Ready-to-wake: Should fashion weeks be cancelled?

Ready-to-wake: Should fashion weeks be cancelled?

Upcycled kitten heels by Ancuta Sarca at London Fashion Week “Wake me up when September ends” are words I've heard from editors doing the four fashion capitals in less than four weeks.   Our eyes are closed to the emergency according to Extinction Rebellion, the...

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Six Items Challenge : Day 7 and 8

Six Items Challenge : Day 7 and 8

I saw the Queen yesterday (the day I wore jeans).  More on that later as I didn’t have the energy to write last night. This morning my friend made me chuckle with a link to an Inc. article - Why Successful People Wear the Same Thing Every Day You see by wearing the...

Six Items Challenge : Day 6

Six Items Challenge : Day 6

Wore my M-24 backpack made of used truck tarpaulin to the Designer Showrooms today.  Fashion week has a growing number of sustainable brands and stands - one being The Sustainable Angle, a not for profit organisation dedicated to projects that promote sustainable...

Six Items Challenge : Day 5

Six Items Challenge : Day 5

I met a fashion journalist from Spain the other day and we joked that even if it means crossing the road, stopping to soak up every moment of sunshine is essential to make it through the grey months in London. Fashion week might be all about autumn winter collections,...

Six Items Challenge : Day 4

Six Items Challenge : Day 4

My days are all messed up.  It's the second day of fashion week, but it is in fact the weekend, so Saturday feels like Tuesday, but it's also masquerading  as Thursday - on this, the forth day of my challenge. Despite setting my alarm for 7am on a Saturday, I knew...

Six Items Challenge : Day 3

Six Items Challenge : Day 3

It may be day three of my challenge for Labour Behind the Label, but it really only got challenging today on the first day of London Fashion Week. For some reason it felt like my first day at school.  Perhaps it's because when you're a kid you get away with wearing...

My fashion fast to fight fast fashion

My fashion fast to fight fast fashion

I have pledged to only wear six items of clothing for six weeks - starting just before London Fashion Week   If it takes a collective to make a fashion, it takes collective action to end fashion abuse. The Six Items Challenge is a campaign created by Labour...