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Connecting People and Color – Lilou’s color quest

March 1, 2012

“The raison d'être of Lilou is my desire to connect people with 'their' colour. I wanted to take the opportunity and expose people to their colour, the ones that make them feel relaxed, energized, happy, motivated..." says Ingrid Vercruyssen, the textile designer behind Lilou.

Circularity Future Tech Materials

Cradle to Cradle – The design of essence, not only shape

February 16, 2012

Cradle to Cradle is a design methodology that puts a 'waste-less' world at its heart. What is the concept all about? What does it mean for the apparel industry? And who practises it among designers and companies?

Circularity Consumer-ism Globalisation Materials

Where does all the clothing go? – Insights from academic research, but without the jargon

February 2, 2012

The 'Everything must go' exhibition, that took place from January 20 to 22, 2012, introduced the wider public to the details of the global value chain for discarded clothing. Drawing from the results of 5 years of research, the numbers and facts are staggering, and intriguing at the same time.

Brand Portraits Supply Chain

Social businesses hands on: Helping to rebuild Tsunami stricken Eastern Japan

January 19, 2012

The coastal areas of Eastern Japan, while largely unaffected by the grade 9 earthquake from March 11th, 2011, was thoroughly washed away by the tsunami following the quake. Now that the recovery efforts are under way, also fashion companies and fashion related projects contribute their share. An overview of what is happening on the ground to-date.

Brand Portraits Supply Chain

Ethical Fashion & Social Enterpreneurship: The Japanese case

January 12, 2012

At the forefront of the Japanese ethical fashion movement, and commercially the most successful, are social businesses. They're principle strategy is to build a firm base in their own national market, but beyond that Asian markets are their principle expansion area. Design is flexible, but their business principle are everything but.

Brand Portraits Materials

Living Textile Craftsmanship – A Story of Masters and Students

December 29, 2011

Bryan Whitehead is one of the few remaining textile craftsmen in Japan who not only rears his own silk, but masters the whole textile process. Just as he as learned from seasoned crafts people, he now hands his knowledge on to his students. A plea to best of craftsmen and women cherish their expertise by teaching.

Brand Portraits Materials

Kimono as an Art – The World of Itchiku Kubota

December 15, 2011

Itchiku Kubota is possibly the Japanese Kimono artist par excellence. None of his contemporaries have created such a body of work. At the same time, the artist brings the value of craftsmanship, today often ignored or under-rated, to our attention.

Biz Strategy Globalisation

Sustainability in industry and academic research: Heavens for barriers and ‘allotment attitudes’

December 8, 2011

Scientists, engineers, designers and creators. 3 'species' of people that neither in academia, nor in industry collaborate well. Yet, precisely the fashion and textiles industry is so trans-disciplinary that collaboration is a must.

Governance Labour Supply Chain

Australia: Ethical Fashion is about leading by example

November 17, 2011

Contrary to common opinion, ‘Australian-made’ does not always mean ethically made. In some cases salaries as low as AUS$ 4 are paid. Ethical Clothing Australia is campaigning to change their domestic fashion industry from within.

Book Reviews Globalisation

Out of Africa – it’s fashion

October 27, 2011

'Africa' & 'Fashion' in one sentence, usually evokes the picture of the cliché matron wearing an attire in recognisable prints. To prove that these may indeed just be nothing but clichés, and that there is much much more to African Fashion, is this book's mission

Brand Portraits Trade Shows

Ethical Fashion in London 02/2012 – Review and Insights: The Thing with Craftsmanship

February 23, 2012

London Fashion Week is feeling the effects of the global 'austerity' programme with fewer brands participating overall. The gems are still there and worth hunting for. Sometimes though, the gems of previous seasons remain the headlines.

Future Tech Trade Shows

Innovation might just be the necessity of the future. Or is it?

February 9, 2012

The most recent event in the 'Perspectives on Future Sustainable Design' series highlighted the progress made in developing sustainable design approaches. Both, from a theoretical as well as from a systemic point of view. A summary.

Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead - Fair wages - Strengthening Corporate Social Reponsibility

Book Reviews Labour

The mother of all discussions – Fair Wages and the fashion industry

January 26, 2012

The issue of wages in the fashion supply chain is a never ending story: the paid wages, the unpaid wages, those that suffice, or not, for a livelihood. tackles this issue in a very thorough, and at the same time visionary way by laying out a practical frame work for a Fair Wages

Brand Portraits Future Tech

Connecting the dots: Join the present & past, create the future

January 18, 2012

Connecting the present and the past, learning and drawing conclusions from either, is and will remain key to creating a more sustainable fashion industry. So far, learning from the past in particular - in the good and in the bad - has been chiefly neglected. A series of thoughts.

Book Reviews Circularity

The samurai’s self-sustaining society

January 1, 2012

A fascinating book, full of examples, about how traditional Japanese society innovatively survived in a land of scarce resources, over-population and huge cities.

Brand Portraits Consumer-ism Materials

Sashiko – an extinct textile tradition from the heart of Japan’s working class

December 22, 2011

Sashiko - a now extinct Japanese textile technique and tradition which for centuries was used to adorn as much as make garments more durable. A portrait.

Future Tech Globalisation

The Japanese textile and fashion industry – between tradition and high-tech

December 15, 2011

Cotton as an attractive alternative in tsunami regions. Leading textile manufacturers promoting the cultivation of organic cotton. New technologies and methods for natural dyeing processes and recycling. And five categories of Green Fashion in Japan.

Consumer-ism Globalisation Luxury

Luxury – inherently the ‘righter’ approach to combine ethics and fashion?

December 2, 2011

Looking at the sales figures of luxury brands a single conclusion can be drawn: The luxury sector is doing well. The structure of its customers, and the brands' efforts to maintain expert craftsmanship suggests that the luxury sector is where ethical brands really can start changing the world.

Consumer-ism Globalisation Supply Chain

Fair Trade Trends & Europe: The fashion horizon and beyond (II/II)

November 10, 2011

Historically, fair trade has pitch to and sold thanks to consumers' guilt. A grave mistake as the currently ongoing consumption trends show. Quality, exclusivity is what has survived the economic downturn best.

Globalisation

Ten little Injuns … And yet: the future of manufacturing is local