Öko-faire Kleidung 16 July 2020 Seal overview at a glance: Our new flyer is here Shopping and supporting fair working conditions for textile producers and the environment is easy. The new edition of our flyer ‘Eyes on when buying clothes’ shows which seals stand for fair conditions in textile production. Read more …
Öko-faire Kleidung 28 May 2020 Clothing is a climate killer More and more and cheaper. This trend has been followed by the global apparel industry for years. Fast fashion not only leads to precarious working conditions in the producing countries, but also causes massive environmental and climate damage. The fashion industry therefore plays a significant role in the fight against climate change. Read more …
Öko-faire Kleidung 26 July 2019 FEMNET supports Öko-Test in the evaluation of women's jeans Öko-Test has tested 21 jeans for residues in the laboratory. But Öko-Test also wanted to know more about the production conditions under which the jeans are manufactured and therefore asked FEMNET for advice on the development of the questionnaire to the companies and the evaluation of the answers. Read more …
Öko-faire Kleidung 21 April 2017 New Fair Fashion Guide: All backgrounds on sustainable fashion and how it is made eco-fair Bonn. Sustainable fashion is attractive. This proves the Fair fashion guide (PDF file), which will be published on 22.4.2017, shortly before the day of remembrance of Rana Plaza. In the factory collapse in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013, more than 1,100 textile workers died and 2,000 were severely injured. "The Fair Fashion Guide is a plea for the wardrobe of the future and wants to encourage fashion to live with a clear conscience. With interviews, fashion routes and tips for restyle, in a visual language familiar to the young target group from magazines without using them without criticism," says Friederike von Wedel, editor-in-chief. On 34 pages, professional models show fair fashion, which was produced under human rights responsible conditions. There are also tips for sustainable consumption: from clothing care to sharing and swapping to up-cycling. Read more …
Öko-faire Kleidung 22 September 2016 “BUY GOOD STUFF Fair Fashion Shopping Guide Köln” presented to the public at the Fair Trade Night Under the patronage of the Mayor of Cologne, Ms Henriette Reker, the BUY GOOD STUFF Fair Fashion Shopping Guide Cologne was launched on 22 September 2016! FEMNET e.V. and AMD Akademie Mode & Design, Department of Design at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, jointly published the first Fair Fashion Guide for Cologne. Sustainability and conscious consumption - the lifestyle with ecologically sustainable and socially fair products has long since arrived in fashion. Not only the well-known Cologne-based labels ARMEDANGELS and LANIUS demonstrate how it works. BUY GOOD STUFF, the first eco-fair shopping guide for fashion in Cologne, proves that not only the Green Concept Stores, but also numerous fashion shops, offer attractive fashion in many quarters of the shopping metropolis on the Rhine, which is at the same time socially fair and ecologically sustainable produced - for every taste and budget. The green lifestyle conquers the fashion stores and proves: Fashion is not only beautiful, but can also be responsible! Download the guide as PDF file Read more …
Öko-faire Kleidung 30 October 2015 Fair workwear for local authorities stand at A+A Panel discussion at the A+A with FEMNET CEO Gisela Burckhardt. Photo:© FEMNET e.V.More than 65,000 visitors came from the 27th. – 30.10.2015 to the world's largest conference on occupational health and safety in Düsseldorf to gather information from 1,887 exhibitors from 57 countries on trends in occupational health and safety, occupational health promotion and safety management. Fairly produced protective clothing was exhibited by a total of 9 manufacturers and retailers and presented vividly at the booth of Engagement Global, Eine Welt Netz, FEMNET e.V., CIR and SKEW as ‘Fair Fashion Performance’. In addition, a comprehensive specialist forum and information programme at the aforementioned stand informed about fair workwear and production methods and brought experts and actors from organisations into dialogue with decision-makers and employees of municipal contracting authorities and companies.
Öko-faire Kleidung 23 April 2015 1. BOYS DAY at FEMNET about Fair Clothing This year, FEMNET took part in Boys Day for the first time. An exciting experience for us as a women's organization as well as for two boys (Joshua, 13, and Ingmar, 14 years old) from two Bonn schools. The organizers of the Girls and Boys Day had chosen the date perfectly: On the occasion of the anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, FEMNET organised the ‘RanaPlaza Payup Now’ protest campaign, a great opportunity for students to experience campaign work up close. Read more …
Öko-faire Kleidung 07 August 2013 Literature tip: The road to sustainable clothing - standards, seals and political framework conditions. This report, which was commissioned by the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90/Die Grünen by Katharina Schaus in the summer of 2013, focuses on standards, seals and political framework conditions of the globalised textile industry. The overview included in this report includes 52 textile labels that provide incentives for sustainable development and have a health or environmental and socially acceptable orientation. Based on the collected basic information on all labels, a selection was made for which an exemplary analysis (assessment) was prepared according to predetermined parameters such as transparency, positioning, classification and their underlying requirements (criteria), quality, resources, implementation, social compatibility, etc. In addition to a look at problem factors in the textile industry along the value chain, a look at the market situation of sustainable clothing is also the content of this report. At the end of the report, recommendations for action resulting from the findings and relevant topics for representatives of politics are summarized. Download the report (PDF file)
