A Circular Fashion Party

Every season or every few months we crave new things, new outfits. It’s a natural behaviour of the fashion girl. Always seeking a new idea, something to be inspired by.

But that comes with a few associated problems: serious damage to our beautiful planet, and to our beautiful pockets. So how to make things better?

Let’s have a fashion party! I said, one where everybody wins.

The idea is simple. Our wardrobes are already filled up with beautiful goodies, but after a few wears, we grow tired of them. Too much social footage means our fashion creations have been seen too often. They then get put away in the closet, where they won’t come out for a good few months.

My rule of thumb is: if you haven’t worn it for over 6 months, then it needs to go. Give those beautiful items the chance to live a better life, in somebody else’s closet! And that is the premise of your event. Invite your closest friends, and their closest friends, to a fashion gathering where everybody brings their precious items for an exchange or a sale.

We hosted our very first Fashion Gathering last December, prior to the Christmas holidays, and it brought so much joy. Everybody brought a few pieces from their closet, and they were all of incredible taste and quality. I will never forget the face of one of my friends when skimming through one of the clothing rails she found a YSL trench coat for 100£, she was speechless and so happy to have found that gem before anybody else. Needless to say, it was an instant buy.

And it was precisely for moments like that, for the laughter, for the actual connection through something we love and enjoy, that I decided I would do this on a regular basis.

An opportunity to meet likeminded people, and go home with a fabulous new item. Nothing brand new with a tag, but something rather special, repurposed. Something that will remind you a gathering, and make you feel special every time you wear it as a result. You can’t find that in a store, it’s only yours.

Below some photos of our latest gathering, which runs on a quarterly basis. Interested in coming to the next one? These gatherings are quarterly, intimate, and always full of surprises. Check out our gatherings page for upcoming dates, and start digging out those six-month-unworn gems now!

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Circular Fashion Ecosystem

Source: Vogue Business

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Seems pretty simple, right? Let’s make it happen. If there is something that has set in my head as I devote myself to fashion day after day is that it can’t continue the way it is. Not from a consumer point of view and even less so from a business point of view.

Every day that goes by, climate change worsens. Our beautiful Earth is sick and drastic measures need to be put in place to improve this situation. The fashion industry is responsible for around 5% of all manmade greenhouse gas emissions, and that percentage is set to grow, so what can we do to tackle this massive problem?

REDUCE your consumption of clothes - Let’s go back to the good all days of slow fashion. What was so wrong about that? We’ve got into the habit of the “I want everything and I want it right now” but the reality is that our planet suffers big time from that behaviour. I love fashion, and if you love it as much as you do you will still want to play with your outfits, but perhaps it is worth investing in better garments that will last us longer than buying cheap quality (mostly synthetic fabric) outfits that will not only last very little but you will get tired of very quickly?

REUSE clothing that needs some loving - Instead of buying a new piece of clothing, why not renting it or buying second hand/ vintage? There’s vast amounts of clothing that is donated to charity shops and second hand stores and these are in fabulous condition. I guarantee you that you’ll find every single trend in one of these places and is certainly fun to think you are going back in time by putting somebody’s old clothes as brand new into your wardrobe. What’s the big deal about it? Not to mention that these garments are usually better quality fabric than those that you buy brand new and at a higher price. Think twice on your next purchase! And if you need some recommendations, we are big fans of Vestiaire Collective and our beloved Thanks God I’m a VIP second hand store for all things luxe and vintage and HURR for clothing rental.

RECYCLE those clothes that you no longer love - I am sure as a good fashion lover you will have many things that you either don’t love anymore or want to get rid of in favour of the latest trend. Whilst that is totally OK, be wise in how to dispose of your clothes. First of all, can you pass them on to somebody else? They would probably give it as much love as you did and it’s a great way of recycling and reusing clothes again. If that is not available to you, then of course looking for charity shops or clothing banks to dispose of these would be your best option. Some garments will be more difficult to recycle than others (the biggest problem of this whole process, types of fabric!) but nevertheless worth it.

Change is difficult, but together, we can make great things happen.

This gorj hand bag and skirt are both second hand from a charity shop down the road and i love them.