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Sustainable sneaker brand Ethletic implements first global tip for workers with Tip Me

In times when international buyers cancel or postpone their orders, things are looking bleak for garment factories and their workers - the factories have to reduce their output or shut down temporarily with workers earning correspondingly less or being laid off, quickly reaching their financial limits without a social safety net. German sneaker...

Fashion |INTERVIEW Featured

Fair Frank: Connecting customers with those who make their shoes

Amsterdam - Do you ever wonder who made your shoes? Although every single consumer owns at least 5 pairs of shoes, not many care to ask where their shoes come from, or who made them. However, Andreas Fransson, founder of fair-trade footwear label Fair Frank, aims to change this by actively encouraging his customers to ask who made their shoes...

Fashion |INTERVIEW Featured

Fair Trade: Graduate Aims to Bring Fashion to Cameroon

Kibonen Nfi hopes that her country of Cameroon will soon realize that fashion is as legitimate and rewarding a career as being a doctor or lawyer, and will support its immense homegrown talent. “After all, it happened with soccer,” explains Kibonen. “At first Cameroonian people were very sceptical the sport could be a professional pursuit, but...

Retail

Traidcraft opens retail outlet

Traidcraft, the UK’s leading fair trade organisation, has opened its first retail outlet in nearly three decades. Situated on Gateshead’s Team Valley, the store stocks a range of fair trade products from artisans and producers across the developing world, including fair trade apparel, jewellery, accessories, ethical homewares, toys and a...