Tag: #SecondHandSeptember

Michaela Coel launches Oxfam’s #SecondHandSeptember to fight throwaway fashion

Stuart Mitchell

In this year’s campaign, Coel showcases Oxfam clothing which will be sold in a pioneering Selfridges pop-up shop as part of a month-long campaign celebrating second hand The BAFTA award-winning actor, director, screenwriter, producer, playwright and poet Michaela Coel is the new face of Oxfam’s #SecondHandSeptember campaign, which is designed to raise awareness about the impact of fast fashion on the planet and garment workers. Coel will feature in the windows of more than 500 Oxfam shops nationwide, showcasing clothing from the Oxfam Online Shop, and the clothes that she…

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#SecondHandSeptember slashes UK shoppers’ carbon footprint by 1500 tonnes – the same emissions equivalent to driving a car around the world 200 times

Stuart Mitchell

Tens of thousands of people have made a difference tackling climate change by pledging to only buy preloved clothing during Oxfam’s #SecondHandSeptember campaign. More than 62,000 people took the #SecondHandSeptember pledge, including a host of famous faces – top designers Vivienne Westwood and Henry Holland, fashion icon and singer Paloma Faith, models Stella Tennant, Lily Cole and Georgia Jagger, and actress Rachel Weisz. Oxfam hopes the campaign will increase general awareness and encourage people to modify their shopping habits as a step towards more sustainable consumption. In one month, more…

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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…

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