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High-end fashion from Africa can gain a competitive advantage by continuing to enhance its sustainability credentials, says Helen Jennings.

Someone who knows how to recognize and appreciate beautiful fashion products, made in a sustainable way, is Simone Cipriani.

Je définirai la mode éthique comme responsable, l’importance de ce mouvement est de savoir comment est réalisé le produit. Selon moi, c’est l’avenir de la mode.

Ce programme, mis en place par Simone Cipriani, réussit le tour de force de promouvoir à la fois les microproducteurs, le travail féminin et le commerce éthique.

ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative champions – with good practice, quality fabrics and materials that are environmentally friendly

Simone Cipriani, the master force behind the Beat of Africa project

Depuis son lancement, il y a cinq ans, 90 % de ses sept mille bénéficiaires affirment que leur revenus ont permis une amélioration de leur lieu de vie ; 74,4 % ont pu économiser pour la première fois de leur vie ; et 83 % des femmes impliquées envoient désormais leurs enfants à l’école.

The story of the EFI is one that proves ethics and luxury can go hand in hand.

Offered assistance for women’s economic independence

Aims to highlight, celebrate and acknowledge community groups of micro-artisans

Great things are happening with United Nations’ ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative. British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood teamed up with the organisation to create a collection of handbags and now eyewear designer Karen Walker has joined the initiative.

Acting locally and thinking globally, everything about the Ethical Fashion Initiative makes sense

ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative to create work in community groups of micro-artisans

EFI utilizes the power of fashion & style as a vehicle out of poverty.

The benefits of the initiative are quantifiable with social impact assessments showing increased food, improved housing conditions, the ability to send children to school and pay for medical supplies as direct results of the project.

Ethical Fashion Initiative, a United Nations initiative aimed at changing the way the international fashion business works.

Silvia Venturini Fendi, co-designer with Karl Lagerfeld at the Roman luxury leather-goods company and president of the Italian fashion organization AltaRomAltaModa, says a societal shift is expressing itself in clothing.

FLORENCE — Toys for boys are traditionally of the two- or four-wheeled kind. So it was no wonder that motorbikes at artistic angles and steely, streamlined cars driven into display areas formed the backdrop for the Pitti Uomo exhibition last week.

“Fashion can be responsible. . . .We work with people to transform local resources to beautiful fashion products,”

The EFI imposes a strict code of ethics, including decent wages and safe conditions for 7000 workers

GRACE NDUTA has never ventured far from Korogocho, the Nairobi slum where she lives. But her handiwork has. Bags she helped make were slung over the skinny shoulders of fashion models as they strutted the catwalks of Paris Fashion Week earlier this month.

The champion of ethical fashion is head of a committee appointed by the UN and the WTO to eliminate waste and promote sustainability.