A heritage-listed hat factory has burned down in Surry Hills. The suburb was once a hub of fashion manufacturing.
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If you’re going to a wedding this summer, you should consider renting your outfit.
Ten years after the collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, the garment industry’s deadliest disaster, reforms are incomplete. The opaqueness of today’s complex supply chain is part of the problem.
We look back to the 2013 Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,124 people and discuss how much — or how little — has changed for garment-worker conditions today.
By understanding clothing care labels, you can extend the lifespan of your clothes.
On Presidents Day, a women in politics scholar examines the meaning, and sometimes outsized focus, on first ladies’ fashion choices.
Increasing recycled-fibre clothing offerings should not absolve the fashion industry from the urgent need to reduce production overall.
Tests found PFAS in school uniforms, pillows, upholstered furniture and several other items that are often next to children’s skin and near their noses and mouths.
Your T-shirt may have travelled one-and-a-half times round the world to reach you.
While the style and fit of sport apparel may seem like a minor detail in the broader scheme of things, what if it’s not? Let’s let women and girls dress for the role they want to play in women’s sport.
How an item of traditional Afghan dress became a staple of western “hippie” fashion from the 1960s right up to today.
After an Indian politician disparaged a woman for her lack of morals because she was wearing ripped jeans, an online protest erupted, reviving the original protest-culture of the ripped jean.
Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has won the right not to wear a tie in parliament — his party’s legacy can’t end there.
Far from mere underwear, singlets have many cultural meanings. Once worn chiefly by shearers, laborers and soldiers, they have been embraced on dance floors and in the gym.
More companies are selling products that claim to keep you cool on hot days. But it turns out that common materials used in sports clothing may not always be the best.
COVID-19 has been disastrous for people who make our clothes, but there are small signs of hope.
How even sleepy, rural Mid Wales was once an industrial heartland feeding the slave trade.
The typical American’s annual household carbon footprint is over five times the world per capita average.
A trademark law scholar explains why the impossible-to-apply standard, dating back to the early 20th century, is ineffective and needs to be abolished.
Making more sustainable fashion choices doesn’t require a massive lifestyle change.
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Director & Associate Professor of Sports Product Design, University of Oregon
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Senior Lecturer and Program Manager, Bachelor of Fashion (Enterprise) program, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress
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Professor and Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Fashion and Material Culture, Nottingham Trent University
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Furman Public Policy Scholar, New York University
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Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
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Senior Research Associate in Design for Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Fashion Design, School of Design and Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale University
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Honorary Associate Professor of History, The University of Queensland