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Fast fashion? No, thanks - which brands to avoid

Non-profit organisation Remake has teamed up with Commons, an organisation that advocates for more sustainable consumer choices. A campaign is currently underway with the hashtag #NoNewClothes, calling on consumers to boycott fast fashion and spend less for a month. Given the reduced purchasing power of consumers who are very careful about their...

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Remake announces latest fellowship class

Commemorating Women’s History Month, non-profit organisation Remake has announced the new Remake Fellows Class of 2024, which consists of five accomplished fashion industry trailblazers: Vogue’s digital producer Cassandra Pintro, Tega Collective founder and fashion designer Niha Elety, Climate Diva founder Summer Dean, journalist Sophia Li and...

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Remake’s “Fashion Accountability Report 2024” shows industry’s need to act on promises

Now in its fourth year, non-profit organisation Remake has published its latest annual “Fashion Accountability Report 2024”. It measured the performance of 52 large fashion companies (more than 100 US dollars in annual revenue) like Fast Retailing, H&M, Inditex, Kering, LVMH and PVH in six key areas: traceability, wages and wellbeing, commercial...

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Remake received backing from Fashion Impact Fund

Fashion Impact Fund, a provider of grants that aim to support educational programmes, has issued funding to Remake to support the advocacy organisation’s efforts in fighting for fair pay. The 50,000 dollar grant will particularly be used to help in Remake’s mission of bringing the voices of garment workers to the forefront, according to Fashion...

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2023, the year of some of the world’s biggest music tours, but at what cost?

If there was one thing that prevailed in 2023, it was the slew of record-breaking tours by some of the world’s most influential musicians, who descended on venues in each corner of the earth to play for the hundreds of thousands of fans that keep them firmly thrust into the limelight. Despite the bright lights of some of the biggest...

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Burberry and Levi’s top Remake’s Fashion Accountability report for 2022

Now in its fifth year of publication, Remake’s Fashion Accountability report is continuing its efforts to expose brands’ transparency issues and unethical supply chains within the industry. For its 2022 report, the organisation said it was responding directly to the rise in overproduction and garment worker exploitation that have been...

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Levi’s targeted by watchdog Remake over alleged human rights violations

Denim brand Levi’s has increasingly become the subject of a campaign by global advocacy organisation Remake highlighting the retailer’s apparent lack of support for the Accord on Health and Safety. The watchdog, which centres its efforts around fighting for fair pay and climate justice in the clothing industry, has taken to social media to...

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Remake’s new Accountability Report 2021 rates 60 fashion companies

Non-profit organisation Remake has updated its approach to holding the industry accountable. The new brand assessment criteria, put together in its just published “Remake 2021 Fashion Accountability Report” enables companies to score up to 150 points and moves beyond celebrating ambitious but hollow goals and targets. It focuses on six key...

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California passes Garment Worker Protection Act

On Monday, September 27th, 2021, governor Gavin Newsom signed the Garment Worker Protection Act (SB62) into California law. This means that the more than 45,000 Californian garment workers will receive at least a minimum wage for their labor, currently 14 US dollars per hour. In comparison, garment workers have been struggling for decades under...

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One year later: How are garment workers and suppliers faring since the Covid-19 pandemic started?

A recent panel to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on garment workers and suppliers revealed that one year later, not all is well in the world of fashion. In fact, research shows that garment workers are going hungry, brands are asking for steep discounts on new orders, and wages to factory workers are going down; all of this is...

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PayUp Fashion initiative launches to secure industry’s future

In March of this year, US-based NGO Remake together with partnering organisation and labour activist and founder of the AWAJ Foundation, Nazma Akter, launched the #PayUp initiative that urges international brands and retailers to honour their commitments and pay suppliers for in-production orders at the earliest. Since then, the movement has...

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New short film highlights plight of garments “Made in America”

Is apparel manufacturing close to home the better, safer and fairer option? Not necessarily as various exposés regarding “Made in Europe” have shown and across the pond, “Made in America” does not fare any better. In a just released short film with the same title, US-based NGO Remake gives viewers a look into multiple Los Angeles clothing...