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    • Fashion + The Global Crisis
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    • Fashion + Sexuality
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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 + Throw-Away Culture

    Can we throw-away the throw-away culture?

    March 1, 2021 /

    In the UK, 350,000 tonnes of wearable clothing are disposed of in landfill per year. Instead of repairing, mending or thrifting old clothes, many are buying and disposing of clothes that are barely even a year old. It has created a ‘throw-away culture’ that feeds off trends, fashion statements and influencer culture. So, how has throw-away culture grown so fashionable? Why won’t it ever go away? And what can we do to stop it? The growth of throw-away culture The new norm of style over substance has sky-rocketed over recent years. The growth in technology and the internet has aided many to add to throw-away culture, with the likes of…

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    OMG I can’t wear the same outfit twice!

    March 4, 2021
  • Fashion + Sustainability

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

    April 8, 2020 /

    How Sustainable Fashion has entered mainstream thought and is beginning to take over the fashion industry. Sustainability has become part of a revolutionary fashion movement and is no longer considered sloppy eco fashion but has taken over the stylish and luxurious fashion catwalks of major fashion capitals of the world.

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    Second-hand Stigma

    What Does Wearing Vintage Fashion Say About You?

    July 7, 2019

    The low down on sustainable fashion textiles

    April 10, 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?

    Second Hand Fashion: From Milan to London

    July 29, 2019
  • Fashion + Consumerism

    My Year Without Fast Fashion

    December 8, 2019 /

    Written by Shahed EzaydiIg: @shahedezaydi In January 2018, I set myself the goal to cut my very bad habit of near-weekly deliveries of all things fashion. I would spend a significant amount of my free time mindlessly scrolling through websites and putting things into online baskets without really thinking about it. The increase in pay later schemes meant I often wasn’t processing the fact I had actually bought something. After looking into the absolutely disastrous impact the fashion industry has on our fragile planet, I decided enough was enough. I couldn’t change anything on a large scale, but I could put a stop to my own persistent consumerism. So, I…

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    We know that reducing our fashion footprint is a critical step that needs to be taken to reduce carbon emissions, so why do we find it so difficult to give up our ASOS addictions in favor of more ethical practices?

    #UseItMore

    September 20, 2019
    What caused the Rise of Conscious Fashion

    Avocado is Bae

    February 16, 2019
    Slow to Fast Fashion

    Four Decades of Fashion

    February 1, 2019
  • 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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    Fast fashion and the wholesale ruination of wildlife

    April 21, 2020

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

    April 7, 2020
    Fashion and Social Media

    Fashion: Charity Begins at Home

    June 27, 2019
  • Buying online or racing around a Fast Fashion store scanning the piles and piles of should-haves is nothing like wandering around a vintage shop scouring the rails for a must-have. Describe the differences in your shopping experience between hotfooting down the High Street and hunting for hand-me-downs
    Fashion + Sustainability

    Vintage Fashion: Sustainable Style

    August 2, 2019 /

    I used to walk past high street shops and fill to the brim with excitement. There is no doubt that the feeling got my adrenaline pumping. As a British girl living on the continent, my options for shopping were limited in my eyes. I took trips to London just to go to the Oxford Street Primark. My friends and I would go mad in that shop, buying all the latest bright-coloured trendy tops.  Although Primark was my favourite store, as a thirteen-year old I could easily be dragged into any famous high street shop. The whole experience was thrilling to me. A shopping trip never ended in disappointment. I was…

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    Brexit's Seamless War on Fashion Industry Could Change How We Shop

    April 6, 2020
    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?

    Bricks and Mortar

    August 31, 2019
    Buying online or racing around a Fast Fashion store scanning the piles and piles of should-haves is nothing like wandering around a vintage shop scouring the rails for a must-have. Describe the differences in your shopping experience between hotfooting down the High Street and hunting for Hand-me-downs.

    Vintage Fashion: A Wardrobe of Hidden Histories

    July 31, 2019
  • Buying online or racing around a Fast Fashion store scanning the piles and piles of should-haves is nothing like wandering around a vintage shop scouring the rails for a must-have. Describe the differences in your shopping experience between hotfooting down the High Street and hunting for Hand-me-downs.
    Fashion + Sustainability

    Vintage Fashion: A Wardrobe of Hidden Histories

    July 31, 2019 /

    By Molly TaubeInstagram: @smollmol Crafting an outfit can be a form of art, a ritual of creative selection and self-expression. How will you present yourself that day, what energy would you like to embody, how can your wardrobe facilitate capturing who you are or want to be? Clothes not only have utility but intrinsic value as forms of self-expression and a way of understanding yourself through your fashion choices. It makes sense then, that an important choice is what we will wear. This outfit selection can be as subtle or as captivating as you want depending on how you feel that day. Having the right clothes for the right mood…

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    Fashion: one of the most polluting industries on the planet

    April 2, 2020

    Sustainable fashion policy: is it all just a publicity stunt?

    April 3, 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?

    Second Hand Fashion: From Milan to London

    July 29, 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.
    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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    Millennials and Ethical Clothing

    Sustainable Fashion: The Millennial Dilemma

    March 26, 2019
    Conscious Fashion, a simple definition

    Just One Dress

    March 20, 2019
    Silk Scarf, Loved Clothes Last

    Scarf Love

    May 11, 2019
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    Fashion + Sustainability

    Second Hand Fashion: From Milan to London

    July 29, 2019 /

    By Mariangela BrunaInstagram: @maribruknitwear My view of second-hand clothes changed over the years and when I moved country. I grew up in Italy between the ’70s and the ’80s. Second-hand was definitely associated with second-class, poverty; not being able to afford new stuff was considered a kind of failure. My mum always bought new clothes for my brother and me. Although we had older cousins we very rarely inherited any clothes from them. I suppose my parents’ generation was still too close to WW2 (that some of them had experienced directly as children) and the poverty and hardship associated with wartimes. Plus, in the ’70s the economy was still growing,…

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    Conscious Fashion, a simple definition

    Just One Dress

    March 20, 2019

    Brexit's Seamless War on Fashion Industry Could Change How We Shop

    April 6, 2020
    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.

    Second-hand Stories

    July 23, 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?
    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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    Fast fashion’s identity crisis

    December 29, 2019
    Fashion and Mental Health

    Giving Fashion The Finger

    February 14, 2019

    My Year Without Fast Fashion

    December 8, 2019
  • Fashion and Mental Health
    Fashion + Mental Health

    Here’s how switching to sustainable fashion helped me recover from my eating disorder.

    May 8, 2019 /

    I realised I reached rock bottom in a changing room. I looked at my reflection: an underweight girl wearing a dress. How was it possible? I finally reached my goal size, why did I still hate the way that dress fit me? I see that 17 year-old girl rolling her eyes as I’m asked ‘How does fashion impact your mental health?’. And then I see her laughing as I answer, ‘Positively’. More Harm Than Good As contradictory as it may seem, I do think that fashion causes people more harm than good. ‘Oh my goooood, please no, she’s starting with that skinny models and photoshop thing’, I hear you crying.…

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    Can We Improve Plus Size Options?

    October 8, 2020
    Fast Fashion and Mental Health

    Mindless Consumerism and our Fast Fashion Habits

    February 28, 2019

    Is the Size of our Clothes Determining how we View Ourselves in the Mirror?

    October 22, 2020
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