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Tag Archives: FAIRTRADE
Liv Organic Fashions ‘For Life, For Style’
Liv is a small clothing brand with big ideas. They believe that fashion can be beautiful and ethical, thinking clearly evident in their products. Liv first launched in 2005 with the belief that by building an ethical and sustainable business … Continue reading
Posted in Ethical Fashion, Fashion, Retail, Sustainable textiles
Tagged ethical fashion, FAIRTRADE, Indian cotton, Liv, organic clothing, UK manufacturing
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Politicising Consumption: The Ethical Consumer
“Ultimately everyone thinks about themselves I think and it saves you money, affects your local environment, you go for it, but it’s very hard to see the effects of fair trade; you don’t know . . . They are all … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Fair trade, PhD
Tagged ethical consumption, FAIRTRADE, political consumption
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Ethical Fashion Resources
This list of resources includes some of the key texts that I have come across over the last two to three years. It doesn’t cover every area of ethical fashion as the selections are based on my own research interests. … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, Sustainable textiles
Tagged ethical, Ethical Fashion Forum, FAIRTRADE, fashion books, sweatshop
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Fairtrade Fairmined Gold
People involved in mining gems and metals don’t generally get as much press as the banana or cotton growers, but serious problems exist in these industries. With the world market price of gold soaring, fair treatment of the miners is … Continue reading
Fair( )trade
Fair trade: The more I think about it the more confusing it gets. I learnt a lot more about it at the social labelling conference from people who work for the key fair trade organisations. First there’s the fact that … Continue reading
Social Labelling Conference
Last week I went to an ethical fashion conference held at Northumbria University. It was focused on social labelling which is very relevent to my MPhil thesis question, ‘How to communicate the environmental and social impacts of producing a cotton … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Fair trade, Sustainable textiles
Tagged conference, FAIRTRADE, manufacture, Mphil, People Tree, social labelling, thesis
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