A while ago I did a one day jewellery-making course, the focus of which was making pieces out of everyday things such as safety pins and buttons. We also had a go at up-cycling old or broken jewellery. With the aid of a pair of pliers, I joined an old brooch to a string of [...]

We’re looking for an Online Fashion Assistant to manage our Oxfam Fashion online presence including this blog and @OxfamFashion Twitter.  Is that you?
Take a look at the role profile below and get in touch through our applications page.
Online Fashion Assistant (Voluntary Internship)
Location:
Oxfam House, but will also entail some time visiting Oxfam shops, and at fashion [...]

It’s time to

Dress up.
Resource down.
Because change is just an outfit away.
An emporium for ethical style, fairtrade food, fashion photography and illustrative artwork The Good Fashion Show is top of our list to visit this LFW. Besides the food, fashion and I am told ‘fairtrade fizz’ TGFS offers enviable keynote sessions and a [...]

London Fashion Week kicks off soon and I’ll be heading to Somerset House where the 6-day event is held to watch the catwalk shows, snap some street style and soak up the (very fashionable) atmosphere. So naturally, for the last three weeks I’ve only had one thing on my mind - what will I wear?
Fashion [...]

There are perhaps two types of shopping. The first leaves one carrying clothes in plastic bags with handles that leave grooves like giant lifelines in palms. The second, which can be more preferable (and yet extremely rare), involves unwrapping crackling layers of tissue paper to find some gorgeous item cocooned within. This was my slightly [...]

For many of us, saving clothes from the landfill through re-using, upcycling or recycling comes as second nature, and amounts to plain common sense! Unfortunately, however, 1.2 million tonnes of shoes and clothes are still being thrown away in the UK each year. On Thursday 19th I attended ‘ReFashion’ an event held by Oxford City [...]

What happens to your clothes when you are finished with them? Most of you, I imagine, will send those once loved items to a charity shop in the hope that someone will resurrect them but what about the items that don’t sell? Where do they end up?
Waste of The World was a five year research [...]