Climate and Culture

Ethical Fashion

Ethical Fashion

Ethical Fashion

Can seams of excess and exclusivity really be rewoven into ones of regeneration and recovery, or is fashion’s recent obsession with sustainability only skin-deep?

A black sewing machine rests on a table draped with a white sheet in an empty concrete room.

A black sewing machine rests on a table draped with a white sheet in an empty concrete room.

How Traditional Indian Fabrics Are Reinventing the Wheel of Sustainability Can hemp and khadi be the antidote to the resource-depleting textiles that make up today’s fashion industry?

Fabricating Change Art & Culture

Close-up of enoki mushroom

Close-up of enoki mushroom

Reweaving the Future: Inside Fashion’s Biomaterial Revolution Meet the innovators redefining beauty and combating waste through planet-positive biomaterials.

Fabricating Change Art & Culture

A group of sheep walk along a grass field.

A group of sheep walk along a grass field.

How Wool Can Help Mend Frayed Landscapes Want to fix fashion and heal the climate? Start by paying farmers for the real cost of restoring the land.

Fabricating Change Ethical Fashion

An oil spill caused by fossil fuels floods the ocean.

An oil spill caused by fossil fuels floods the ocean.

Can Next-Gen Materials Unravel Fashion’s Reliance on Fossil Fuels? A new wave of materials is emerging to tackle the issues associated with fashion’s supply chains.

Fabricating Change Ethical Fashion

A model dressed in pink and white linen fabric lays on the forest floor.

A model dressed in pink and white linen fabric lays on the forest floor.

Spinning Stories From a Place of Love As part of our week-long deep-dive into material solutions, photographer Andy Jackson lenses an intimate exploration of linen and love.

Photography Ethical Fashion

Paper and plastic waste boxes sit in a storage unit.

Paper and plastic waste boxes sit in a storage unit.

Lifting the Curtain on Carbon Colonialism Carbon colonialism is a system where the Global North “outsources” carbon emissions by moving dirty industry and waste to the Global South.

Environmental Justice Ethical Fashion

Ponte: The Label Reimagining Deadstock and Discarded Clothes Designer Harry Pontefract creates one-of-a-kind textile sculptures that blend artisan silhouettes with inexpensive materials.

Art & Culture Ethical Fashion

A fuzzy black and white illustration of a clock.

A fuzzy black and white illustration of a clock.

A Day in the Life of a Fast Fashion Worker One worker employed by a garment factory in Malaysia breaks down the hour-by-hour reality of producing stock in the name of fast fashion.

Environmental Justice Ethical Fashion

A woman in silver body paint and white feathers is surrounded by a band at carnival in Nigeria

A woman in silver body paint and white feathers is surrounded by a band at carnival in Nigeria

The Way of the Birds: Celebrating Nigeria’s Biggest Carnival Dancers and musicians transmit the rhythm of Calabar at Nigeria’s biggest carnival.

Identity & Community Ethical Fashion

Dirt and rubble cover a sewing machine at collapsed Rana Plaza site

Dirt and rubble cover a sewing machine at collapsed Rana Plaza site

A Decade Since Rana Plaza: Has Anything Changed? 10 years after the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory, labor organisers say much more needs to be done.

Ethical Fashion Anthropocene

Why I Am Swimming 450km To Help Stop Waste Colonialism

Why I Am Swimming 450km To Help Stop Waste Colonialism

Why I Am Swimming 450km To Help Stop Waste Colonialism Accra’s waterways are bubbling with synthetic microfibers after decades of nonstop waste-dumping by countries in the Global North.

Ethical Fashion Anthropocene

Can Made-To-Order Brands Slow Down the Fashion System?

Can Made-To-Order Brands Slow Down the Fashion System?

Can Made-To-Order Brands Slow Down the Fashion System? The rise of made-to-order fashion labels is good for the industry’s sustainability credentials. But the scale of impact remains uncertain.

Ethical Fashion

Palestinian Tatreez: Embroidering Resistance and Remembrance

Palestinian Tatreez: Embroidering Resistance and Remembrance

Palestinian Tatreez: Embroidering Resistance and Remembrance Palestinian women have long relied on tatreez—an artful embroidery technique—to resist the Israeli occupation and preserve their culture.

Ethical Fashion Identity & Community

Copenhagen Fashion Week Rewrites Fashion’s Villain Era

Copenhagen Fashion Week Rewrites Fashion’s Villain Era

Copenhagen Fashion Week Rewrites Fashion’s Villain Era Copenhagen Fashion Week enforced sustainability criteria that brands must adhere to in order to show. But, can regulation be enough?

Ethical Fashion

Digital vs Slow: The Future of Sustainable Fashion

Digital vs Slow: The Future of Sustainable Fashion

Digital vs Slow: The Future of Sustainable Fashion Slow fashion designer Nicklas Skovgaard speaks with The Fabricant's lead digital designer Anna Liedtke about disrupting the fashion system

Ethical Fashion Art & Culture

The Toxic History of Color

The Toxic History of Color

The Toxic History of Color For all of human history, our species have used both natural and synthetic dyes—but have we taken our obsession with color to an extreme?

Ethical Fashion Art & Culture

Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature

Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature

Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature For many queer people, nature is a place to celebrate the full spectrum of diversity—a reminder that being who you are is natural.

Art & Culture Queer Ecology

Visible Light: Colorism and Perception

Visible Light: Colorism and Perception

Visible Light: Colorism and Perception Light touches everything, but our perception dictates what we see. Ronan Mckenzie explores how colorism emerges from the prism of perception

Art & Culture Ethical Fashion

Unpacking Clean Beauty’s Real Impact

Unpacking Clean Beauty’s Real Impact

Unpacking Clean Beauty’s Real Impact The industry buzzword abounds with gray areas—especially when it comes to the impact of products on our health and the planet.

Ethical Fashion

Would You Wear a Living Plant?

Would You Wear a Living Plant?

Would You Wear a Living Plant? Designer Paula Ulargui Escalona is growing greenery from clothes to show just how beautiful fashion’s collaboration with nature could be.

Ethical Fashion

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