7 Bold Ideas to Fix Fashion And Create a More Ethical Industry After Covid

by Admin | Jan 16, 2021 | #PayUp, Seven Actions

Without garment workers, there is no fashion — yet the fashion industry abandoned these 70 million workers during the coronavirus pandemic. They died on the job from Covid-19 while making face masks. They went hungry [PDF] as brands refused to pay them for $40 billion...

[Treehugger] A Movement Called PayUp Fashion Urges Brands to Protect, Not Exploit, Their Vulnerable Essential Workers

by Admin | Jan 16, 2021 | #PayUp, #ShareYourProfits, Seven Actions

Treehugger.com features PayUpFashion and our road map for change: Last March, a catastrophe hit Asia’s garment-producing countries. Major fashion brands canceled orders worth more than $40 billion, citing COVID-induced store closures and a severely weakened...

PayUp Fashion’s Ayesha Barenblat Talks to Eco-Age on the Seven Actions Holding Fast Fashion Accountable

by Editor | Nov 11, 2020 | #PayUp, Press

Eco-Age.com Magazine interviews PayUp Fashion coalition member and Remake founder Ayesha Barenblat about the #PayUp campaign and our Seven Action. Writer Julie O’Driscoll writes, “When the pandemic hit and fast fashion factories shut down, thousands of...

Fashion’s $16 Billion Debt To Garment Workers Should Spark Reform, Not Sympathy

by Editor | Oct 13, 2020 | #PayUp, Seven Actions

This story originally appeared on Forbes.com and is authored by Elizabeth L. Cline. It appears on PayUp Fashion.com with the author’s permission. While we were tending to our sourdough starters and settling into our sweatpants during the pandemic, one of the...

[Eco Warrior Princess] #PayUp Pressure Pays Off: Brands Commit to Paying Billions to Garment Factories

by Editor | Oct 2, 2020 | #PayUp, Press

Eco Warrior Princess covers the devastating decision made by global apparel brands to cancel orders and refuse payment to their garment factories for completed goods worth $40 billion at the start of the pandemic. Currently, at the time of writing, 19 brands on the...

[Fashion United] PayUp Fashion Initiative Launches to Secure Industry’s Future

by Editor | Sep 22, 2020 | #PayUp, Press

Fashion United’s Simone Preuss covered the launch of the PayUp Fashion initiative, writing “In March of this year, US-based NGO Remake together with partnering organisation and labour activist and founder of the AWAJ Foundation, Nazma Akter, launched...