The Fashion Act

The Fashion Act

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New York’s proposed Fashion Act is a piece of legislation which if passed, would demand all major global brands selling in New York State (that’s most of them) to provide publicly available information about their supply chains, how they treat their workers and the planet. This information would then be used to set science based targets for climate action and to measurably improve the lives of garment workers who make their clothes.

Collective Fashion Justice has officially endorsed the Act, as it is vitally important to progress for a total ethics fashion future. But we also think it ...

New York’s proposed Fashion Act is a piece of legislation which if passed, would demand all major global brands selling in New York State (that’s most of them) to provide publicly available information about their supply chains, how they treat their workers and the planet. This information would then be used to set science based targets for climate action and to measurably improve the lives of garment workers who make their clothes.

Collective Fashion Justice has officially endorsed the Act, as it is vitally important to progress for a total ethics fashion future. But we also think it could be better. The current Act does not address fashion's immense exploitation of animals or destruction of biodiversity. This needs to change, and you can help make it happen.

 

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Email your local NYS representative

If you live in the state of New York, your voice is particularly powerful in calling for amendmants to the Fashion Act, given it is New York legislation. 

Let your local New York State representatives (your state senator and your assembly member) know that animals and biodiversity should also be included in the Fashion Act.

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Please personalise your email and include (some or all) of the points below, after letting your representatives know that they do indeed represent you:

- The current version of New York's Fashion Act is extremely important for the progression of the fashion industry, and you are grateful that it exists for people and the climate.

- As someone interested in creating a more responsible fashion industry, you would like to see Collective Fashion Justice's proposed additions to the Act included, addressing fashion's exploitation of animals and biodiversity.

- The Fashion Act has a unique opportunity to both change the fashion industry itself and act as a blueprint for future legislation. For it to be its best, it must reflect a total ethics fashion system which recognises that we cannot protect people, animals and the planet unless we do so holistically, with these groups and their wellbeing inherently interlinked.  

- The tracing of animal-derived materials to tier four should be required of brands, with tracing and risk assessment at these sites addressing the most publicly opposed cruel practices in fashion, such as force-feeding and live-plucking of ducks in down supply chains, mulesing of lambs for wool, branding and dehorning without pain relief for leather, other painful mutilative procedures in these supply chains without pain relief (tail docking, castration), and cage confinement of animals (in fur and exotic skin supply chains). Assessment of risks should include steps to move beyond them. 

- Environmental disclosures should always include tier four where major biodiversity destruction occurs, assessing risks relating to deforestation, land degradation, habitat destruction and wildlife endangerment through these and pollution. We cannot maintain carbon tunnel vision if we are to address the ecological crises fashion contributes to. 

- Please support the Fashion Act, while pushing for these additions to be made, to ensure the Bill is its strongest and most holistic, as we cannot protect people, animals or the planet in isolation. 

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