🧐 Fashion's Questionable New "Trend"

💌 Welcome to Issue #102 of The Conscious Edit!

💭 Personal style — and how it relates to sustainable fashion — has been very top of mind for me!

I've come across many resources on personal style that never mention sustainability and how understanding our style can slow down consumption.

🌿 And I've read (and listened to and watched...) A TON of sustainable fashion resources. Many of which don't touch on the concept of personal style as a means to curb overconsumption and waste.

But there is such an interconnection between the two, as the recent conversations on the Conscious Style Podcast have illuminated.

✨ Inspired by this: our community question for this week is...

*How would you describe YOUR personal style right now?*

↩️ Hit reply and let me know! Your responses could be shared in next week's newsletter and help inspire another person's personal style journey.

Now let's get to this week's issue. There are a lot of great reads this week!

💕 All my best,
Elizabeth | Founder of Conscious Life & Style

This Week's Reads

👚 Outfit Repeating Is A Lifestyle! Not fashion's latest trend. (HuffPost)

🎉 A Victory for Ethical Fashion: The International Accord will be expanding into Pakistan. (Remake)

👖 The Explainer We All Needed. Why conversations about fast fashion get so heated.

👗 From the Fringes to the Mainstream: How secondhand became the UK's main attraction.

🛍 How Fast Fashion is Changing Charity Shops: "Once a hotbed for affordable quality clothing, rare finds and cheap fun vintage, charity shops are now stuffed to the rafters with the same generic, trend-led products you’re faced with online and in every other high street shop." (The Block)

👠 Find Your Dream Secondhand Shoes. Here are 5 pro tips on how to shop for preloved footwear. (Refinery29)

🪡 Fabric Fraud: How can we tell if our clothes are really what they claim to be? (BBC)

🤳 The Challenge of A Sustainable Fashion Week: While Copenhagen is ahead of the pack when it comes to showing more responsible runways, more progress is needed. (The Guardian)

This Week's Recommendations

🏃‍♀️ Step Off The Fashion Trend-Mill. This week on the Conscious Style Podcast, I spoke with Nina Gbor of Eco Styles about self-knowledge, personal style, and the multilayers impacts of fashion's waste.

💻 Ever Wanted to Work in Sustainable Fashion? This is the job board for you.

🤨 Not So Fast, boohoo. Protestors stormed the boohoo only panel on "ethical clothing", calling out the ultra-fast fashion's blatant greenwashing.

🗑 #StopWasteColonialism: The Or Foundation launched a new campaign advocating for true extended producer responsibility.

👕 How To Thrift Online: In the latest episode of Thanks, It's Thrifted, co-host Shannon shares tips for thrifting online.

🌿 Learning From The Past: Angel Chang shares why listening to Indigenous knowledge and preserving textile traditions is vital for a more sustainable fashion future on the Conscious Chatter podcast.

🪑 Take A Sustainable Seat. I rounded up 7 brands with bar stools and counter stools made better.

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