𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐀 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐊 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍 𝟐 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒.

FASHION = ECOCIDE = INJUSTICE
REPAIR-REWEAR-REBEL

Come along to a Guerilla Repair session and learn a new skill that will help you to repair and remodel items in your wardrobe that you might otherwise discard. Take pride in repairing and personalising your clothes with visible mending techniques that look great and save your old clothes from landfill!

**𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐘 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃: https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAEt015Yq83QN_rJPBA

**𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭:
• 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩? (if no, check here – https://extinctionrebellion.uk/act-now/local-groups/ – and contact your local group)
• 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐕𝐃𝐀 (𝐍𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧) 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠? (if no, check this link for online trainings – https://extinctionrebellion.uk/event/nvda-workshop/ )
• 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠? – https://extinctionrebellion.uk/the-truth/the-emergency/ –
• 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞? 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐔𝐒 𝐎𝐍: 𝐱𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧@𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦
• 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧?

**𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑**
An action that XRFA uses to oppose the fashion industry’s many human, animal and environmental injustices by sharing some creative ways of reducing the overconsumption of fashion. During the action we repair, remake and refashion items of clothing that “business as usual” would discard.

REPAIR – REWEAR – REBEL!

*𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆** (𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬)

• An old T-shirt that you want to upcycle into something new (to make into T-shirt yarn)
• Or an item of clothing that needs repair (jumper or jeans with rips/holes/stains)
• Crochet hooks or knitting needles
• Scissors
• Tennis balls (or similar item) – for learning to darn holes
• Needles, threads, embroidery threads or yarn
• Don’t forget your face covering and hand sanitiser!

**𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐏 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐒** (𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬)

• Visible mending (e.g. sashiko, darning with colour)
• Easy crochet or knitting projects with -T-shirt yarn
• Embroidery embellishment/personalisation of garments
•Easy hand-sew alterations (e.g. rehemming trousers)

**𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐘**

• The fashion industry currently produces around 10% of all humanity’s carbon emissions, more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined. 𝑤𝑤𝑤.𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.𝑜𝑟𝑔

• If the fashion industry continues on its current trajectory its emissions are predicted to increase by around 50% by 2030, despite the current levels of CO2 in our environment already exceeding what is considered a safe limit by scientists. 𝑤𝑤𝑤.𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.𝑜𝑟𝑔

• It is one of the largest consumers of the world’s water supply, pollutes the oceans with chemicals and micro-plastics and poses a serious threat to biodiversity through land use and habitat loss. According to the latest Living Planet Index the earth has already witnessed a 60% decline in biodiversity in the last 40 years. 𝑤𝑤𝑤.𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒.𝑜𝑟𝑔/𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠/𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔-𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡-𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡-2018

Humanity simply cannot afford to continue down this destructive path. The fashion industry urgently needs to clean up its act. Currently the cost of staying “on trend” is having disastrous implications for our planet, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃

• It is estimated that over 800,000 tonnes of discarded textile waste annually in the UK. ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑠://𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠.𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.𝑢𝑘/𝑝𝑎/𝑐𝑚201719/𝑐𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡/𝑐𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑎𝑢𝑑/1952/𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡-𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠/195207.ℎ𝑡𝑚

• The equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or incinerated every second, contributing to CO2 emissions and therefore the increase of global warming. ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑠://𝑤𝑤𝑤.𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.𝑜𝑟𝑔/𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑠/𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑠/𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠/𝐴-𝑁𝑒𝑤-𝑇𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠-𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑦_𝐹𝑢𝑙𝑙-𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡_𝑈𝑝𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑_1-12-17.𝑝𝑑𝑓

• The Western world now consumes 400% more textiles than we did just 20 years ago and this drastic upward curve is predicted to continue. ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑠://𝑐𝑑𝑛.𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ.𝑢𝑘/𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠/𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡/𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠/𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑠/𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.𝑝𝑑𝑓

In order to meet this demand 100 billion pieces of clothing are produced every year to keep fashion cheap is resulting in millions of garment workers suffering under modern slavery. https://cleanclothes.org/fashions-problems/waste-and-pollution

𝐖𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐈𝐍𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄

G20 countries imported $127 billion fashion garments identified as at-risk products of modern slavery. (2018) https://www.globalslaveryindex.org

The ILO estimates that 170 million children are engaged in child labour, with many making textiles and garments to satisfy the demand of consumers in Europe, the US and other countries. http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—ipec/documents/publication/wcms_221513.pdf

Slavery in the fashion industry can exist at various stages of the supply chain: from harvesting and processing the raw material to assembling the garment and modelling the final product.
Workers are often forced to operate in dangerous conditions for a grossly substandard living wage.

Although ‘fast fashion’ is most commonly targeted for its heavy reliance on sweatshop labour and processes that cause ecological damage, it should be acknowledged that these practices exist across the industry from budget to luxury fashion. In fact, it is not uncommon to find workers in the same factory producing both designer garments and their high street imitations. Most luxury brands simply do not publish sufficient information about their environmental policies or provide any evidence of a commitment to ensuring that their workforce receives a living wage or safe working conditions.

We believe that fashion at all levels should take responsibility for ensuring that the supply chain is free from human, animal and planetary exploitation.

𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐓

Fashion giants have introduced more ‘eco-friendly’ textiles like organic cotton and circulose into their latest collections. However this strategy of misrepresentation, dubbed as ‘green-washing’, presents its own set of problems.

Consumers are being encouraged to believe that such garments are free from environmental exploitation and ‘guilt-free’. In reality, any clothing produced on such a mass scale can never be truly sustainable. The problems that really need addressing are overproduction and overconsumption, which are only being swept under the rug by green washing.

** 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐋𝐎𝐀𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒: soon…

** 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uQ1vuVMRsdrrdNlDAFRh7PDg8eV8DyS9DH23CPacw30/edit

𝐓𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭: 𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐱𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.𝐜𝐨𝐦

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬: @𝐱𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 @𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧

𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰: @𝐱𝐫.𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧 @𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝

**𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐒**

• PANDEMIC OR NOT ‘SUSTAINABLE’ FASHION BRANDS ARE STILL IGNORING THE EXPLOITATION OF THOUSANDS OF GARMENT WORKERS.
ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑠://𝑤𝑤𝑤.𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡.𝑐𝑜.𝑢𝑘/𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠/𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡-𝑓𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑜𝑛-𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑎-𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡-𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦-ℎ-𝑎𝑛𝑑-𝑚-𝑎9582561.ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑙

• LUXURY’S HIDDEN INDIAN SUPPLY CHAIN
ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑠://𝑤𝑤𝑤.𝑛𝑦𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠.𝑐𝑜𝑚/2020/03/11/𝑠𝑡𝑦𝑙𝑒/𝑑𝑖𝑜𝑟-𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡-𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡-𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛-𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟-𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑙

• DID ‘SLAVE LABOR’ MAKE YOUR DESIGN BAG? NEW REPORT FINDS LUXURY BRANDS LIKE PRADA, FENDI AND DIOR RANK AMONG THE WORST RETAILERS FOR PROTECTING WORKERS FROM EXPLOITATION.
ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑠://𝑤𝑤𝑤.𝑑𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑦𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙.𝑐𝑜.𝑢𝑘/𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠/𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒-6500211/𝐿𝑢𝑥𝑢𝑟𝑦-𝑓𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑜𝑛-𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠-𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒-𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑎-𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖-𝑢𝑠𝑒-𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑-𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦-𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑠-𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒-𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑠.ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑙

• THE HIGH COST OF HIGH FASHION
ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑠://𝑤𝑤𝑤.𝑗𝑎𝑐𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑚𝑎𝑔.𝑐𝑜𝑚/2017/06/𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡-𝑓𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑜𝑛-𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟-𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑎-𝑔𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑖-𝑎𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑒-𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑟

• HOW ETHICAL ARE HAUTE COUTURE BRANDS
ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑠://𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑢.𝑒𝑐𝑜/ℎ𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑒-𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒-𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙/

• H&M ACCUSED OF ‘GREENWASHING’ OVER PLANS TO MAKE CLOTHES FROM SUSTAINABLE FABRIC
ℎ𝑡𝑡𝑝𝑠://𝑤𝑤𝑤.𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡.𝑐𝑜.𝑢𝑘/𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒-𝑠𝑡𝑦𝑙𝑒/𝑓𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑜𝑛/ℎ𝑚-𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑤𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔-𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒-𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒-𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑎-𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟-𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎-𝑎9312566.ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑙