The Conscious Fashion Campaign orchestrated the placement of 10 women-led honoree organizations (including the likes of Fashion Revolution, Remake, Fabscrap, Custom Collaborative and more) in a series of billboards and campaigns throughout the city.
Women get just 25 percent of the news features men get, according to The Global Media Monitoring Project’s sixth research study, and as the Conscious Fashion Campaign enters March, which is Women’s History Month, the organization finds it all the more important to grab the spotlight back.
“With Free as a Human, I started it during a time when I had a personal service project donating new underwear to female survivors of human trafficking,” she said. “At the time, I had seen how a lot of donations of used clothing taken to shelters for underprivileged girls had always neglected underwear.
To her, this means, “We remain considerate of how we treat the people who make our clothes; we show commitment to circularity and reusing resources; we put economic equality at the forefront of our supply chain; we remain accountable for our role in promoting racial justice rather than tokenism within the fashion industry; we afford equal opportunities to members of all genders regardless of sexual orientation and make a commitment to take actions that breath life into our environment, leaving...
“It was extremely motivating to see the vision and mission getting recognition,” Bahuguna said. “The years of incubating a fashion business with semi-skilled herder-artisans of a raw material economy has been satisfying but challenging. To build an institution with all the rural members as owners, guide them in best management practices along with striving for international market level manufacturing standards needs a team of believers, advisers, supporters and cheerleaders.
The Conscious Fashion Campaign took over New York City, and the women entrepreneurs are still having their moment.Mariama Camara, founder and chief executive officer of Mariama Fashion Production, feels similarly.
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