The fashion industry, often associated with fast fashion and environmental concerns especially through greenwashing, is undergoing a slow transformation. Social enterprises around the world are emerging as powerful forces for good, using fashion as a tool to empower communities, promote sustainability, and create positive change. Let's embark on a worldwide journey to explore some of […]
The Universal Struggle for Agency: Connecting Somerset Suffragettes to Budapest’s Textile Workers Branching Out: From Somerset Suffrage to Austro-Hungarian Textiles 👑🧵 Helen G. Pugh’s historical research consistently champions the idea that "herstory" is a worldwide tapestry woven from the threads of female resilience—whether that is the political power of an Inca queen or the activism […]
Local Slow Sustainable Fashion is the core argument of this 2022 book, edited by Ingun Grimstad Klepp and Tone SkĂĄrdal Tobiasson. They argue that the future of clothing isn't in high-tech solutions, but in a radical return to localized production. Valuing natural resources—especially wool—and abandoning the addiction to endless growth. The Book’s Unique Scope […]
