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Why Knowing Your Customer — and Values — is the Key to Fashion Brand Success
Why Knowing Your Customer — and Values — is the Key to Fashion Brand Success

Martina Carello shares her industry insights into why niching down and defining your target audience are essential steps in developing a thriving slow fashion brand.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveMay 5, 2025
How Ancient Knitwear Practices Can Help Shape Contemporary Sustainability
How Ancient Knitwear Practices Can Help Shape Contemporary Sustainability

Meredith Noles shares how her knitwear design consultancy is on a mission to create future heirlooms while celebrating the sustainable wonders of wool.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveMarch 31, 2025
Sustainable Lingerie, Reimagined: The Case for Circular Intimates
Sustainable Lingerie, Reimagined: The Case for Circular Intimates

Micki Weiner shares about how she is developing a sustainable lingerie brand that is safe for our bodies and the planet, without sacrificing comfort and beauty.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveMarch 17, 2025
Lessons from Luxury: Why Quality and Design Integrity are Key to Sustainability in Fashion
Lessons from Luxury: Why Quality and Design Integrity are Key to Sustainability in Fashion

Christine Arra shares about how she has developed her sustainable knitwear brand ARRA with quality and longevity at its core.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveFebruary 17, 2025
How Fashion Can Be a Medium for Climate Action
How Fashion Can Be a Medium for Climate Action

Mira Musank shares about how she uses upcycled textile art to raise awareness about fashion’s waste crisis and the need for creative climate action.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveNovember 18, 2024
Lessons From Worn Wear: How to Build a Financially & Environmentally Sustainable Circularity Program
Lessons From Worn Wear: How to Build a Financially & Environmentally Sustainable Circularity Program

Nellie Cohen, architect of Patagonia’s Worn Wear Program, shares how to build a commercially successful circular business model and why understanding consumer behavior is key.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveOctober 29, 2024
Sustainable Sourcing: How to Spot Greenwashing and Close Key Data Gaps in Fashion
Sustainable Sourcing: How to Spot Greenwashing and Close Key Data Gaps in Fashion

Rachael Guiles talks us through how understanding supplier certifications and fashion data gaps can create a more responsible industry.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveOctober 14, 2024
What You Need To Know Before Starting a Sustainable Fashion Consultancy
What You Need To Know Before Starting a Sustainable Fashion Consultancy

Zara Odu shares what it takes to start a sustainable fashion consultancy and build a brand that appeals to the conscious consumer and beyond.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveSeptember 23, 2024
Designing for Nature: Fashion’s Role in Protecting Biodiversity
Designing for Nature: Fashion’s Role in Protecting Biodiversity

Dr. Mirjam Hazenbosch shares about fashion’s biggest impacts on biodiversity, how brands can begin to act for nature, and the jobs emerging at the intersection of fashion and nature conservation.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveAugust 26, 2024
Revolutionizing Rental: Shared Closets As a Circular Solution to Fashion’s Disposability Culture
Revolutionizing Rental: Shared Closets As a Circular Solution to Fashion’s Disposability Culture

Jasmine Summers shares about how witnessing fashion’s waste crisis in Cambodia led her to start a bridesmaid dress rental business and advocate for ethical fashion.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveAugust 19, 2024
How Self-Awareness Can Usher In a More Sustainable Wardrobe
How Self-Awareness Can Usher In a More Sustainable Wardrobe

Biek Speijk shares personal style misconceptions and how self-awareness and personal wellness are key elements in creating a more sustainable wardrobe.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveJuly 8, 2024
Profit-Sharing, Education, and Indigenizing Supply Chains: A Blueprint for the Future of Ethical Fashion
Profit-Sharing, Education, and Indigenizing Supply Chains: A Blueprint for the Future of Ethical Fashion

Niha Elety shares how to incorporate ethical profit sharing into a fashion business model and why this is important for the future of cultural sustainability. 

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveJune 24, 2024
Wearable Art: How Shifting the Way We View Our Clothes Can Help Transform Fashion
Wearable Art: How Shifting the Way We View Our Clothes Can Help Transform Fashion

Kashesh Bhatia Garg shares how seeing clothing as wearable art can shift our relationship with fashion and what to consider when starting a brand that draws on cultural heritage.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveJune 10, 2024
Bridging Cultures: How Co-Designing With Artisans Helps Bring Fashion’s Sustainable Past Into Its Future
Bridging Cultures: How Co-Designing With Artisans Helps Bring Fashion’s Sustainable Past Into Its Future

Maithili Chodankar shares how fashion brands can co-design garments in partnership with artisan communities and why storytelling is an essential element of fashion activism.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveMay 27, 2024
Shaping Fashion's Future: What You Should Know Before Applying to a Sustainable Fashion Job
Shaping Fashion's Future: What You Should Know Before Applying to a Sustainable Fashion Job

Naika Colas shares how academia contributes to the sustainable fashion movement and what hiring managers look for when recruiting for fashion sustainability roles.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveMay 13, 2024
Crafting Connections: Bridging Cultural Sustainability and Material Impact in Fashion
Crafting Connections: Bridging Cultural Sustainability and Material Impact in Fashion

Sustainable Programme Manager and Cultural Sustainability Academy contributor Michelle Doyle discusses the material impact of fashion and how this connects to cultural sustainability.

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Conscious Fashion CollectiveApril 22, 2024
Crafting Change: Skills for Success as a Sustainable Fashion Communications Manager
Crafting Change: Skills for Success as a Sustainable Fashion Communications Manager

Constance Beswick, Communications Manager at Global Fashion Agenda, shares the value of compelling narratives, the biggest skill gaps in sustainability communications, and the most important elements of a successful sustainable fashion communications campaign.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveApril 9, 2024
Fashioning Impact: How to Communicate Sustainability in the Textile Industry
Fashioning Impact: How to Communicate Sustainability in the Textile Industry

Bilgesu Altunkan Ekim, founder of Trtex discusses what sustainable fashion means in Turkey and how sustainable fashion business owners can create compelling communications strategies.

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Conscious Fashion CollectiveMarch 25, 2024
Breaking Down Boundaries: What It Takes to Build Global Ethical Supply Chains in Fashion
Breaking Down Boundaries: What It Takes to Build Global Ethical Supply Chains in Fashion

Asos' Human Rights Manager Adil Rehman breaks down what it takes to build global ethical supply chains in fashion.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveMarch 4, 2024
How Textiles Can Be Powerful Mediums for Communication
How Textiles Can Be Powerful Mediums for Communication

Designer and communicator Sara Wynn shares how communication skills can strengthen the sustainable fashion movement and the power of textiles as a medium for communication.

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CareersConscious Fashion CollectiveFebruary 19, 2024
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