Letter to H&M

Today I have written to H&M to ask them about how they treat their workers in developing countries that make the fashion we buy. H&M was not featured in the Lets Clean up Fashion report by Labour behind the Label in 2008, however they were included in the 2007 report where they were labelled as ‘disappointingly [...]

Gap leave a Gap

It seems Gap have declined to respond to my letter sent several months ago to them. These are the questions that I asked them, and which they did not want to answer: What percentage of the retail price of a garment goes to the worker who made it? How do you determine how much to [...]

Petition Primark

Why not add your name to this petition organised by War on Want and People Tree (my favourite fair trade fashion pioneers!).  It is written to Primark’s Ethical Trading Director and asks them to stop exploiting garment workers. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/primark/

Plugging the Gap

I have just written another letter to the fashion retailer Gap asking about their ethical practices.  In the past Gap have had very bad press about the production of garments for them, in particular regarding the conditions at their cotton factories and farms. Having said this though, Labour Behind the Label lists them in their [...]

The Green (& Ethical) Parent

The February/March issue of Green Parent has special 15 page section devoted to Ethical Fashion including Childrens wear. In it they advocate Slow Fashion, that is about appreciating quality and a garment’s true value, rather than fast fashion that is about selling more more quickly. Did you know conventional cotton farming is responsible for 22% [...]

Two in one week – letter to French Connection

French Connection have a few words at the bottom of a page in the investor section of their website about Ethical Trading.  It is clearly not an issue they take seriously and feel their customers are concerned with.  They are not signed up with the ETI (Ethical Trading Initiative) and the Lets Clean Up Fashion [...]

School Uniform – take action

School’s back, but the issue of garment sweatshops never went away. School uniforms from Tesco, ASDA and Marks & Spencer sell for as little as £3.50, but at what cost to those who make them? War on Want is urging supporters to help those in the developing world who make our kids’ clothes by taking action [...]

Letter to Dorothy Perkins

I have just printed off my letter to Dorothy Perkins asking them about their commitment to ethical trade and the treatment of their workers in developing countries.  On their website there is no ethical policy and they are not members of ETI (the Ethical Trading Initiative) which is disappointing.  In the ‘Lets Clean up Fashion’ [...]

Letter to Coast

I have written to Coast about their ethical practices, they do not have an ethical policy on their website, nor are they signed up with the Ethical Trading Initiative.  In the ‘Lets Clean up Fashion 2007′ report written by Labour behind the Label they are in the category of having ‘nothing to show’.  There is a [...]

Ethical clothing available from Edun

Ali Hewson, wife of U2′s Bono, established her own ethical label Edun in 2005.  Edun’s garments are made in Peru, India, Uganda and Kenya.  She hired Rogan Gregory as designer and he also has his own organic-clothing label. Edun is available at ASOS www.asos.com prices vary from £33 to £168 They have a sale on [...]