From Store to Shore - Textile Exchange

From Store to Shore – Textile Exchange

This powerful short documentary explores the impact of fashion overproduction and textile waste on Accra, Ghana. In collaboration with The OR Foundation, the film follows the women of Kantamanto Market, highlighting their work in secondhand clothing, repair and upcycling, while exposing the growing environmental and social toll of discarded garments. A compelling reminder that fashion’s responsibility doesn’t end at the point of sale.

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Front Row to Front Bench - Book club podcast

Front Row to Front Bench is Fashion Roundtable’s podcast exploring fashion, culture, sustainability and policy through conversations with leading voices from the industry. The latest season features a monthly book club with authors and guests including sustainability researcher Kate Fletcher and The Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant.

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Lydia Bolton

London-based designer turning deadstock and unwanted textiles into one-off pieces — think tablecloth offcuts reborn as gingham sets, old blankets remade into sweater vests. She also runs upcycling workshops (Nike, UGG and Lime have tapped her for collabs), teaching people the skills to extend a garment's life.

Great follow if you want your feed to make "sustainable" look genuinely fun and doable, not just aspirational.

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Good Witch - Lucianne Tonti

A paradigm-shifting book that asks what the world might be like if divine feminine power had never been devalued. And shows us how it is being reclaimed.

Gardener. Gossip. Spinster. Healer. Nymph . . . Witch.

For centuries, the work of women was viewed with suspicion. Their knowledge – of bodies, nature, and community – posed a threat to a masculine order. To men who saw them as something to be contained and controlled.

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Someone Should Stop This - Alec Leach

The future looks kinda scary, doesn’t it?

But what if climate change could show us the links between far-right politics, toxic masculine echo chambers and our declining quality of life?

That’s what this book is about. It’s about carbon emissions and solar panels, but also new ideas about wellbeing and belonging, fairer economics and ambitious political movements that refuse to accept a broken status quo.

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The Unmaking of Kowtow

Published to mark 20 years of Kowtow, The Unmaking Of reflects on where we've been, what we've learned, and where fashion must go next.

Part archive, part manifesto, the book brings together stories, essays and imagery that trace two decades of questioning convention and imagining a different future for clothing.


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No Ordinary Cloth

From biomaterials and next-generation fibres to circular systems and advanced manufacturing, No Ordinary Cloth explores the textile innovations shaping fashion's future through conversations with researchers, designers and innovators.

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Wasted by Marcus Cook of Homie

WASTED: A Global Journey Into Circular Fashion, Repair and Responsible Production

What does fashion waste look like when you move past the campaigns, headlines and big promises? In this documentary, Marcus Crook, Co-Founder and Creative Director of HoMie and REBORN by HoMie, travels across nine cities and four continents as part of a Winston Churchill Fellowship to understand how circular fashion works in real life.

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Seamless Australia

Seamless, Australia's Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme is a plan to transform how clothing is made, used, reused, and recycled in Australia to create clothing circularity by 2030.

Seamless takes a stewardship approach, which recognises that the fashion and clothing brands who place clothes on the market are responsible for the entire life of that garment, from design through to recycling or sustainable disposal.

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Dead White Man’s Clothes - Atmos x OR foundation

Approximately 15 million items of secondhand clothing enter the market in Accra every single week

Dead White Man's Clothes" is a powerful multimedia documentary project and article series published by Atmos Magazine in collaboration with Or Foundation, examining the devastating global impact of fashion waste in Accra, Ghana’s Kantamanto Market. The phrase "obroni w'awu" translates locally to "dead white man's clothes," originating from the belief that such an immense overflow of secondhand garments from the Global North could only belong to deceased foreigners

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