The Impact of Fashion
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Fashion is the only industry that touches on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Our task is to make sure that its impact is a positive one.
With that in mind, we are thrilled to announce our newest partnership with Shamini Dhana and her company Dhana—leaders in advancing a more sustainable and just fashion industry.
In our partnership, we’ll be introducing the social, environmental, and economic challenges facing the fashion industry, presenting a fuller picture of the industry’s impact so we can better understand where change is needed and where opportunity lies.
We’ll be sharing interviews with experts in the industry, deep-dive posts like these, and much more.
Campaign Overview:
- Article: The Rana Plaza Collapse
- Interview: Circular Fashion with Shamini Dhana
- Interview: Inclusivity & Sustainability in Fashion with Cassell Ferere
- Interview: How to Avoid Fast Fashion with Amy Hall
- Interview: Linear to Circular Fashion Economy with Asheen Phansey & Monica Park
- Interview: Leadership in Fashion for the Next Generation with Caroline Priebe
- Interview: How to Reduce (& Repurpose) Global Textile Waste
- Interview: Transparency in Fashion & Fashion Activism with Orsola de Castro
- Interview: How to Create a Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain with Mandeep Soor
- Interview: How Fashion Can Make Sustainability Fashionable with Lucy Shea
- Interview: What’s the True Cost of the Fashion Industry? With Andrew Morgan
- Interview: How Technology and the Future of (Sustainable) Fashion Collide with Ayesha Barenblat
- Interview: Sustainable Denim: Is it Possible? with Laura Vicaria
- Interview: How to End Fast Fashion with Ayesha Barenblat
- Interview: The Evolution of Eco Fashion with Marci Zaroff
- Interview: A New Guide for Sustainable Textiles with Krystle Moody Wood
- Our Partner: Dhana
How Fashion Can Make Sustainability Fashionable
Joining us in this episode is Lucy Shea, CEO of the change agency Futerra, to talk about sustainability in the fashion industry and why the fashion industry matters. She shares her thoughts on what she believes to be the most effective and respectful route towards change, and why she considers a living wage to be an absolute necessity for the future of our planet.
We answer questions like:
- Why does the fashion industry matter?
- Which brands are becoming part of the solution and what are they doing to accelerate change?
- What is “Swishing”, and how/why did Lucy come up with the term?
Click here to read the post and listen to our episode on how to make sustainability fashionable.
How to Measure, Manage, & Create a Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain
In this episode, we chat with Mandeep Soor, CEO and Co-founder of bendi, about the progression of the company as they delve deeper into measuring and defining sustainability, the challenges and roadblocks her clients face, and her predictions for the future of fashion and technology.
We answer questions like:
- Why is the statement ‘sustainable fashion’ fraught with challenges?
- How is sustainability more of a spectrum rather than a goal?
- What is the future of fashion as a whole?
Click here to read the post and listen to our episode on the fashion supply chain.
What is the True Cost of the Fashion Industry? (Has it Changed?)
In this conversation, we chat with Andrew Morgan, Director of the film The True Cost, a documentary about the global impact of the fashion industry. We discuss his love of filmmaking and storytelling, how he first decided to pursue this documentary without any prior interest in fashion, and how his understanding of the world has shifted in the years since it was first released.
We answer questions like:
- What systemic changes are necessary to influence the future of fashion to be more equitable, sustainable, and humane?
- How has his work influenced the way he parents?
- How do we remain hopeful when change doesn’t happen fast enough?
Click here to read the post and listen to our episode on the true cost of fashion.
Why Transparency in Fashion and Fashion Activism are Keys to a Fashion Revolution
In this podcast episode, we discuss the critical role and current state of transparency in fashion with Fashion Revolution’s founder, Orsola de Castro.
We answer questions like:
- What is transparency?
- What is fashion activism?
- What does fashion activism look like?
Click here to read the post and listen to our episode on transparency in fashion.
How to End Fast Fashion Factories and Improve the Lives of Garment Workers
In this episode, host Cory dives deep into factory working conditions and provides a roadmap for protecting garment workers and advocating for a better future together, with Ayesha Barenblat, Founder & CEO of Remake.
We answer questions like:
- What are the conditions like in fast fashion factories?
- Why is fast fashion labor hard to regulate?
- How should the fashion industry treat workers?
Click here to read the post and listen to our episode on fast fashion factories.
The Evolution of Eco Fashion: What it Means and How it’s Changed
In this podcast episode, Cory spoke with eco lifestyle expert and serial social entrepreneur Marci Zaroff about fast fashion, its environmental impacts, and how brands are joining the momentum to disrupt the fashion industry as we know it.
We answer questions like:
- What does “eco fashion” mean?
- Why is eco fashion important?
- When did the eco fashion movement start?
Click here to read the post and listen to our episode on eco fashion.
Sea, Soil, and Circularity: A New Guide for Sustainable Textiles
In this podcast episode, we’ll discuss the current environmental impacts of the textile industry and how we, as both consumers and companies, have the power to ignite systematic change at every level, with Krystle Moody Wood from Materevolve.
We answer questions like:
- What is the textile industry’s impact on the environment?
- How can consumers better support sustainable textiles?
- How can companies and corporations better support sustainable textiles?
Click here to read the post and listen to our episode on sustainable textiles.
Sustainable Denim: Is it Possible?
In this episode, we chat with Laura Vicaria about the challenges and opportunities of producing sustainable denim and how MUD Jeans is leading the way for eco-friendly fashion.
We answer questions like:
- What’s the environmental impact of denim?
- Can denim be sustainable?
- How should you take care of your denim?
Click here to read the post and listen to our podcast on sustainable denim.
How Technology and the Future of (Sustainable) Fashion Collide
In this episode, Faith Legendre chats with us about using technology to extend the useful life of garments indefinitely.
We answer questions like:
- What are the environmental impacts of fashion?
- How can technology improve sustainability in the fashion industry?
- How does technology change the fashion industry workforce?
Click here to read the post and listen to our podcast on the future of tech fashion.
How to Reduce (& Repurpose) Global Textile Waste
In this podcast episode, we chat with Stephanie Benedetto about the magnitude of textile waste and how technology can reroute unused textiles from the landfill to new customers.
We answer questions like:
- What are textiles?
- What are the different types of textile waste?
- Why is textile waste a problem?
Click here to read the post and listen to our podcast on how to reduce textile waste.
The New Fashion Entrepreneur: What Leadership in Fashion Must Look Like for the Next Generation
In this podcast episode, we chat with Caroline Priebe about being a fashion entrepreneur.
We answer questions like:
- How does one become a successful fashion entrepreneur within this new industry?
- What does it mean to be a socially responsible fashion entrepreneur?
- Why is circular design so important?
Click here to read the post and listen to our podcast on being a fashion entrepreneur.
How to Get from a Linear to a Circular Fashion Economy
In this podcast episode, we chat with Asheen Phansey and Monica Park about how business solutions can help us break the fast fashion cycle.
We answer questions like…
- What is circularity?
- What is the circular fashion economy?
- Why go circular, and how can we get there?
Click here to read the post and listen to our podcast on the circular fashion economy.
How to Avoid Fast Fashion: Solutions & A New Relationship to Our Clothes
In this episode of the podcast, we chat with Amy Hall about solutions to the fast fashion industry.
We answer questions like:
- What is fast fashion?
- How can we avoid fast fashion?
- What is sustainable fashion??
Click here read and listen to our podcast on fast fashion solutions.
Inclusivity, Exclusivity, and Sustainability in Fashion
In this podcast episode, we talk with Cassell Ferere about sustainability in fashion and how the movement can be exclusive.
We answer questions like…
- What does sustainability mean in fashion?
- What are the implications of an exclusive sustainable fashion movement?
- How can sustainable fashion be more inclusive?
Click here to read the post and listen to the podcast on sustainability in fashion.
The Rana Plaza Collapse: What Happened & What it Means for the Fashion Industry
In April of 2013, the Rana Plaza building collapsed, killing 1,132 people and maiming more than 2,500 others. This tragedy became a symbol of the fashion industry’s impact and need for sustainable reform.
In this post we answer the questions…
- What happened to the Rana Plaza?
- What was the cause of the Rana Plaza collapse?
- What were the effects of Rana Plaza on Fashion?
Click here to learn about the Rana Plaza Collapse.
How Can Circular Fashion Reverse Climate Change?
In this podcast episode, we talk with Shamini Dhana about sustainability and the future of fashion.
We answer questions like…
- What is Circular Fashion?
- What does real “Sustainability” need to look like in Fashion?
- How can we all get involved in changing the industry for the better?
Click here to read the post and listen to the podcast on Circular Fashion.
Our Partner: Dhana
Dhana is a fashion technology company that aims to unite humanity through fashion and reduce the impact the fashion industry has on climate change.
Dhana’s Founder, Shamini Dhana, is on a mission to connect people more deeply to the clothes they wear and how those clothes were made to advance a new frontier of fashion.
Shamini is a leader in the sustainable fashion industry and serves as a board member for Climate Ride, Ethical Fashion Forum, and even served as an Associate Producer of The Trust Cost film.
Check out our friends at Dhana, or learn about other Grow Ensemble partners here.
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