WARDROBE CRISIS
WARDROBE CRISIS
By ethical fashion journalist Clare Press
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They’ve dressed cowboys, rock stars & revolutionaries, but how #sustainable is @levis ? 👖This week on the podcast, I grill @michaelkobori Levi’s VP of sustainability. Did you know they’ve set a 40% emissions reduction target by 2025 across their whole supply chain? When governments fail us, can business lead? So interesting. Thank you for sharing your insights Michael. Also, great jacket... 🎧 Links in bio. Recorded at @copenhagenfashionsummit 💙🎤
AUSSIE ANIMALS are the greatest 🌏 My @hokumaustralia scarf features a sulphur crested cockatoo - these guys often descend on my local park in a rowdy gang. They’re doing fine, but plenty of their mates aren’t. In Cape York, the giant black “Ringo Starr” (yep, serious) cockatoo is on the verge of extinction. He is so magnificent & clever that he can make his own instrument out of bark. “They break off a branch, peel back the bark, whittle it down to about 30 cm and they hold it in their foot and tap on the edge of their nest hollow," Prof Robert Heinsohn from ANU who’s been studying the birds since the 90s told @abcnews_au “They have a very good sense of rhythm & different styles of drumming signatures.”🦋 Also, Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinction in the world. 🐨 A Senate inquiry is examining why laws are failing to arrest the trend. Acc to @guardianaustralia less than 40% of Australia’s threatened species have recovery plans in place – established under the Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act - to try to prevent extinction. In March, the federal environment dept admitted it had no idea if even those were being implemented. NATURE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ... & we are part of it. What can you do? Support @wilderness_aus @ausconservation @marineconservation.au 💚 #biodiversity #activism #aussienature #protectnature #riseandresistbyclarepress #parrots
Look at this extraordinary Art Nouveau building I stumbled across this afternoon. Saint-Cyr House was designed by Gustave Strauwen (who was a student of the legendary Victor Horta) when he was just 21. In 1967, the city’s chief architect said it was of “questionable taste” & criticised it as “haphazard” & “a less than harmonious fantasy”. Later the Royal Commission for Monuments and Landscapes recognised its genius, describing it as “… a tumultuous work, of astonishing proportions, which at first glance looks like a theatre set, then reveals itself to be a serious, ordered and logical architectural story.” I love it. I think Art Nouveau is magical. How about you? #brussels #architecture
NOT CHARITY, JUST WORK. Congratulations @ethicalfashion on your Brussels popup shop - so much inspiration & fun at the opening last night hanging out with @jeannedekroon & @rafiodice 💙 Jeanne is wearing her own @zazi.vintage label, #ethicallymade from upcycled #deadstock silks in collaboration with women artisan collectives & the Ethical Fashion Initiative. Raffaella is in her beloved Afghan #slowfashion by @zarifnyc ❤️ We’re working on a special project to tell their stories... #sustainabilityeditor #empowerwomen #fashionforgood
The EU brings countries together. Ordinary people don’t win from division. Together we truly are stronger. Building community is how we strengthen society, centre justice & have our best chance of leaving no one behind. Is there any hope for Britain to avoid Brexit? I wish there was. #brexitblues #togetherwearestronger
Fave @macgrawlove shirt, #vintageearrings from Stockholm. Thanks for having me @ecoage ✈️ Now, to Brussels for a new project with @ethicalfashion
Yesterday afternoon. No filter. Life is beautiful