Archive for the ‘ Menswear ’ Category
From today in all Coop supermarkets all over Italy is much easier to be ethical in style. From the large and catchy phrases on the t-shirts the most fashionistas clients could guess that only a designer like Katharine Hamnett could have backed such an idea. YOU/ME, STOP AND THINK, TOGETHER IS POSSIBLE, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, SAVE [ READ MORE ]
Pitti Uomo: it is undoubtedly one of the most important male fashion shows, but it is slow in embracing the arguments of sustainable fashion. Are just a few the brands who use their choices in this direction as pillars of their communication strategy. Consequently we can meet only few sustainable collections. Among them: the Italians of [ READ MORE ]
Compromises are often given as an excuse for not taking into consideration sustainable practices in fashion industry. Of course style must come at first while materials and people must follow. This is proved wrong once for all by QuitAndMove in their choices and collection. Their “Organic Style” merges at its best a fresh, unique and [ READ MORE ]
The Quagga project aimed to create and distribute protective winter clothing highly attentive to environmental sustainability and ethical responsibility. The team behind this brand comes from different backgrounds but all were involved with leading international clothing brands. With time realized how the fashion industry was damaging the planet and the people and how this information was likely stating [ READ MORE ]
Sometimes beautiful projects and products are the result of an intuition, a coincidence and a chance. This is probably the case of Smateria. When Elisa and Jennifer, both from Italy, met in Cambodia they had no business plan nor product development schedule, just good will and a vision: helping local women earning their living through their [ READ MORE ]
What do a Berlin label and a british Designer/Academic have to do with each other? The simple connection is Italy and of course Ethical Fashion. Banuq is a Berlin based, sustainable menswear brand, founded in 2007 by two Italians Davide Grazioli and Mauro Pavesi. Sass Brown, autor of Eco Fashion – probably the most interesting book on the [ READ MORE ]
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