashion What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of efficiency? Google gives a few...
Virginia Rollando
- May 30
- 6 min
Lazy, Real, and Future solutions to Decarbonisation
CARBON FOCUS We are reaching the end of our focus series on climate change and carbon! We started the year off writing about the...
Ani Wells
- May 9
- 2 min
Denim to Denim 👖
A recent program called Denim to Denim was developed to advocate for circularity exploring the real life working experiences of people...
Ani Wells
- May 1
- 1 min
Kingpins + Denim Days Round Up
It was SUCH a joy to be with the denim community IRL again. It was a lot of catching up, but some of the highlights included:
Ani Wells
- Apr 4
- 3 min
Denim 101 x 2 at White Oak Legacy Foundation
I’m a hands-on learner and if you are anything like me, you jump at the chance of a new learning experience! So when I heard White Oak...
Virginia Rollando
- Mar 25
- 6 min
Degrowth
HI READERS, Our last article explained why we must really focus on total impact when talking about sustainability in Fashion. The current...
Virginia Rollando
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Total Impact
Hi readers, if this is your first time here we would like to walk you through the journey that led us to writing this article. We started...
Virginia Rollando
- Feb 14
- 4 min
Navigating The Confusing And Delicate World of LCAs & Carbon Neutrality | Part 2
PART 2 – A CASE STUDY ON THE MANIPULATION OF LCAS When numbers and data points are thrown at us, we tend to take them as the absolute...
Virginia Rollando
- Feb 7
- 7 min
Navigating The Confusing And Delicate World of LCAs & Carbon Neutrality | Part 1
PART 1 – LCA INTRODUCTION, GUIDELINES, BENEFITS, LIMITATIONS, CARBON OFFSETTING AND CERTIFICATIONS Hello reader! First of all, we would...
Virginia Rollando
- Jan 18
- 4 min
Solutions for Fossil Free Energy in Fashion
WHAT SOLUTIONS DOES THE FASHION SUPPLY CHAIN HAVE TO BE POWERED BY 100% FOSSIL FREE ENERGY? THE ROLE OF ELECTRICITY GENERATION IN MEETING...
Virginia Rollando
- Jan 3
- 4 min
Our Thoughts On COP26 And The Fashion Industry
COP26, the event that happened in Glasgow that has taken over the news, but did you understand what it was exactly, what it has achieved (or
Ani Wells
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
Candiani - The Future Of Retail?
Exploring Cadiani Denim's micro-factory retail store offering consumers custom made jeans.