Posts

Sustainable fashion: an app to learn, buy, sell and advocate

Image
Have you ever looked into your wardrobe and thought, “I have nothing to wear” or “I need a complete revamp”? We’ve all been there. Our most common instinct is to go buy new clothes and then, maybe, donate or throw out the old ones we no longer need.  Throwing away stuff, whether that is material things or food, is hitting the headlines more and more, as we are becoming ever more conscious of the impact we are having on our planet. We are beginning to see the popularity of apps that are saving food t hat would otherwise be thrown away  in restaurants or homes.  Karma , Too Good to Go , Olio , the list of apps goes on. Yet there is something else that we are throwing out that needs to be talked about: CLOTHES.  Did you know that, on average, in the UK each person  buys 27.6 kg of clothes every year ? This is the highest consumption rate in Europe! We live in a world where the concepts of fast fashion (where brands are producing clothes at an al...