Bangladesh grows 2% of its cotton needs and People Tree is working to convert this into organic, Fair Trade cotton. Working closely with its organic cotton partner Agrocel last year we trained three agriculturalists from Bangladesh at Agrocel in India. These workers then returned to their areas and started the two pilot projects, one at Waste Concern in Bogra and the second at Swallows in Thanapara.
What a great start to the day – 8.30 in the morning and I find myself in West London attending the Cosmopolitan Online Fashion Awards, and guess what, People Tree only went and WON the Best Ethical E-tailer Award.
What a great start to the day – 8.30 in the morning and I find myself in West London attending the Cosmopolitan Online Fashion Awards, and guess what, People Tree only went and WON the Best Ethical E-tailer Award.
Jane Shepherdson picks her favourite pieces from the SS08 collection.
According to the Fairtrade Foundation 20% of people said they’d support Fair Trade but they just hadn’t made it their habit yet. For goodness sake the easy thing is buying it from a supermarket shelf – it can take years for a Fair Trade product and industry to benefit from being mainstreamed like this. The least you could do is buy Fair Trade.
I’m in Nepal where I was working with People Tree producer groups who make hand-knit wear and handicrafts along with three People Tree designers. It seems like the only thing that Nepal has going for it economically is Fair Trade – the economy has slid backwards.
It’s that time of year again I fly in from Nepal (coming in next blog) straight into London Fashion Week. Where People Tree presents its AW08 collection at Estethica.
Snowball fight at Davos – Reed Paget of Belu Water UK and Garth Japhet of Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication, South Africa.
People tree photoshoot in the autumn sunshine
We finished the lookbook shoot for 2012 SS, Summer edition and AW in Japan last month….
London St Pauls protest can stay until New Year!
People Tree reports from St Pauls – watch + share the film
The most perfect day at the beach this year – Japan
Hosted by lovely eco-lodge Villa Shirahama, up at 5 to shoot next Spring’s Collection in Izu
autumn/winter 2010
bangladesh
bora aksu
christmas
embroidery
emma watson
emma watson collection
environment
fair trade
fair trade accessories
fair trade clothing
fair trade dresses
fair trade fashion
fair trade fashion show
fair trade jewellery
fair trade producers
fashion show
fashion trends
festivals
hand knitted
hand made
hand woven
jo wood organics
karen nicol
knitwear
knitwear
laura bailey
Menswear
organic
organic clothing
organic cotton
organic cotton clothing
organic kids
orla kiely
people tree
people tree japan
safia minney
sample sale
spring collection
stripes
summer collection
vintage
winter collection
world fair trade day
youth collection
