The jumper Kate Dibiasky wore to die
Newsletter No.05 'Don't Look Up' in jumpers, Leigh Bowery exhibition photos, are your old sneakers really recycled, a Chilean desert clothes dump and more...
Life In The Time Of Vaccine Inequality
Newsletter No.04: We could be out of this pandemic by mid-2022 if only we didn't live under such a stupid system. Plus a round up of industry news and a note on Abba's tax affairs.
Can they buy style or must they buy fashion?
Newsletter No.03 - On 1930's fashion critiques and the "horrid little man" that is the industry, falling down research rabbit holes, COP26, and films, articles and campaigns to watch out for.
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Garment workers, brickies, firefighters
Newsletter No.02 - Unravelling the threads of chaos in the garment industry, plus protest fashion, solitary confinement in Myanmar, and a $665 million lawsuit.
Wage Theft: defining the pandemic
Newsletter No.01 - Why we have to stop referring to brands as 'buyers'. Plus a second edition of Stitched Up, new articles, and a writing prize - news from July 2021.
Mapping the Covid rights roll back
How the RMG Colectivo used cross-border journalism to document the impact of Covid-19 on garment workers, at a time when workers' rights were being decimated by factory owners, governments and global brands.
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Italian Foot Work: Lavorare con i piedi
So I have some grande news... the first translation of Foot Work has arrived and it's in Italian. Grazie mille to Einaudi my publisher in Italy for creating such a stylish and lovely book.
RANA PLAZA: Imperialism vs Internationalism
Rana Plaza exposed a colonial industry that values clothes more than human life. Eight years later, in the midst of a pandemic, brands are still sacrificing people for profit.
Bleak Friday - capitalism's drive to consume
Why do we keep shopping even in the midst of a pandemic? How do we escape this consumerist nightmare? This essay explores the trap of capitalist consumption.
People In Primark Queues Aren't Your Enemy
This week my social media timelines filled with rage at people who had gone shopping at Primark, but 'fast fashion' must be critiqued as a corporate drive for profit not as the fault of the working classes.