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Mindless Mag is a storytelling space for FASHION + Stuff That Matters.

Each month we explore the relationship between fashion and important social issues such as mental health, climate change, body image and sustainability.

 

  • Fashion + Community

    Sustainable fashion: The community you want to be a part of

    January 18, 2021 /

    2020 has been a chaotic year; politics has become so polarised, the world has gone into lockdown, and our climate is descending into madness. But in reality, this could be our future if we don’t act now. 2020 was the year to save our planet and to hold the big industries accountable. 2020 was the year to redeem ourselves, but the pandemic has diverted our gaze to the immediate threats we’re facing. It’s time to make our consumption sustainable. Climate crisis Environmental activists have been flooding the media with statements trying to draw the world’s attention to our planet’s cry for help. We are rapidly depleting our resources and most…

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    How #OOTD Has Created a Global Fashion Community

    January 23, 2021

    How fashion can unite and divide communities

    January 9, 2021

    We are blind to our own thinking and behaviour: A short story of a young black woman

    January 14, 2021
  • Fashion + Technology

    The Horror Story of the Fashion World

    December 11, 2020 /

    Simply put, we are killing the planet. And one of the big contributors to this is the fashion industry. It is the third biggest pollutant on the planet and it continues to rip through our natural resources on a daily basis. We have the solution right under our noses, yet we still do nothing. We, as consumers, need to become more aware of the impact this industry is having. Our money is single-handedly funding our planet’s demise and the majority of us have no idea how. The life cycle of fashion The life cycle of your typical fashion garment is probably a bit of a mystery to most – other…

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    Fashion and Technology: The Rise of on Demand Fashion

    December 9, 2020

    Sustainability in Fashion and Technology

    December 5, 2020

    Fashion’s Digital Evolution: What’s Next for the Industry?

    December 4, 2020
  • Fashion + Psychology

    Should We Choose Fast Fashion or Conscious Buying?

    August 19, 2020 /

    When it’s easier to turn a blind eye to the problems of fast fashion, how do we even try to start solving the problem? The problems caused by fast fashion Fast fashion is quickly becoming a phrase that is actually starting to mean something to the people spending their money on it. With its utterance conjuring images of sweatshops, mountains of clothing destined to be worn once and never again, and oceans polluted with microfibers, fast fashion seems to be something we hate, but are doing little about. The company Boohoo, now recognised as one of the UK’s online clothing giants and valued at around £4.3 million, has recently been…

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    The body positivity effect of social media influencers

    August 15, 2020

    Stony Faced Style: How Gen Z Lift the Veil with ‘Meme Fashion’

    August 14, 2020

    Fashion & Psychology: Why Clothes Matter

    August 12, 2020
  • Fashion + Sexuality

    Will fashion ever be truly genderless?

    February 21, 2020 /

    In this article we’ll be investigating whether or not genderless fashion is just a trend, or whether it’s here to stay. While gender-fluidity can seem like quite a recent topic, it can be traced back to 1824. Hidden in the forests of Indiana, a small town called New Harmony was founded. In this town, both men and women could wear shirts and trousers. But how could one small town revolutionise gendered clothing while the rest of the world was trapped in rigid gender-stereotypes for the next 150-200 years? How has vintage and second-hand clothing changed gendered clothing? Now that sustainability is becoming a huge part of life for all of…

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    Toxic Masculinity: A Fashion Faux-Pas

    February 14, 2020
    guide to gender bending fashion

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    February 3, 2020
    dressing gay fashion sexuality and self expression

    Dressing gay: fashion for sexuality and self-expression

    February 17, 2020
  • Nowadays, you can find ‘second-hand’ clothes for 99p while a ‘vintage’ tag can push it towards £99. Did we trade in value for cool points when ‘vintage’ became a desirable look?
    Fashion + Sustainability

    Ambiguous Vintage

    September 3, 2019 /

    ‘Vintage’ can mean different things to different people and clever marketing has given it a rise in popularity in the last twenty years. Nowadays, you can find ‘second-hand’ clothes for 99p while a ‘vintage’ tag can push it towards £99. Did we trade in value for cool points when ‘vintage’ became a desirable look? When I first moved to London a few years ago, I was excited to discover events called Vintage Kilo Sales. The idea behind these events was quite simple – a local hall is filled with pre-loved items and the price of the clothes is determined by their weight. A kilo of clothes thus has a set…

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    Vintage Fashion: Once Upon a Frock – Ana’s Story

    July 17, 2019

    What are retailers doing to reduce Modern Slavery within their supply chains?

    April 18, 2020

    The Secret Cost of Fashion You Didn’t Know About

    April 14, 2020
  • Do charity shops, vintage boutiques and thrift stores suffer at the hands of online marketplaces such as eBay and Depop?
    Fashion + Sustainability

    The Supply and Demand Of Vintage Fashion

    August 22, 2019 /

    While online-only brands like ASOS, Boohoo and Missguided chip away at our formerly fashionable high streets, is the same true when it comes to second-hand? Do charity shops, vintage boutiques and thrift stores suffer at the hands of online marketplaces such as eBay and Depop? In December 2011, Mary ‘Queen of Shops’ Portas launched an independent review – recommended by the government – into the future of British high streets, researching the decline she believed to have ‘reached a crisis point’. Adamant at the time that business was the bottom line of the decision-making process, with sentimentality playing no part in her desire to turn the failing high street around,…

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    Millennials and Ethical Clothing

    Sustainable Fashion: The Millennial Dilemma

    March 26, 2019

    Myth-busting sustainable fashion

    April 4, 2020

    Sustainable Fashion: From 1990s ‘Sloppy Eco Style’ to Sustainable Stylish Fashion Trend

    April 8, 2020
  • Does using the term ‘vintage’ free you from the stigma or does buying second-hand clothes make you feel like a second-class citizen?
    Fashion + Sustainability

    Falling into the Cracks: The Second-Hand Struggle

    August 3, 2019 /

    Second-hand clothes are wardrobe treasures passed on from one person to the next and each unique item tells a story – yet they seem to get a mixed review among shoppers. Does using the term ‘vintage’ free you from the stigma or does buying second-hand clothes make you feel like a second-class citizen? Let’s get it out of the way. A bulk of the stigma around second-hand clothes exists along class lines. For many people who are living from pay cheque to pay cheque, second-hand clothes are the only viable option to dress themselves and their families. Declaring that they shop vintage doesn’t change their everyday reality nor does it suddenly remove the obstacles they face as…

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    Second-hand Stories

    July 23, 2019
    What is Conscious Fashion?

    Conscious Fashion: Beige is the New Black

    March 15, 2019

    Can we find a sustainable solution to the business of fashion?

    April 7, 2020
  • Second-hand clothes are wardrobe treasures passed on from one person to the next and each unique item tells a story – yet they seem to get a mixed review amongst shoppers.
    Fashion + Sustainability

    Vintage vs Charity Stores: ‘Who Are We?’

    July 30, 2019 /

    Second-hand clothes are wardrobe treasures passed on from one person to the next and each unique item tells a story – yet they seem to get a mixed review amongst shoppers. Does using the term ‘vintage’ free you from the stigma or does buying second-hand clothes make you feel like a second-class citizen? By Annabel LindsayInstagram: @annabellindsay To quote the official Wild Child herself, aka Miss Poppy Moore, “If we could just call this stuff vintage and add three zeros to the price tag, I could totally get into it”. This very important pop culture reference, I believe, is the perfect opener for exploring the stigma woven into second-hand clothing. The term ‘second-hand’ seems irrelevant when buying…

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    What does Conscious Fashion mean?

    Fashion Fraudsters

    March 10, 2019

    Fashion: one of the most polluting industries on the planet

    April 2, 2020

    Fast fashion and the wholesale ruination of wildlife

    April 21, 2020
  • Second-hand clothes are wardrobe treasures passed on from one person to the next and each unique item tells a story – yet they seem to get a mixed review amongst shoppers. Does using the term ‘vintage’ free you from the stigma or does buying second-hand clothes make you feel like a second-class citizen?
    Fashion + Consumerism

    Thrift Fashion Hauls: Changing Trends, Changing Attitudes

    July 28, 2019 /

    By Carissa KotyuhaInstagram: @carissablount Twitter: @carissastoryy “Fashion trends tend to repeat themselves”, said my mom on several occasions over my 24 years on this planet. Every 20-30 years, some trend highly distinguishable for its presence in the last few decades pops up again on the fashion runway and trickles down to the storefronts of Forever 21’s across the country. From high-waists to bell-bottoms, fashion trends seem to fade out just as quickly as they came in. Most of our closets and drawers are filled to the brim with pieces that reflect trends that have come and gone, but are eventually sorted through and then donated or thrown away. But a growing…

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    March 28, 2019
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    Fashion’s Dirty Secrets, and mine

    May 3, 2019
    Fashion and Economy

    Luxury Lunacy

    March 6, 2019
  • There’s something magical about shopping for second hand clothes; it’s a treasure hunt for a hidden gem and when you find something, you cherish it forever.
    Fashion + Sustainability

    Second-hand Stories

    July 23, 2019 /

    There’s something magical about shopping for second hand clothes; it’s a treasure hunt for a hidden gem and when you find something, you cherish it forever. Words by Rachel McMinn Since I was a young girl, I’ve always loved second-hand clothes, to me it was normal – I’d always get clothes given to me from my mum’s friend’s daughters, my brother’s friends, my brother’s girlfriends etc. and whenever my mum would give me a bag of second-hand clothes I would be so excited.  Fashion has always been a love of mine, so to get a load of new clothes without spending a penny was fantastic, I’d try everything on and give my…

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    Fashion's Dirty Secrets

    Between Net-a-Porter and Knock-offs

    April 26, 2019
    Fashion and Social Media

    Should conscious fashion brands be slowing down their social media activity?

    June 25, 2019

    Modern slavery: the dark truth of the UK’s fast fashion garment industry

    April 16, 2020
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