• Are Fast-Fashion Companies Really Sustainable?

    With the emergence of new evidence accusing various fast-fashion companies of  Green washing, Daria explores weather these brands can really be considered as sustainable. ...
  • TikTok: A New Platform For Aspiring Arts-And-Crafters?

    Gemma Cockrell Tik Tok has quickly become the most popular social media platform for sharing art. Whether an aspiring artist attempting to gain that all-important, career-starting exposure, or simply someone trying to fill their time creatively during lockdown, DIY painting, sewing, and drawing tutorials are finding significantly sized audiences,...
  • How To Be Spooky And Sustainable This Hallowe’en

    It our favourite part of Autumn … Halloween is here. And with each year, comes a surplus of waste which is produced from this fast-fashion, plastic loving holiday....
  • How TikTok Has Influenced Gen Z Style During Lockdown

    ‘I don’t dress cool so men will pay attention to me. I dress cool so thirteen-year-old girls will walk by me down the street and whisper to their friends: “did you see that girls outfit? She looked so fucking cool”’. For Generation Z, Tiktok is the platform for a...
  • Selfridges is the latest fashion brand to ban exotic skins

    Fourteen years after the department store banned the sale of fur, the ban has now been extended to include exotic skins, starting in February 2020. The luxury store will still sell leather from agricultural livestock, a move which arguably reduces waste when animals are slaughtered for human consumption. The...
  • The Fast Fashion Footprint

    Public consciousness about sustainability is rising and thank goodness! We are becoming increasingly socially aware of the damage we are doing to the environment and we have already enacted change such as the 5p plastic bag charge or the Waste Nott campaign on the UoN campus. We are taking...