JUSTICE IN FASHION

We have gathered all March highlights in this month's blog post for your convenience!

Consequences of excessive consumption and overproduction — fashion consumption is causing a waste problem in the UK and other countries.

As JIF, we understand that governments and lawmakers are the driving force on the way to demolishing the unfair standards of the garment...

The Justice in Fashion Youth Board was formed with the aim of a youth team raising awareness about injustice in the fashion industry and...

Written by Natasha Jacobs The omnipresence of the fashion industry within the UK is certainly undeniable, with £32.5 billion spent...

Written by Natasha Jacobs The fashion industry is much like marmite, in that it is either loved or loathed. It is undoubtedly one of the...

Written by Natasha Jacobs Growing awareness of exploitation within the fashion industry has permeated mainstream media, with critics...

Written by Andrew Rupp Though this blog series has focused on the fashion and textiles production in Tirupur, India, there remains much...

Written by Megan Cousins Tirupur’s garment industry directly employs over 600,000 workers.[1] Throughout the last 18 months of the...

Written by Andrew Rupp For decades, there has been a growing awareness of the corporately-provoked, widespread issues afflicting...

Written by Doushali Jogeeah Image Source New India Express Tirupur is the largest supplier for the knitwear industry both in India and...

Women are disproportionately subject to violence, ranging from verbal abuse to sexual harassment, in Tirupur’s garment factories. In one...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and UNICEF recently released a report that child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide...

Tirupur, located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, continues to experience the probable outcomes resulting from multinational corporate...

Tirupur is a bustling centre for the Indian garment industry, producing up to half of all exports to supply major global retailers,...

Fashion has existed for millennia, yet it was not until the Industrial Revolution that it became the global economic and exploitive force...

Written by: Bharti Patel. “The successful exploitation of child labour was vital to Britain’s economic success in the 19th Century”. In...

Written by Andrew Rupp Background As conflict and war endure in the middle east, Turkey’s bordering Syria has led to it being a haven for...

Potential for US Import Ban against Boohoo and Leicester East Garment Manufacturing Industry BACKGROUND: Section 307 of the U.S. Tariff...

PIONEERING INNOVATION IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY Sustainability plays an integral role in the fashion industry by providing ecological and...