Celeb Spotlight: Emma Watson & Ethical Fashion

Sustainability never goes out of style! That's why we're still excited to spread the news about Emma Watson's partnership with the fashion company People Tree back in 2010 and 2011.

People Tree is a sustainable and fair trade fashion brand, and beginning in 2010 they teamed up with Emma Watson to create their first ever youth fashion collection.  It was a pretty big deal!  Check out what people were saying about it:

"Emma Watson brings her glam touch to ethical fashion" -Teen Vogue

"These clothes transcend their worthy beginnings and just became cool... this is a great capsule collection" - The Times 

It's always awesome to see people supporting fair trade, especially someone like Emma Watson, who is a role model for many girls.  Sustainability and the importance of fair trade are at the core of five ACCESSORIES's company values, and we love that Emma shares our views.  Here's what Emma stated about the collection:

 

I don’t want to wear something on my body that hurts the environment or the people in it. It’s hard to know what is good and what is bad on the high street and equally hard to find fashionable or youthful ethical clothing. It shocks me that even today only 1% of cotton produced in the world is Fair Trade and organic. I decided to work with People Tree to put together a collection I could be proud of in terms of both ethics and design.

 

Way to go Emma! Congrats on a great collection and thanks for helping to spread the word about ethical fashion.   

 

Sources: http://www.peopletree.co.uk/about-us/collaborations/emma-watson

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleybaccam/emma-watson-endorsed-fair-trade-fashion

Who Made Your Clothes?

FASHION REVOLUTION DAY

24 APRIL 2014

It’s not common to ask yourself, “Who made my clothes?” But it should be. We need to be more curious about how our clothes are made and who made them. Fashion is about relationships. Fashion Revolution Day is about reestablishing those broken relationships and the connections we’ve lost with the clothes that we wear. The first ever FRD will be about transparency, asking you to ask yourself this very question.

Fashion Revolution (www.fashionrevolution.org) brought last year’s Rana Plaza disaster to the world’s attention:

"On April 24^th last year, 1133 people were killed when the Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Many more were injured. Today, people are still suffering as a direct result of our fashion supply chain. Fashion Revolution Day says enough is enough.

On this first anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster, we’ll start by remembering its victims and raising awareness of the fashion industry's biggest challenges. But because we want fashion to be a force for good, we’ll also be celebrating fashion and spreading excitement about the power it has to make big change happen fast."

Fashion Revolution asks everyone who is part of FRD to show their support for better connections and transparency across the fashion supply chain by wearing an item of clothing inside out, photographing it and then sharing it with the hashtag #insideout. So tweet it, link it, like it, share it. Spread the word. Let's turn fashion into a force for good.

#insideout