Month: August 2022

Apart from invisible mending, manufacturers, and brands that value sustainability is starting to use visible mending to prolong the lifespan of their clothing and connect with consumers who care about sustainability. Such mending can be traced back to Japanese Sashiko stitching from the Edo period. Sashiko, which means “small stabs” in Japanese, refers to the […]

In a nutshell, “sustainable” implies “less worse”: new products manufactured from materials that are less harmful to the environment than they might have been. The issue at the foundation of fashion’s reluctant paradigm shift is that, whether you call it “sustainable” or not, the production of entertaining but pointless new things that people want is […]