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Sustainable Fashion Awards 2022 - Green is the New Black

Does the Green Carpet Fashion Awards make up for a sustainability deficit on the runway?

A few seasons ago, sustainability was trending on every fashion capital’s runway. Brands made a show of upcycling deadstock into new garments, using organic or vegan materials, and designing clothes made to last, despite their questionable wearability. However, uncovering the paradox of fashion weeks’ carbon footprint minimalized sustainability showcases in subsequent seasons. Until organising bodies…

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10 Surprising Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Wonderfuit Festival 2022

Buckle up, Wonderers! Wonderfruit Festival is set to return after three long pandemic-filled years this December, 2022. Get your outfits ready for all the mesmerising activities blurring the intersections of food, art, architecture, music and human-nature interaction. With less than three months to go, we take a look at all the cool things to look…

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Nutrition & Energy Coach, Restaurateur and Consultant Elika Tasker on Her Latest Venture, Discover Everton

Everton Road was just announced Singapore's coolest street of 2022—and for good reason. Nearly one year ago, Elika Tasker saw the opportunity to bring back the kampong spirit and start a community on this very road filled with eclectic shophouses and gorgeous street art murals. We visit the unique and chic Discover Everton to check…

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Governments are Debating Eco-labels and Garment IDs. Are We Finally at Farm-to-Closet Traceability?

Until recently, eco-labelling on clothing has been a voluntary disclosure made by fashion brands. But with climate neutrality on every government’s agenda, fashion too is under legislative scrutiny. Releasing information about sustainable action is set to become a mandate: from clothing with digital IDs to carbon labels, change is brewing. The conscious consumer is burdened…

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Here’s What Hurricane Fiona Left Behind

Hurricane Fiona’s destruction may not be as devastating as Hurricane Maria’s in 2017, but the calamitous wake it left—and continues to leave—behind in Puerto Rico and neighbouring areas shouldn’t be underestimated. We take a look at what’s happening in the area and the nexus between frequently stronger hurricanes and typhoons andclimate change In the…

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SLAY Gets Under Fashion’s Skin—And Ours

Make way because the producers of Cowspiracy and What the Health have a gritty and game-changing documentary that has dropped on WaterBear, the new environmentally conscious streaming service, and we can’t stop talking about it. Directed and presented by animal rights activist Rebecca Cappelli and co-produced by Cowspiracy co-director Keegan Kuhn, SLAY exposes harsh truths…

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Feminism in Farming is Overdue: Gender Equality Gets on Cotton’s Agenda

It is not commonly understood that the climate crisis is as much about people as it is about the environment. For most of its existence, commercial fashion has run on women's labour and cotton cultivation. The two are not mutually exclusive. From sowing seeds to harvesting, spinning yarn to garment making, women from rural geographies…

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