La Redoute is all about making French style easy. Now thanks to bibico they’re also spreading the word that chic, easy-to-wear fashion can be Fair Trade. Bibico’s SS10 Collection mightily impressed the judges at the Paris Ethical Fashion Show last Autumn and bibico won the award for best collection. Now 6 months later the capsule collection that bibico designer Nieves created exclusively for La Redoute is hitting the mail boxes of over 30 million shoppers in Europe.
Looking for the perfect shoe to take you into Spring and grace your feet in Summer? Bourgeois Boheme may have just what you’re after. The vegan, ethical online boutique has just put up a sneak preview of the new SS10 Collection. With shoes like Bobo Audrey and Bobo Eve as well as some great shoes for the boys…there are so many reasons why Bibi loves Bobo.
BoBo Audrey
BoBo Eve
Bourgeois Boheme works directly with artisan communities and producers all over India through their Fair Trade partner – ‘The Community Friendly Movement’, to bring you this delightful collection of high-quality hand-made shoes.
Colin may not have won an Oscar but Livia won in the style stakes this year proving that it’s easy to be green and glam on the red carpet.
Livia Firth set herself an ethical style challenge last year when she learnt husband, Colin Firth, was nominated for a slew of best actor awards for his performance in The Single Man. She decided to do the whole awards season sustainably, committing to only wearing things of beauty that fall within the remit of environmental and social justice.
Livia wore this beautiful dress ‘made from waste’ on Oscars night. Designed by Orsola de Castro, whose label is From Somewhere, every scrap of fabric is from ends of rolls, discarded silk and organza off-cuts, silk chiffon un-finished petticoats (rescued from the trash) and off-cuts from the cutting room floor. Her bag was designed by Bruno Frisoni the designer at Roger Vivier, also stitched to together from discarded materials.
Check out her blog for the full story. Livia, who runs the ethical design store EcoAge in Chiswick is also one of the fabulous ladies behind 12 Degrees of Fashion, the pop-up ethical fashion shop that’s always worth watching out for.
Bibico has joined in supporting War on Want’s latest campain, ‘Love Fashion, Hate Sweatshops’. It’s brilliant that so many people are getting behind this with 23,000 signed up already.
They’ve set a goal of getting 50,000 signatures to present to the government. So join us, Little Boots, Jo Brand, Gael Garcia Bernal, Tony Robinson, Ashley Jensen and others and sign up today.
More about the campaign..
We love fashion. But the clothes we buy in the UK come at a terrible cost. Millions of workers around the world suffer poverty wages and exploitation, producing cheap fashion for our shops. This can’t go on. We demand a fashion industry that respects workers’ rights. Our government must act now to protect the people who make our clothes.
War on Want is leading the biggest ever call for the government to regulate companies and put an end to the exploitation of overseas workers. We are asking people to add their faces, names and voices to our campaign against sweatshops. Our aim is to have 50,000 people join our call for immediate government action. It’s an ambitious goal, but together we can bring an end to sweatshops.
War on Want’s research on the sweatshop conditions facing the workers who make our clothes has made front page news and attracted attention nationwide. Yet in spite of widespread awareness of the issue, it is not always clear what practical steps members of the UK public can take to end sweatshop labour abroad. Asking companies to regulate themselves hasn’t worked. Boycotts have only led to further job losses.
Real change can only be achieved through government regulation that protects the rights of workers supplying UK companies. War on Want is leading the biggest ever call to end the exploitation of workers. We are demanding that the government regulate the business practices of UK retailers to ensure that overseas workers are guaranteed a living wage, decent working conditions and the right to join a trade union. Gordon Brown must commit to government action.
This is a big job – change won’t come overnight. But it’s also a necessary one. Together we can end the injustice of sweatshops, and ensure the dignity of workers everywhere.
