ADVANCING SUSTAINABLE FASHION SOLUTIONS THAT HONOR PEOPLE AND THE PLANET

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Increased regulation, changing consumer demands, environmental impact, labor law, and competition from sustainable to conventional brands are just a few issues the fashion industry faces today.
The vast majority of producers and consumers in fashion are women. improving the industry’s impact is essential for women’s empowerment around the world.
We need a giant toolkit to create the transformative, systemic change necessary to move from an extractive model to a regenerative one. And we need to utilize every tool we can to make this transition in enough time to not exceed planetary boundaries.
Our fashion decisions have a profound impact on women globally. The clothes we create and ways we consume them deeply impact our broader workforce and environment.
If we let it, there is a beautiful web which can connect all of us in powerful and affirming ways.

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A HISTORICAL LOOK AT THE AMERICAN GARMENT INDUSTRY AND ITS IMPACT ON LABOR MOVEMENTS IN THE U.S.

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In our latest installment of We Can Do This! Sally Greenberg, CEO of National Consumers League, sits down with Rebecca Ballard to discuss the fashion and garment industry.

Sally and Rebecca, an experienced and leading authority on sustainable fashion and founder of the consulting firm Ballard Advisory, discuss the incredible linkage connecting the garment industry’s history with the work of NCL specifically with respect to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the early 1900s, women’s and workers’ rights movements in the U.S., and child labor exploitation.

Rebecca, a former Labor and Employment Attorney with the U.S. Department of Commerce and owner of the sustainable fashion line Maven Women, recently penned a guest blog for NCL titled “The FABRIC Act will address garment industry workplace concerns.”