RE:Fashion Awards winners announced at glamorous night of celebs and celebration

RE:Manufacturing Award -  celebrating the unsung heroes of fashion manufacture, the ones who implement responsible and progressive practises.

WINNER: Mantis/Sunflag

Supplying organic and conventional clothes to brands who want to source ethically and transparently, this manufacturer works in Tanzania where their 2000-worker factory has become a model for large scale, ethical production in Africa.

Paramo/Miquelina
An outdoor-wear company producing garments in collaboration with The Miquelina Foundation which offers destitute women in Columbia sustainable employment, literacy opportunities and child care facilities for a better life.
Paramo.co.uk

UniqueEco
Providing a creative solution to the man-made problem of discarded flip-flops, and other unwanted items, washed up on developing country seas.  UniqueEco help build sustainable community businesses to make and sell unique, recycled items and educate on eco-systems and the effect of waste.
Uniqueco-designs.com

RE:Consumer Awareness Award, sponsored by The Body Shop

WINNER: Marie Claire
With their ‘Fashion With Heart’ strap-line, Marie Claire is proud to highlight labels and designers that offer an ethical edge to environmental or people-practises. The magazine is also renowned for its 20-year history of investigative journalism into world and womens’ issues. Read Marie Claire’s report on the win here.

People Tree
Safia Minney, founder of People Tree, has been pushing the importance of social and environmental justice and practices into the people’s awareness since the early 1990s and she is thrilled to be up for three awards. Spokesman Antony Waller says: “It’s so exciting to see the emergence of  an awards ceremony dedicated to ethical fashion and the glittering judging panel shows just how seriously this sector is being taken. It would be quite an honour to be recognized by the panel so we have everything crossed for the evening.”
Peopletree.co.uk

War on Want
Campaigning to change the structures of society that create poverty and keep people poor, War on Want challenges corporations, governments and laws that cause injustice and global poverty.
Waronwant.org

RE:Cotton Award – celebrating organisations who have taken big steps in improving practises in cotton production.

Commended: Pants to Poverty
From the back of a Nelson Mandela speech, this group of pants and organic cotton lovers was born. Standing up against conventional cotton, Pants to Poverty believe in wearing a fabric that’s kind to people that make it, the environment and the wearer.
www.pantstopoverty.com

Commended: Tesco
Various initiatives set up by this supermarket giant to promote more ethical practises; including school uniforms made from plastic bottles (apparently 6 x 1litre bottles make a skirt and 17 bottles make a boy’s fleece), fair trade and organic cotton kids’ clothes and a ‘buy one, give one free’ initiative, which donates a trousers or skirt to a Kenyan child for each one bought in the UK.
Tesco.com/greenerliving

RE:Africa Award, sponsored by 1927 Limited, recognising outstanding practises for bringing about change to people or environment in Africa.
WINNER: Made
Fashionable accessories are made by communities in impoverished parts of East Africa. Training, investment and support are given to allow people to trade their way out of poverty. Made has also breathed life into ethical jewellery on the high street, working with Topshop, Whistles and Nicole Farhi.
Made.uk.com

Soul of Africa
Through sustainable projects making hand-stitched shoes, Soul of Africa creates employment opportunities for orphans affected by AIDS. The shoes are stocked internationally including Clarks and Jones Bootmaker here in UK.
Soulofafrica.org.za

Stella Atal
An African artist who has put African fashion on the map through her designs, colours and prints. She is also famed for her wall hangings and textiles that celebrate the colour and traditions of African life.
Greatafricanart.co.uk

RE:Environment Award, sponsored by Ecologist, for designers or labels who have pioneered practises to minimise their impact on the environment.

WINNER: Veja
Funky trainers made from organic cotton produced fairly by Brazilian farmers and latex from Hevea trees (wild latex trees), providing a fight against deforestation. Ecological leather recently launched to tackle the problem of rivers polluted by the metals used in conventional leather production.
Veja.fr

Marie Sar Agencies

The Hemp Trading Company (THTC)
Hailing hemp as an all-round eco-champion, this wonder crop is loved by THTC because of it can be made sustainably into fabric, fuel, plastic and paper. THTC clothes, made from organic hemp and cotton blends are inspired and supported by local urban and music scenes – not a hemp sack in sight.
www.thtc.co.uk/

RE:People Award, sponsored by Craig Cohon and CIWEM, for businesses who have changed the lives of people through their supply change and have the potential to achieve more.

WINNER: Pachacuti
After seeing firsthand the injustice in textile production in South America, where the middleman received all the profits, Pachacuti was set up to create stylish clothes while respecting the skills and livelihoods of the Andean producers.
Pachacuti.co.uk/

People Tree
Working in 15 countries and over 50 fair trade groups, People Tree are all about helping to alleviate poverty and minimising environmental impact.
www.peopletree.co.uk

Benedicta Nanyonga
The Kinawataka Women’s Initiative was set up to take unwanted straws from the local Coca-Cola factory and other materials, to make hand-woven floor mats, bags, jewellery, and much more. This provides essential employment and opportunities for disadvantaged women in Uganda.

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