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Clean Clothes Campaign
How we can take action for improving conditions in the global garment industry. Campaigns, resources, local activities etc. Also local pages.
Video from Clean Clothes Campaign
Ethical Consumer
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org
Website with reports (full reports are charged for), ratings of ethical brands, background information about problems in fashion industry.
Clean up Fashion
www.cleanupfashion.co.uk
Explains a number of the key issues in the garment trade through a number of short briefings. Yearly reports of the situations and developments of companies and how they consider the rights of workers and what they actually do about it. Profiling and rating high street companies. Focuses on UK.
Ethical Fashion Forum
www.ethicalfashionforum.com
Explaining issues in fashion industry. Collecting and publishing various reports about fashion industry. Listing ethical suppliers and developing a wide resource database.
Fashion and Ethical Industry
http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org
Presents in the introduction in a easy understandable way different perspectives to fashion industry. Behind the introduction more information can be found. Good resources: videos, podcasts, reports, images etc. Also resources for teaching fashion ethics and listing of happenings and exhibitions in the field.
Green Washing
http://www.greenwashingindex.com
A website that focuses on helping consumers become more aware about evaluating environmental marketing claims of advertisers(fashion and other consumer goods and services).
OutsaPop
A blog about: Trashion recycled style DIY refashion eco sustainable fashion
Vihreät vaatteet (in Finnish)
http://www.vihreatvaatteet.com/
Blog about ethical and ecological fashion.
MADE-BY Track&Trace
MADE-BY Track&Trace follows the trail of your clothes. Explains well the various steps a garment goes through in its production process. MADE-BY brands open up the doors to the production process and score cards show how sustainable the brands are.
Sustainable Fashion - a handbook for educators
http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org/!file/FEI+Sustainable+Fashion+A+Handbook+for+Educators.pdf/
Plenty of different activities with educational objectives. The activities are planned for several different educational levels and for different situations rangeing from 15 min. to several weeks. Edited by Liz Parker on behalf of Fashioning an Ethical Industry, UK, and Marsha A. Dickson on behalf of Educators for Socially Responsible Apparel Business, USA.
Stitching a Decent Wage Across Borders: The Asia Floor Wage Proposal
http://www.cleanclothes.org/component/docman/doc_download/25-stitching-a-decent-wage-across-borders
The first two chapters of this report discuss the causes behind poverty wages in the garment industry, including the role major garment brands and retailers play in shaping global production and trade. The final two chapters outline how the proposals from the AFW Alliance would not only raise the wages of workers at the bottom, but strengthen workers’ bargaining power throughout the international garment production chains of giant retailers and brands and across borders, thereby increasing all garment workers’ capacity to raise wage levels. The report ends with detailed discussion on how to define and calculate the Asia Floor Wage. Written by: Jeroen Merk of the Clean Clothes Campaign on behalf of the Asia Floor Wage Campaign.
Made by Women: Gender, the Global Garment Industry and the Movement for Women Workers' Rights
http://www.cleanclothes.org/component/docman/doc_download/16-made-by-women
This 128-page publication published by the Clean Clothes Campaign International Secretariat includes feature articles on important themes relating to gender and labour rights and 17 profiles of women involved in different ways in the movement for garment workers' rights. By Clean Clothes Campaign editors: Nina Ascoly & Chantal Finney.
Let’s Clean Up Fashion 2009 - The State of Pay Behind the UK High Street
http://www.labourbehindthelabel.org/images/pdf/letscleanupfashion2009.pdf
Report produced by the UK CCC (Labour Behind the Label) that details how major British retailers lack any coherent strategy to ensure a living wage for the people who make their clothes. Written by Anna McMullen and Sam Maher for Labour Behind the Label.
WE SHOP, WHO PAYS?
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3076138835044484743#
A documentary about Western companies producing clothes and shoes in developing countries. It is a film about the problems with too low wages, child labour and environmental pollution, and about what can be done to solve these problems.(33 min)
Clean Clothes Campaign
You can safely invest in Bangladesh, stories from the Garment Industry.
Slave Label
When youth take action in spreading awareness. Directed by Tom Lloyd and Tim Fleming for Whitewood and Fleming/Creative Partnerships Cumbria. Selected as part of Youth Producing Change, the first exclusively youth-produced program of short films, at the Human Rights Watch International 2008.
The History Of Human Rights
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Quick history of human rights.
http://www.HumanRights.com
humanrights.com
http://www.humanrights.com/#/videos
Short video clips about Human Rights Declaration articles.
TrueTube - Sweatshops
http://www.truetube.co.uk/global/human-rights/sweatshops-necessary-evil
About Sweatshops, what can we do? Can we do anything?
China Blue
http://www.teddybearfilms.com/chinablue
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China Blue takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where Jasmine and her friends are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable.
Blood, Sweat and T-shirts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/thread/blood-sweat-tshirts/
This BBC Three series from May 2008 saw six young fashion addicts swap shopping on the high street with working in India‘s cotton fields and clothes factories.
Dollar A Day Dress
Trailer (only first 5 minutes) {{#ev:youtube|8doT67kAOJw|240}} Reporter Steve Bradshaw travelled from the Sahara to the Andes to discover some of the harsh truths about free trade and its impact on the developing world.
Fashion Conscience
http://www.fashion-conscience.com
Many people have different interpretations of what is 100 per cent ethical fashion. We believe if you are making a honest genuine move in the right direction to less harmful, exploitative practices, that is better than no move at all. Faschion-conscience.com offer designs which have an ethical and eco dimension under cathegories; Organic, vegan, sustainable, fair trade and recycled.
Equita
Design-conscious online-shop. For each product the ethical standards are listed separately.
Vihreä kauppa (In Finnish)
Fair Trade, organic and recycled designs. Each product has very detailed specification on why the garment is ethical or green.
Fashion hacktivism & craftivism
Craftivism and fashion hacktivism are emerging participatory art movements that through the act of crafting engages designers, artists, craft lovers and activists to raise awareness on important topics. Craftivism and fashion hacktivism projects often opposes wrongdoings of fashion industry, yet many other issues are raised as well e.g. opposing war or promoting openness. Here are some fashion hacktivism and craftivism projects that can work as inspiration for making Killer Fashion Revolution designs and workshops.
Craftivism
The term craftivism was coined by Betsey Greer, on craftivism.com she explains what it is all about.
Fashion hacktivism
http://www.hdk.gu.se/files/document/fashion-able_webanspassahd%20avhandling_OttovonBusch.pdf
Otto von Bush writes about fashion hacktivism in his book FASHION-able hacktivism and engaged fashion design
Body count mittens by Lisa Anne Auerbach
http://www.lisaanneauerbach.com
In this project each mitten memorialises the number of American soldiers killed in the Iraqi war, at the time the mitten was made. Each mitten is different including a pattern of the date and the death toll. When mittens are used together in pairs they show the escalations of the deaths. The mitten patterns and instructions are spread through herblog, offered as a tool for participation in protesting against the war in Iraq. Auerbach presents several other ways to demonstrate using needlework as the medium. A lot of these examples can be found on her website.
microRevolt by Cat Mazza
microRevolt is a collection of projects that aims for social change on a grass root level through craftivism. The Nike Blanket Petition is a part of microRevolt as is the Stitching for Senate project. Where participants are encouraged to knit helmet linings to every US senate member as a reminder of the ongoing war on Iraq should be ended.
Radical Cross Stitching by Rayna Fahey
Fahey presents on cross stitching as a subversive way to protest. She encourages others to take part and to do-it-yourself. The Radical Cross Stitching -site also includes a Fabric of Resistance Wiki where active craftivists are presented. Craft enthusiasts are encourages to publish their own craftivist works including stories and design processes.
Hacking-Couture Giana Gonzáles
http://www.kulturservern.se/wronsov/selfpassage/HHCH/HHCH-info.htm
Hacking-Couture workshops takes the concept; of hacking brands and fashion code, into the work-flow of up-cycling. In the workshop the history and "code" of a specific brand like Gucci is presented. After this participants use recycled clothes and up-cycle and "guccifies".
Swap-O-Rama-Rama by Wendy Tremayne
Visitors bring a bag of old unwanted clothing to the Swap-O-Rama-Rama event, as an entrance ticket. The clothes are collected into a big pile that will be the raw material of the event. Participants can choose “new” old-garments from the pile, and attend workshop at different sewing stations. At the stations participants get help from professionals and from each other to re-do their garments. In the end participants prepare for a catwalk show, that will showcase the highlights of the swap.
Freeware by Geraldine Juárez
http://www.simple-mechanisms.com/output/freewear/
Artist Geraldine Juárez uses free Postal Tyvek envelopes found in US post offices in her “freecycled” freeware project. These are examples of fashion made out of something else than the traditional fabrics.
SHRWR
http://www.shrwr.org and www.kulturservern.se/wronsov/selfpassage/HHCH/HHCH-info.htm
Fashion hacktivism can also spread awareness of new behavioural patterns like in the case of SHRWR, a group of young designers and critical theorists from Göteborg, Sweden. SHRWR claims that “Ownership is out of fashion”. Their idea connects with the thought of shareware and the open source programming community. SHRWR brings t-shirts and reconstructed garments with the SHRWR label to events. These clothes are free to use, yet you are not allowed to own them. This new protocol of not owning clothes is meant to confuse us, yet in the same time get us to think about our relation to clothes and things.
Wearable Technologies
At the first Killer Fashion Revolution workshop Andreas Zingerle presented some art projects to inspire participants. The examples were great so we collected links to the projects here so others can be inspired as well.
Projects
Fashionable Technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od7zmLLTcXc
Bare conductive http://www.bareconductive.com/
Taiknam Hat: http://popkalab.com/th.html
Robin Lasser: http://robinlasser.com/
Francescas neck braces: http://francesca.nu
Gabriel Dischaws pentium shoes: http://www.gabrieldishaw.com/
Der Ueberflieger: http://www.derueberflieger.com
Game Controllers
Massage Me: http://www.massage-me.at/
Headbang Hero: http://www.headbanghero.com
DIY Scene
Hannah P W: http://www.plusea.at/?category_name=projects
Wearabe Technology Blogs
http://fashioningtechnology.ning.com/video/wearable-technology
http://www.instructables.com/id/Upcycled-Sweater-Boots/
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/how-to_knit_stretch_sensor.html