Thoughts, essays and blog posts about things that matter to me.
After posting polls and questions onto my Instagram I got a good understanding of what all your thoughts are on fashion. So I want to chat about them! One of my first questions was how often do you guys shop? I got quite a few responses, 7 of you said once a week, 16 of […]
MoreOttway The Label is a fashion brand that I found a year ago, and started buying from this year. They are a slow fashion brand that supports ethical procedures and are local’s, coming out of Melbourne AUS. I own two of their Rarebird jackets, but it was this brand that opened my eyes to the […]
MoreSwapping wasteful to reusable in a way that all people can adapt too. One use items are being used more and more lately and this may be because of the global pandemic that we have found ourselves in. Cafe’s aren’t tending to take reusable cups, and the blue face masks are a daily necessity. So […]
MoreShort Project Summary. My digital artefact is an online webpage that has articles that discuss fast fashion, the problems and outcomes of it. I was inspired to create a platform about sustainability as it allowed me to bring both my majors together. As I am doing a double degree, I am also doing two majors, […]
MoreRight as I’m about to hand in my DA the ethical fashion report for 2021 got dropped, a perfect way to close l.w.S- the sustainable. What is the ethical Fashion report? The fashion report is a large PDF that can be sent to your inbox for free, tabbing through it I can quickly grasp the […]
MoreOver the past couple of months I have been writing blog posts and doing research to create L.W.S – the sustainable. As introduced in my pitch and first reflection post I identified the image that I wanted to portray, creating a page that is the “one stop shop” for all questions and queries about sustainable […]
MoreOver the past 10 weeks of writing my mini magazine, Live With Soul- the sustainable my original idea changed to better suit both the time frame and its market. The original planning process was mapped out on scribbled bits of paper developing from scrawl in the back of books to drafted blog posts. But the […]
MoreTikToK hauls are promoting and ESCALATING fast fashion to levels that haven’t been seen before. We no longer live in the age of timeless fashion, rather one-wear-wonders. Fast fashion, we’ve all heard of it. I’ll be honest I’m no saint either, just check out my jacket collection and you’ll see that I love to shop […]
MoreAfter being tasked with a DA first week of semester 2 I was lost. Unsure of what a digital artifact was, and what the limits/boundaries for the idea were. The brain storming process was one of little ideas, trying to combine my skill set with my interests reminded me of when I was asked about […]
MoreHere’s whats hiding behind the price tag of Shein. The future of fast fashion arrives in a package at our doorstep, weekly, fortnightly or monthly depending on how often you scroll to find a new fit. But in the later 2010’s the online shopping mega, known commonly by teens and pre-teens is Shein. A Chinese […]
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