Collective Fashion Justice

SHIRINGA: Fashion Regenerating Amazonia is now streaming on WaterBear Network! Our short film follows the Awajún people of the Peruvian Amazon who work with caxacoristudio to create a bio-leather that supports their community, defends against deforestation, and offers the fashion industry a much needed alternative to the harmful animal-derived leather and plastic materials currently being used. Directed and produced by our founder Emma Hakansson and featuring designer Mozhdeh Matin, we invite you to watch, be inspired, and then learn more about this material on our website: https://lnkd.in/gCuZbZjn

A great article in Australia’s The Monthly Magazine opening with our founder Emma Hakansson, as she and journalist Katherine Wilson visit Alt.Leather which develops animal-free and plastic-free leather for the future. https://lnkd.in/gcvjj2AQ #Leather #NextGenMaterials #SustainableFashion #EthicalFashion #TotalEthicsFashion

Collective Fashion Justice produced new learning resources about methane emissions, now included in this Carbon Literacy Training for Fashion and Retail. We were very glad to work with Safia Minney, MBE FRSA and Fashion Declares to include this, as methane is far more potent than carbon in the short-term, but also shorter lived in the atmosphere. This means curbing methane emissions is a highly effective way to reduce global temperatures quickly. Animal-derived materials from ruminant species, the degrading of textiles in landfills, and methane from oil extraction for synthetics are all serious issues to move beyond. We encourage fashion industry members to take this training!

SHIRINGA, our upcoming short film about fashion regenerating Amazonia, is coming to WaterBear Network in early February. Following the Indigenous Awajún people of the Peruvian Amazon, a community making a bio-material alternative to animal-derived and synthetic leather, while defending their land against deforestation for cattle ranching and mining tied to these harmful materials they work to replace. The film also features bio-material innovator caxacoristudio and designer Mozhdeh Matin who respectively collaboratively produce and design with this material for the future. Be the first to know when the film is live: sign up for updates on our social media and via our website: https://lnkd.in/gCuZbZjn SHIRINGA is directed and produced by our founder, Emma Hakansson, and designed to connect this material solution with a fashion industry yet to discover it. Get in touch via the site above if your brand wants to explore using shiringa bio-leather. With great gratitude to the Awajún people for inviting us into their community, and to their leader Jessica Tsamajain Lirio for her trust. #Biomaterial #SustainableFashion #AmazonRainforest #Leather

Our founder Emma Hakansson wrote an op-ed for openDemocracy about leather industry green-washing and lobbying against the common good, based on our recent report covering the topic. Recently, Sourcing Journal also published an in-depth piece by Kate Nishimura on our report. Read the op-ed: https://lnkd.in/dy_-firk Read the in-depth piece: https://lnkd.in/gc5Pbspi Read our full report: https://lnkd.in/gk_sVW7d

It’s been a huge year of work towards total ethics fashion protecting and prioritising people, our fellow animals and the planet over profit. Below, our founder Emma Hakansson overviews some of our wins towards this just fashion future, and you can read our 2024 review in full here: https://lnkd.in/gcNk2uE

The fashion industry has produced 5 of the 20 richest people (all men) in the world, and yet often claims to be without funds to support more ethical and sustainable practices. At the same time, philanthropists consistently overlook funding charities and technologies that can help combat the significant harm fashion perpetrates against people, our fellow animals and the planet. In this piece for Alliance magazine subscribers, our founder Emma Hakansson explains why that’s a problem to be changed. https://lnkd.in/g4cXgp5S

We are so pleased to share that London Fashion Week has banned wild animal skins, after engaging with us and World Animal Protection UK. Announced by the British Fashion Council at a U.K. Parliament event this week, the organisation highlighted the value of ‘constructive challenges’ by organisations like Collective Fashion Justice. Our founding director Emma Hakansson who helped write the policy, said: “LFW is the first big four fashion event to prohibit both fur and wild animal skins, and we celebrate this important progress. We also know there is more to do, continuing the conversation on feathers towards what we hope will be a totally wildlife-free policy.” “For decades, brands have banned fur, stating an opposition to killing animals specifically for fashion. This is exactly what happens to the crocodiles, snakes, ostriches and other wild animals skinned and plucked for fashion too, making bans on these skins and feathers consistent with an existing and widely agreed upon ethical premise.” Thank you to the British Fashion Council! Read the Business of Fashion piece from Sarah Kent here: https://lnkd.in/gamdMXPJ

We are so pleased to share that London Fashion Week has banned wild animal skins, after engaging with us and World Animal Protection UK. Announced by the British Fashion Council at a U.K. Parliament event this week, the organisation highlighted the value of ‘constructive challenges’ by organisations like Collective Fashion Justice. Our founding director Emma Hakansson who helped write the policy, said: “LFW is the first big four fashion event to prohibit both fur and wild animal skins, and we celebrate this important progress. We also know there is more to do, continuing the conversation on feathers towards what we hope will be a totally wildlife-free policy.” “For decades, brands have banned fur, stating an opposition to killing animals specifically for fashion. This is exactly what happens to the crocodiles, snakes, ostriches and other wild animals skinned and plucked for fashion too, making bans on these skins and feathers consistent with an existing and widely agreed upon ethical premise.” Thank you to the British Fashion Council! Read the Business of Fashion piece from Sarah Kent here: https://lnkd.in/gamdMXPJ

Our founding director has been recognised on the Vox Future Perfect 50 list for her work in combating climate change. Central to our work at Collective Fashion Justice is to shift the industry beyond the methane-intensive animal-derived materials like leather and wool which remain so intensely green-washed, and to replace them with bio-based and plant-based, not fossil fuel materials. Amidst an escalating climate crisis, this change cannot come soon enough. For today, we are celebrating this recognition and the work of so many others on this list, while we continue to do the work.