The catastrophic fire, which destroyed over 60% of the market retail spaces and impacted 10’000 people highlights the fashion industry’s ongoing refusal to confront the waste crisis it perpetuates. 

Black Friday’s ultra-low prices not only devalue their labour but also drive a culture of disposability, where garments are bought on impulse and discarded almost immediately—at great cost to both people and the planet.

Fashion is unequivocally a feminist issue. The fashion industry and how it functions has become entirely reliant on profiting from the exploitation and disempowerment of women. Particularly women of colour, in the Global South, who account for 80% of garment workers.

The Or Foundation, founded by Liz Ricketts and Branson Skinner, is a not-for-profit working in both the USA and Ghana, challenging the dominant fashion model and the colonial practice behind the secondhand supply chain.

Jeremy Hutchison is a British artist employing art and performance as a means to disrupt systems of power. This work is a portrayal of the secondhand clothing trade, challenging the dominant ideology of waste colonialism, through a performance in which he subverts his own position as a white male consumer. 

Casa Nushki is an ethical fashion brand weaving stories of sisterhood and sustainability. Founded by Anushka Shah in Fes, Morocco, Casa Nushki is combining artisanally made fabrics with sexy, classic and chic silhouettes to create clothing that empowers both the women who wear her clothes and the women who have made her clothes.

Hazar Jawabra is a female Palestinian knitwear designer, transforming threads of yarn into captivatingly bold and ornate wearable pieces of art.

Sustainability has become a buzzword. It’s been on the tip of everyones tongue for a while now and while it’s great that the industry wants to talk about sustainability, it’s also become problematic.

An organisation that is working hard to prevent the loss of cultural heritage among displaced communities is The Milaya Project, a non-profit founded by Nora Lorek and Nina Strochlic after a visit to Bidibidi - one of the largest refugee settlements in the world.

Post-consumer clothing donations are burdening communities with the role of managing excessive volumes of waste that they played no part in creating, which is causing environmental degradation, destroying local textile industries and placing communities in severe debt cycles.

The fashion industry’s insatiable demand for resources is driving the alarming deforestation of the Rainforest, unraveling its intricate ecosystem and threatening the livelihoods and the home of indigenous communities.

With non-Western and culturally diverse identities already at risk of decimation in the face of the fashion industry, now, with climate change increasingly driving human displacement, mostly in regions in the Global South, the cultural heritage and identities of displaced communities are under increasing threat.