SUSTAINABILITY & SMALL BUSINESS BLOG
Inside Textile Waste – Fashion Revolution Week 2020
INSIDE TEXTILE WASTE
"This year Fashion Revolution Week is highlighting the importance of using wha...
5 Tips to Help You Care For Your Clothes
Ten thousand (yes, ten thousand!) items of clothing are being sent to landfill every five minutes in...
Introducing RePack: A Low Waste Alternative to Packaging
As the volume of waste that the UK produces is ever increasing and distributing recyclable waste is ...
Shop Independent Holiday Gift Guide 2019
We're so excited to present our 'Shop Independent Gift Guide 2019'!
It’s that time of year again whe...
Fair Pay in the Fashion Industry – Living Wage Week 2019
It's National Living Wage Week in the UK. A huge part of the sustainable fashion movement is to create more transparency: to make consumers aware of who made their clothes, under what conditions and for what rates of pay. As a living wage employer this is a cornerstone to everything we do here at The Emperor's Old Clothes.
Fashion Revolution Week 2019
We have lots of exciting projects and events coming up for Fashion Revolution Week 2019 - we'd love those of you local to Brighton/Sussex to join us. Sustainable fashion + shopping locally + educating yourself = conscious consumerism at it's best
Behind the scenes of becoming more size inclusive as a brand
A behind the scenes look at how our brand is becoming more size inclusive, it’s a look at the mistakes and assumptions I’ve made as a business owner and an update on our commitments to diversity and inclusivity for the rest of 2019.
Recycling dead stock as a sustainable fashion brand
Recycling and specifically fabric recycling is super important in sustainable fashion and in the fashion industry as a whole. ‘Dead stock’ is a problem if you’re churning out millions of garments a season but small-scale operations like us can be way more innovative + creative with our solutions.
What positive impact can we make as consumers in 2019?
We recently asked the question: ‘What positive impact can we make as consumers in 2019?” over on Instagram. It was so wonderful to hear such positive intentions and different takes on what sustainability means + your intentions for what your consumerism will look like in 2019. As promised today’s post is going to map out the impact our brand will be aiming to make as a producer within the fashion industry in 2019 + also my own personal impact intentions as a consumer.
Emperor’s Team Style Guide: Party Wear
We love a good party wear style guide - but why should our models have all the fun?
We had a great t...
