Fashion: Sustainable and Ethical Fashion

Textiles Environmental Impacts

Filmed in Bangladesh, one of the world's largest textile manufacturers, this resource explores the social cost of our cheap textiles. With footage filmed inside a number of Bangladeshi textile factories, it explores the issues of sweatshop labour, poor working conditions, a fair wage and the right to unionise and asks who is responsible? It then compares the social impacts of this mass-scale textiles production with the benefits brought to a small rural community in Bangladesh by a fair trade textile initiative.

• A Solution to Fashion Textile Unsustainability - an article from the PerAda magazine. 
• Colour in Textiles: Colour and the Environment Since the 1990s - an article from the International Colour Association.
• Environmental Justice Foundation - Reports on Cotton.
• Organic Wool - a podcast from BBC Radio 4.
• Sustainable Living Fabrics - a case study about a Melbourne firm.
• Well Dressed?: The Present and Future Sustainability of Clothing and Textiles in the United Kingdom - from the University of Cambridge Insitute for Manufacturing.  This is a large PDF.

• Centre for Sustainable Fashion - a website from the London College of Fashion
• Ethical Fashion Forum - a trade association for the fashion industry, led by businesses and focused on social and environmental sustainability.
• Fair Labor Association - aims to combine the efforts of industry, civil society organizations, and colleges and universities to protect workers’ rights and improve working conditions worldwide.
• Labour Behind the Label - an organisation aimed at supporting garment workers' rights.  Some interesting information in the Resources section. 
• Social Accountability International - aims to promote human rights for workers around the world.
• War on Want - for information on sweatshop workers, including some reports.