https://www.thefashionconnection.org/blog daily 0.75 2023-11-10 https://www.thefashionconnection.org/blog/meet-tfcs-new-executive-director monthly 0.5 2023-11-10 https://www.thefashionconnection.org/blog/streamlining-sampling-amp-sizing-sustainability-through-the-lens-of-fit monthly 0.5 2023-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1694987192530-2I16TVV2L0ZAMJWEGXY3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Streamlining Sampling & Sizing: Sustainability Through the Lens of Fit - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/8482fd35-82db-4d22-bbc1-819e0e277e4b/Laura+Headshot_corrected.jpg Blog - Streamlining Sampling & Sizing: Sustainability Through the Lens of Fit - Laura Zwanziger Laura is a designer and entrepreneur who has focused on fit, sizing, and sampling throughout her career. 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She pivoted to go to business school at MIT, where she began work on Fit for Everybody, focusing on improving supply chain efficiency and sustainability through the lens of fit and sizing. https://www.thefashionconnection.org/blog/social-audit-pitfalls-amp-recommended-next-steps-part-i monthly 0.5 2023-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1692891934068-AF0RXMC90WC23IC8PAJM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Social Audit Pitfalls & Recommended Next Steps Part I - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/b8e7e5db-9059-43db-a07e-8ebfc8121e34/headshot.jpg Blog - Social Audit Pitfalls & Recommended Next Steps Part I - Wendy Blanpied Wendy Blanpied has worked for over 20 years addressing human rights abuses, including child and forced labor, gender-based violence and other labor and child rights, globally for the US government, companies, civil society organizations and the UN. She works to develop strategies to address the risk of human rights abuses in global supply chains. She currently works on an innovative project developing global traceability schemes in the cotton and cobalt supply chains with ELEVATE Limited. 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She founded The Fashion Connection to make connections advancing the U.S. sustainable fashion movement, and she advises companies, nonprofits, and individuals through Rebecca Ballard Advisory. Rebecca has lived in or visited all of the top 10 garment-producing countries in our world. https://www.thefashionconnection.org/blog/the-us-textile-problem monthly 0.5 2023-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1686064410313-PEBE74UP97LTLJQSRNCP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The U.S. Textile Problem - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/91100342-0341-46b3-b1c5-e99a8d4f8cc5/IMG_7636+%281%29.jpg Blog - The U.S. Textile Problem - Jairo Ayala Jairo is a passionate community engagement professional based in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. 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He has had the pleasure to work for various human service initiatives and is passionate about advancing human rights in the fashion industry. He holds a degree in social work and hopes to use this to contribute to a more ethical, sustainable industry. https://www.thefashionconnection.org/blog/blog-post-title-one-ec46g monthly 0.5 2023-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1690486711402-ZGC6SR7ZDAS7MVYMO9DA/joel-muniz-0QuIgOjLLXc-unsplash.jpg Blog - Can Community Engagement Enhance Sustainable Fashion? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/3464a121-4868-42b1-a864-92643182fae2/IMG_7636+%281%29.jpg Blog - Can Community Engagement Enhance Sustainable Fashion? - Jairo Ayala Jairo is a passionate community engagement professional based in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. He has had the pleasure to work for various human service initiatives and is passionate about advancing human rights in the fashion industry. He holds a degree in social work and hopes to use this to contribute to a more ethical, sustainable industry. https://www.thefashionconnection.org/blog/ending-forced-labor-an-opportunity-to-advocate monthly 0.5 2023-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/efd48862-eb86-4aea-86ac-60d0253d4f32/take+action.jpg Blog - Ending Forced Labor: An Opportunity to Advocate - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1974cd87-f224-480e-b447-3b7375b1e12d/RB-headshot-h.jpg Blog - Ending Forced Labor: An Opportunity to Advocate - Rebecca Ballard Rebecca moved to Washington, DC in 2007 to practice social justice law, and she has worked on sustainable fashion for over a decade. She founded The Fashion Connection to make connections advancing the U.S. sustainable fashion movement, and she advises companies, nonprofits, and individuals through Rebecca Ballard Advisory. Rebecca has lived in or visited all of the top 10 garment-producing countries in our world. https://www.thefashionconnection.org/events daily 0.75 2023-08-07 https://www.thefashionconnection.org/events/event-five-ljbjd monthly 0.5 2022-01-14 https://www.thefashionconnection.org/events/event-four-n334n monthly 0.5 2022-01-14 https://www.thefashionconnection.org/events/event-three-n9cly monthly 0.5 2022-01-14 https://www.thefashionconnection.org/events/event-two-dj939 monthly 0.5 2022-01-14 https://www.thefashionconnection.org/events/event-one-28wrm monthly 0.5 2023-08-07 https://www.thefashionconnection.org/home-old daily 0.75 2023-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/c0d8b0c3-a221-47be-a14e-787178a86b31/Fashion+Sale+%28Banner+%28Portrait%29%29+%281%29-min.jpg Home (old) - TFC’S COLLABORATIVE RESOURCE LIBRARY Tools for creating a sustainable business, curated & endorsed by leaders in the Sustainable Fashion industry. FABRICS & MATERIALS PACKAGING & SHIPMENT PRACTICES DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT See how you can contribute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1603750795443-VA6XRH3G3NVVYSZO6VF6/human+trafficking+and+fashion.jpg Home (old) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1602529926956-5VJJO47V6ON0RY71SIEL/Human+trafficking+and+fashion+issue+spotlight.jpg Home (old) - HUMAN TRAFFICKING & FASHION Learn more about the intersection between human trafficking and the fashion industry, as well as ways you can engage. TFC Platform members can also access our Guide for Communication and Engagement, created in partnership with the U.S.’s leaders in the anti-human trafficking movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1603751791224-30UAKD1QBTEHK3N6X3I5/the-fashion-connection-mission.jpg Home (old) - Our Platform is the U.S. online hub for making connections around sustainable fashion. We are the only place where you can connect with leaders across the U.S. sustainable fashion community and access a calendar of in person and virtual events across the U.S. Plus there are loads of great resources there as well as places to share your work and needs. Our Platform is free to join this year, don’t miss out on this great resource! https://www.thefashionconnection.org/privacy-policy daily 0.75 2020-10-07 https://www.thefashionconnection.org/learn-more daily 0.75 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1602875923317-AXIXYE11JLP1ABVF3VH4/force+labor+infographic.png Human Trafficking Guide - The textile and apparel industries are two of the largest worldwide, employing over 60 million people in nearly every region in the world. They are also two of the most problematic, with complicated and globalized supply chains that are highly competitive and immense downward pressure to continually deliver products more cheaply and quickly. Workers at every stage of garment production, from the harvesting of raw materials like cotton and silk, to the production and embellishment of final products, are highly vulnerable to the rapidly changing demands of the global market and predatory labor schemes such as debt bondage. A number of other factors further complicate the garment industry supply chain, including widespread use of migrant labor. Understanding and combating human trafficking within the fashion industry thus requires a multi-pronged approach that takes into account the globalized nature of the industry as well as the local and country-specific settings that currently allow such abuses to occur. Image source: Global Slavery Index https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/d0372faa-0725-4060-b7e5-cf4994928930/issues-in-slavery-and-fashion.jpg Human Trafficking Guide - The International Labor Organization estimates that 25 million people worldwide work in situations of forced labor. The Global Slavery Index found that, of the products imported into G20 countries, garments are the second most at risk category to have been produced by modern slavery, accounting for $127.7 billion worth of imports per year. 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Workers may be required to work 12-hour days six or seven days a week with no breaks and may be subject to sexual harassment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1602772196336-3IIVZXT1Y99VD5K12QJI/bonded-labor-in-india.jpg Country Profiles - “Sumangali” is the Tamil word for “happily married woman”, and involves the “apprenticing” of very young women to work for spinning mills under near-prison-like circumstances with long hours, poor working conditions, and almost no contact with the outside world. In return, the woman’s family receives a lump sum of money at the end of 3 or more years to go towards a dowry, which is a sizeable expense for poor families in the Indian context (and illegal under Indian law). 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Subcontracting is rampant, and labor may be shifted to smaller factories to reduce price or time without brands directly knowing that their products are made by irregular workers outside of contracted factories. Italy does not have a national minimum wage, and home workers may be paid as little as just one euro an hour for “luxury” garments which retail for above $1,000 USD. SOURCE: NY Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7dec899d882265ec348eac/1602773275594-XL1RIIGRHE4VXED75RHH/malaysia-migrant-workers.jpg Country Profiles - Enticed by the promise of good jobs with good wages, migrant workers from Bangladesh pay recruitment agents in their home country an average of $2,450 USD to work in Malaysia at TAL. These same workers then pay a second set of fees, which are TAL’s recruitment costs, upon arrival to Malaysia. 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