Ethical Happenings

Cheap Sustainable Fashion – Does It Exist?

Do you remember the old phrase ‘Cheap and Cheerful’? Every day we are enticed to buy cheap clothing but we now know that this doesn’t leave the farmers and garment makers feeling cheerful at all.  Plus there’s the devastating effects of pollution and waste on our planet, a frightening and growing concern. But is there …

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Climate Change – The Politics, Science and Humanitarian Views

A couple of weeks ago I was very lucky to be in the audience for a fabulous panel session at the Royal Geographical society discussing climate change – the politics, the science and the humanitarian effects. The panel was hosted by the Lucy Siegle, enthusiastic eco-warrior and author, and there was an impressive all-woman line …

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Fashion Revolution 2019 at London’s Museum of Brands

There’s less than two weeks to go until our Fashion Revolution 2019 events at the Museum of Brands, brought to you by Where Does It Come From? and Ethicalhour – we’d love it if you could join us! We have three events across Friday and Saturday of Fashion Revolution week.   Friday 26 April Future Fashion Focus: LIVE Mastermind In …

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Be The Change Awards 2019 Awards Ceremony (video)

On April 26th, the Museum of Brands in London hosted the first ever Be The Change Awards 2019 Awards Ceremony! You can watch a fabulous video of the event created by Studio Republic below: Set up by Jo Salter from Where Does It Come From? and Sian Conway from Ethicalhour, the awards were to create a platform for the brands and organisations …

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Fashion Revolution 2019 at London’s Museum of Brands

There’s less than two weeks to go until our Fashion Revolution 2019 events at the Museum of Brands, brought to you by Where Does It Come From? and Ethicalhour – we’d love it if you could join us! We have three events across Friday and Saturday of Fashion Revolution week.   Friday 26 April Future Fashion Focus: LIVE Mastermind In …

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Pure London – Breakfast on a Catwalk

An invitation to Breakfast…. When I first received the invitation to breakfast at the Pure London exhibition at Olympia I was perplexed – why were they inviting an ethical clothing brand owner and influencer to an exhibition designed to sell large amounts of mass-produced clothes?  Then I looked at the key speakers – Caryn Franklin, …

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UK Government – Make Brands more responsible says Review into Fast Fashion

Have you been waiting for the UK Government Environmental Audit Committee Review into Fast Fashion? Exciting news – it was published this morning! Where Does It Come From? gave input into the first stages of the review back in September and last week I was in the audience of a discussion between committee chair Mary Creagh …

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Impacts of Fast Fashion – UK Government is on the case

In June 2018 the UK Government announced that they were going to delve into Fast Fashion – focussing on its social and environmental impacts. This was welcome news to those of us who have been campaigning for more awareness of how negative fast fashion can be – for our planet, for garment workers and also for …

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