All guides

Every guide and essay in the magazine, grouped by section. Each one is sourced, with links to the original reports and laws at the end.

Wardrobe

Buying less and better, second-hand and vintage, and getting more wear from the clothes you already own.

  1. A guide to better fashion habits: twelve routines that make clothes lastWash cooler, dry flat, store well, mend early: twelve routines that add years.
  2. How to shop less without feeling deprived: a practical methodAudit, find the real gaps, slow the impulse, and buy fewer, better pieces.
  3. Sustainable in the city: a field guide to repairing, swapping and buying second-hand where you liveMarkets, swaps, repair cafés, tailors and cobblers: the city as a circular wardrobe.
  4. The stylist's guide to sustainable shopping for maximalistsColour, pattern and drama, sourced second-hand, rented, swapped and styled to last.
  5. The unexpected story behind this bag: upcycled, deadstock and second-hand bags and accessoriesUpcycled, deadstock or second-hand: how to judge, repair and resell bags and accessories.
  6. Your messy closet is costing you money: how to organise a wardrobe you actually useDuplicates, damage and forgotten pieces: how to edit and organise a closet you wear.

Care & repair

Washing, stain removal, alternatives to solvent dry cleaning, mending and upcycling: the skills that make clothes last.

  1. Furnishing a rental the circular way: second-hand, repair and what to leave behind when you moveSecond-hand furniture, repairs, curtains and linens, and a move-out plan that keeps your deposit.
  2. How to break up with your dry cleaner: perc, wet cleaning and caring for clothes at homeWhy perc is being phased out, what wet cleaning is, and how to wash 'dry clean only' at home.
  3. The art of stain removal: a method for every kind of stainProtein, tannin, grease, dye: identify the stain family, then treat it the right way.
  4. What is upcycled fashion? Definitions, techniques and how to judge itUpcycling versus recycling, deadstock and offcuts, techniques, and projects to try.

Materials & footprint

What clothes are made of, what making them costs in water, carbon and waste, and what better materials really mean.

  1. A swimwear revolution is well underway: ghost nets, recycled nylon and the next problems to solveFrom ghost nets to recycled nylon: what has changed, and what still has to.
  2. How does the fashion industry waste water? From cotton fields to dye houses to your washing machineThirsty crops, polluting dye houses, microfibres in the wash, and what actually helps.
  3. Let's talk about sustainable swimwear: materials, fit and care that make a swimsuit lastRecycled fibres, durable fit, and the care routine that doubles a swimsuit's life.
  4. What does it take to create a sustainable gown for the Oscars? Red-carpet and couture practice explainedArchive pieces, deadstock silk, careful embellishment and a planned afterlife.
  5. What is sustainable fashion? A clear definition, and what it asks of youThe problems it tries to fix, the circular idea behind it, and where your own wardrobe fits in.
  6. Why ethical and sustainable jewelry matters: gold, gems and what to ask before you buyMercury, conflict minerals, recycled gold, lab-grown stones and the questions to ask.

People & power

Garment workers' and models' rights, representation in the ethical-fashion movement, and the rules changing the industry.

  1. Does ethical fashion have a white savior complex? Power and representation in the movementWho speaks, who decides and who benefits: an essay on power in ethical fashion.
  2. Does sustainable fashion need a reboot? From green products to fewer, fairer clothesA decade of 'eco' collections has not shrunk the footprint. What would?
  3. The Women Series: the work that keeps clothes in useTailor, mender, dyer, sorter, organiser: profiles of the work behind circular fashion.
  4. The best of NYFW and other fashion weeks: what sustainable progress to watch forRunway sustainability beyond the press release: materials, sets, models and standards.
  5. The personal is political: a history of the fight for garment workers' rightsRana Plaza, the Accord, SB 62 and due diligence: why clothes are a labour issue.
  6. What is an ethical modeling agency? Models' labour rights and the questions to askDebt, late pay, harassment and digital replicas: models' rights and what good agencies do.