Australians send 6000kg of fashion and textile waste to the tip every ten minutes but on Sunday October 20th, The Fashion Advocate is set to save 2500 designer and pre-loved items from landfill.
The Kangan Institute Rags to Runway showcase proved that through collaboration and the right motivation, sustainability is genuinely possible for the fashion industry.
Vintage fashion is the antitheist of fast fashion, and buying preloved clothing is a sustainable way to shop. If it’s not something you’ve ever done before, now is the perfect time to dip your toes in a world of all things yesteryear.
The Raisin Dit It now in its fifteenth year of operation, but it’s been a unique slow fashion label with a vintage-inspired twist from the very beginning.
I recently featured in the Herald Sun and my hero image aptly sums up how excited I was. I share news and interviews with Australian brands through The Fashion Advocate blog on a weekly basis, but it's not often the tables are turned and I get the opportunity to share mine.
I’m a thrift shopper from way back. Growing up in a small country town meant little shopping diversity, so I would trawl my local op shops for vintage treasures and unique finds.
Unique prints, Tortoiseshell glasses, voluminous skirts and lashings of red lipstick; these are just a few of the many things I love about vintage fashion.
The Victoria & Albert Museum has played host to numerous spectacular fashion exhibitions, and as much as I have enjoyed these specialty displays in the past, my favourite part of the museum’s Fashion Room has always been, and always will be, it’s permanent tribute to fashion throughout the ages.
