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PVH Corp. Signs Fashion Pact, Joins Industry Peers to Create More Sustainable Future

Stuart Mitchell

PVH Corp., one of the world’s largest apparel companies and owner of iconic brands, including CALVIN KLEIN, TOMMY HILFIGER, Van Heusen, Speedo, and IZOD, announced it has signed the Fashion Pact, a coalition of more than 30 global fashion and textile companies pledging to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry. There are three key areas of focus: climate, biodiversity and oceans. PVH Corp. signs Fashion Pact, joining industry peers to create more sustainable future. “Forming one powerful and cohesive front at this scale shows how serious the fashion…

Stunning photoshoot of supermodel Stella Tennant and her teenage daughter to promote second-hand fashion

Stuart Mitchell

Supermodel Stella Tennant and her teenage daughter Iris, 14, model Oxfam clothes in a gorgeous photoshoot to protest against the harm fast fashion does to people and planet. The mother and daughter are supporting Oxfam’s  #SecondHandSeptember campaign which asks the nation to pledge to buy second-hand fashion instead of new for 30 days.  All the clothes in the shoot are from the Oxfam Online Shop. The textile industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than the shipping and aviation industries combined. To keep prices low, throwaway fashion is made by garment…

London fashion world joins forces with Oxfam to make a stand against throwaway fashion

Stuart Mitchell

Top designers Vivienne Westwood and Henry Holland, fashion icon and singer Paloma Faith, models Lily Cole and Georgia Jagger, and actress Rachel Weisz, are among the FROW fashion pack backing Oxfam’s #SecondHandSeptember campaign as London Fashion Week kicks off today. Vivienne Westwood donated a handbag, and Henry Holland donated some shoes, all of which will raise money for Oxfam’s work fighting poverty. Oxfam launched #SecondHandSeptember to encourage participants to say no to clothes that harm the planet and the people in it by saying yes to second-hand, as a step…

Asda trials ‘Re-Loved’ clothes shop in store to promote sustainable fashion

Stuart Mitchell

With an estimated £140m worth of clothing going to landfill in the UK each year*, supermarket Asda is helping to find new homes for unwanted clothes with a trial of an in-store ‘Re-Loved’ charity clothing shop.   For 4 weeks from 2nd September, the ‘Re-Loved’ pop-up shop in Asda’s Milton Keynes store will feature donated second-hand clothes from a number of different brands, as the retailer looks at ways to encourage customers to reuse, repurpose or recycle their unwanted clothes. The move is part of a drive by George, Asda’s…

Fast fashion produces more carbon emissions per minute than driving a car around the world six times – Oxfam

Stuart Mitchell

New clothes bought in the UK produce more carbon emissions per minute than driving a car around the world six times, according to new research published today by Oxfam. The research was commissioned as part of Oxfam’s #SecondHandSeptember campaign, which is asking the nation to buy second-hand fashion instead of new for 30 days. The textile industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than the shipping and aviation industries combined. To keep prices low, throwaway fashion is made by garment workers often from the world’s poorest communities, and paid below the…