Fast fashion might be having its moment, but Temu’s recent struggles are a reminder that speed and unsustainable practices eventually come at a cost. Shoppers are growing more aware of the environmental and...

342 million barrels of oil are used every year to make synthetic fibres, and of that, around 70 million are used specifically for polyester. It's hard to contextualise just how much...

Cheap and nasty materials feel horrible to wear and they don't last, so they're not sustainable. If you're running an ethical, circular, handmade or slow fashion brand, your impact strategy should...

Natural fabrics are way better for the environment than synthetic materials, so don't freak out just yet. If you're using cotton over polyester, ten points to you and you're doing great things for...

The fashion industry is evolving rapidly, and those who hesitate may find themselves struggling to catch up. By starting now, you position yourself as a leader in the ethical fashion...

It's a complex problem. A plastic bottle can be recycled up to six times but when we take a plastic bottle and turn it into polyester and make a shirt...

ZARA sources its cotton from multiple suppliers in Asia who source their cotton from farms in the Cerrado. This is why knowing your supply chain and material sources is important.

We're delving into all things ethics so you can learn exactly how to be ethical, what 'ethical fashion' really means, if you need accreditation to call yourself ethical, and how...

Every time synthetic fabrics are washed, they shed tiny tiny fibres, and those fibres are called plastic micro particles. Yep, polyester is made from petroleum, and it’s literally just a...

A single polyester garment takes more than 200 years to break down in landfill, but it never decomposes. It just breaks down into smaller plastic particles and those particles exist forever.

Over the entire decade that I ran The Fashion Advocate as an online store, I didn't do Black Friday sales, not even once. I also didn't do Boxing Day sales, seasonal sales, random and rushed 30%...

If you can plant the seed and educate your customers about the negative social and environmental impacts of fast fashion, and show them that you are the better alternative, they'll be...

Today's Instagram LIVE with Danielle Abery-Miller from Sanct was such a great conversation on all things ethical and sustainable fashion. Running a slow fashion business is tough, but it’s even tougher when you’re...

When it comes to recycled polyester, Meriel believes that it's 'just a slow motion oil slick' because at the end of the day, polyester (whether recycled or new), simply isn't...

Sustainability is just about fabrics. Ethics and sustainability go hand in hand, you can't have one without the other. Fashion that isn't sustainable, also isn't ethical, because it's not ethical...

Amber has had such a colourful career in fashion, from working with fast fashion giants to now heading up ethically sourced Australian jewellery label, Medley Jewellery, and her industry insight is rich.

This week's Instagram LIVE was with Kirstie Clements and it was such a juicy conversation filled with so much fashion wisdom. Kirstie is an author, editor, journalist and speaker, and she's most known as the...

Today’s Instagram LIVE was with the lovely Karishma Kasabia  Karishma Kasabia from Kholo and it was such a juicy chat filled with with so much wisdom! Every day Karishma gets up to create an...