Beyond Green: Dutch Sustainable Fashion Event
Monday, November 10th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »Event tip: this Wednesday 12 November there is an international symposium entitlied Beyond Green, A Fashion Odyssey in the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam. The aim of the symposium is to provide information to students and teaching staff in higher education, ...
Fair Trade Week in Germany
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fair Trade | 3 Comments »From next week, it's Faire Woche (Fair Trade Weeks) in Germany. All over the country there are local events to promote fair traded products, and the events go from local charity groups that do an action, to lectures and festivals. In ...
Clothingbrand Tchibo Print their own Anticommercials
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »"This T-shirt is sewn by a child for Tchibo" stands on the shirt. Clothing company Tchibo offers a new print-on-demand service, where you can send in your own texts to be printed. Dr. Kirstin Brodde, German textile expert and editor for ...
womens day & the garment industry: it’s women’s sweat on your shirt
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Blog | No Comments »About a billion people (!) are working in textile related industries worldwide. Many of them are women, working from home, in slum situated sweatshops or high tech factories. As known, the circumstances are not always that funky. Without drawing to all ...