Three ways your wardrobe could help you avoid fast fashion

Every wardrobe tells a story and reconnecting with the clothes you already own could reduce your need to buy more fast fashion. Here are three ways to fall back in love with your wardrobe.

Wendy Ward, PhD Candidate, Sheffield Hallam University • conversation
March 11, 2024 ~5 min

Five reasons you should consider renting your outfits this wedding season

If you’re going to a wedding this summer, you should consider renting your outfit.

Amber Martin-Woodhead, Assistant Professor in Human Geography, Coventry University • conversation
May 5, 2023 ~8 min


Fast fashion: why your online returns may end up in landfill – and what can be done about it

Fashion has a notorious environmental footprint, and long-standing fast fashion marketing practices are exaggerating this further.

Patsy Perry, Reader in Fashion Marketing, Manchester Metropolitan University • conversation
Aug. 4, 2022 ~7 min

Love Island and eBay: how the reality show could model a radically sustainable future for its young viewers

Sustainable fashion collaborations show that living an eco-friendly life can be fun - here’s how popular shows can help dismantle consumerism altogether.

Katy Wheeler, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Essex • conversation
June 21, 2022 ~8 min

Sustainable fashion expert: why I'm cutting my wardrobe down to ten items this month

‘Fashion fasts’ are a great way of challenging fast fashion by helping us question how many clothes we really need and reducing fashion consumption.

Amber Martin-Woodhead, Assistant Professor in Human Geography, Coventry University • conversation
March 1, 2022 ~6 min

Sustainability must start with universities if the fashion industry is to change

More and more students want their universities to lead the way on sustainability issues. But are institutions doing enough to produce industry leaders who can meet that challenge?

Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, Professor of Marketing and Sustainable Business at the British School of Fashion (GCU London), Glasgow Caledonian University • conversation
Sept. 17, 2021 ~8 min

Following a t-shirt from cotton field to landfill shows the true cost of fast fashion

Black Friday sales reveal fast fashion extremes. But how does it affect the planet?

Mark Sumner, Lecturer in Sustainablity, Fashion and Retail, University of Leeds • conversation
Nov. 30, 2020 ~7 min

Secondhand clothing sales are booming – and may help solve the sustainability crisis in the fashion industry

Fast fashion is far from green. But the rapid expansion of online clothing resale platforms could help shrink the garment industry's negative impact on the environment.

Cosette Marie Joyner Armstrong, Associate Professor of Fashion Merchandising, Oklahoma State University • conversation
Nov. 16, 2020 ~7 min


'Plastic-free' fashion is not as clean or green as it seems

While natural fibre textiles like cotton have generated an environmentally friendly reputation in recent years they might be just as bad as microplastic textiles like polyester and Nylon.

Kieran Phelan, PhD Researcher in economic geography, University of Nottingham • conversation
June 2, 2020 ~6 min

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