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How much are consumers prepared to pay to recycle their clothing? Retailers want to know.

Before you buy that T-shirt, would you pay $2 to recycle it?

Australians consume 53 items of new clothing a year. As Black Friday nears, more retailers want customers to pay for their excess. But not everyone supports it.

  • Melissa Singer

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The culture of executive bonuses at government-owned companies has been under scrutiny since the Cartier watches saga.

With 200,000 tonnes of clothes in landfill each year, rethink rather than return

The fashion industry can only do so much to reduce its climate impact without the support of its customers. 

  • The Herald's View

‘I want to be the biggest brand in the country’: The next gen of Aussie shoemakers

Australia’s footwear manufacturing industry is all but gone, but a small group of passionate craftspeople are keeping the art of shoe-making alive.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Hasina, a garment worker from Bangladesh, told Baptist World Aid’s Ethical Fashion Report she had been pressured to lie about working overtime at audits. Women, who make up the majority of fashion’s labour force, experience disproportionately poor working conditions.

Australian fashion brands fail to pay garment workers a living wage

A new report into the sustainability of Australian fashion brands has found some shopping mall offenders, and some unexpected “success” stories.

  • Penry Buckley
In 2020, Sener Besim launched a jewellery line

The fashion designers thinking beyond the clothing rack in remarkable ways

From futuristic engraving to re-using fabrics, four fashion designers reveal how they adapt to an ever-changing world.

  • Jane Rocca
Dion Lee will be wound up after failing to find a buyer.

Australians buy more new clothing than anyone else. So why is our fashion industry dying?

A fresh push for greater support of Australian-made clothing ignores one key fact: consumers have stopped supporting local labels in favour of ultra-fast fashion.

  • Melissa Singer
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‘I’m not scared of the words fast fashion’: Alice McCall defends Shein collaboration

The Australian designer has described her new collection with ultra-cheap Chinese giant as “investment” pieces of “very good quality”.

  • Jessica Yun and Lauren Ironmonger
puffer index no pope

We’re a nation obsessed with puffer jackets. But are they sustainable?

Australia’s unofficial winter uniform is being re-engineered to make it kinder to the planet. But consumers will need an investment mindset.

  • Melissa Singer
After 20 years of designing clothes, Kit Willow is steeping away from design to focus on the environment.

‘I’m hopping off the treadmill’: Kit Willow is leaving fashion ... again

After 20 years at the forefront of Australian fashion, Kit Willow is shifting her focus from clothing to carbon footprints.

  • Damien Woolnough
Australians’ addiction to new clothes is creating a waste crisis.

Australia’s fashion world record that no one should be proud of

Fed a diet of fast fashion, Australian consumers buy more new clothes than any other country. And more steps are needed to tackle waste.

  • Melissa Singer

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