Clothing is an everyday necessity because it reflects an individual’s culture, personality and preferences. Yet, in the current unsustainable model of society, clothes could be described as the elephant in the room. Today, less than 1% of the materials used to make clothes are recycled each year. This means that thousands of tonnes of textiles end up in the landfill. The concept of sustainable fashion and ethical clothing is the latest must-have fashion trend. The textile ind

We have all been there, going shopping to feel good on a bad day. This could be defined as ‘retail therapy’, a mechanism to give us temporary fulfilment by purchasing on impulse, and of course, it makes us feel good! Consumerism encourages the idea that happiness can be bought. This is a very problematic concept. In turn, we drift from our ‘true needs’ and turn to ‘false needs’ for temporary fulfilment. Retail therapy is much more of a common outlet than you may think, many o