Fashion used to be slow, methodical and serve a greater purpose. In a time when people would buy clothing because they outgrew or damaged their existing clothing, i.e. when they needed to buy it, fashion designers would release collections once per season. Fast Fashion: The Beginning and Rise In the late 90s and early 2000s, […]
Fairtrade Fashion
How the Clothing Industry Is Changing
The modern clothing industry has been the result of the shift from tailored clothes to ready-made apparel. This change has affected everything, including the design, production, marketing and sales. The modern clothing industry has also paved the way for different labels and brands, designers, magazines, and clothing stores. Let’s look at how the clothing industry […]
How to start a fashion brand: Part 2 – Print On Demand vs Print Up Front
This is part 2 of our How To Start A Fashion Brand series. In it, we share helpful hints and tips on everything you need to start your own business selling t-shirts (or other garments). In part 1, we started with an introductory overview that covered all of the aspects of running your own fashion […]
Fairtrade Friday – Onesies
So Fairtrade Friday is normally about promoting other Fairtrade brands we love, use or have discovered and feel are worth sharing. However this week we want to cover one of our own products, having found them to be really quite popular. This week we want to introduce you to our Fairtrade Onesie! Now this is […]
Fairtrade Friday – People Tree
This Fairtrade Friday, we’re want to introduce you to People Tree, a brand that you have quite possibly heard of before, as a result of them being leaders in the Fair Trade movement, through fashion. The brand was founded by Sofia Minney who’s journey began in advertising, within this industry she got to see the […]
Fairtrade Friday – Pants to Poverty
Friday has come round again and no doubt you are looking forward to the weekend! We’re here with some lunch time reading for you, introducing you to another Fairtrade brand, for our regular Fairtrade Friday post. This week, we want to introduce you to ‘Pants to Poverty’, a brilliant London based brand selling, (you guessed […]
A.M. Custom Clothing Featured In The Huffington Post
“You might not have heard of A.M Custom Clothing but you may very well soon be wearing it” – The Huffington Post A.M. Custom Clothing are leading the way with the most advanced range of Fairtrade clothing, as a result we’ve recently been featured in a number of leading publications. Last week A.M. Custom Clothing […]
First Fairtrade Friday
So it started with Screen Print Saturdays, which made for great alliteration and helped us share some of the great work we were finding within the week. So with the onset of Fairtrade Fortnight we thought we could extend this, creating Fairtrade Friday. Fairtrade is something we are very passionate about and so we should […]