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Radically reimagining the fashion industry with equity and justice for all. We are writers and industry professionals discussing not only why the fashion industry needs to change, but how to do it.

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Kim van der Weerd
Feb 22

Sustainable Fashion: Three Things Advocates of More Ethical Purchasing Practices Should Stop Saying

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Kim van der Weerd
Feb 3

Sustainable Fashion: An Alternative Interpretation of Due Diligence

As a garment factory manager, I…

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Kim van der Weerd
Dec 17, 2020

Making Fashion More Just: Why Isolating Labor Costs is Not the Key to Higher Wages

Factory costs are driven by deviations from forecast. And it’s the fact that suppliers disproportionately bear the…

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Kim van der Weerd
Dec 8, 2020

Why Shared Financial Risk is the Key to Radically Transforming the Fashion Industry

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Manpreet Kaur Kalra
Nov 26, 2020

Capitalism, Racism, and Black Friday

Deconstructing America’s History of Exploitation

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Kim van der Weerd
Oct 27, 2020

On Protecting the Rights of Workers in Subcontracted Factories: How Sustainable Fashion Advocates Get it Wrong

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Kim van der Weerd
Oct 7, 2020

Ethical Fashion: How Singular Narratives of Worker-Management Relations Fail Us

If we’re serious about…

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Kim van der Weerd
Sep 11, 2020

TAL Apparel & Sustainable Fashion’s Language Problem Part 2

The tone of a recent New York Times report…

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Kim van der Weerd
Jul 17, 2020

How Racism Shapes Fashion’s Approach to Sustainability

Sustainable fashion advocates: what are our…

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Kim van der Weerd
Jul 9, 2020

Boohoo & Sustainable Fashion’s Language Problem

How the language of sustainable fashion obscures…

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