Why We Need a Fashion Revolution
Fashion Revolution Week is an annual event that commemorates the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, almost a decade ago on April 24th 2013. This preventable tragedy killed and injured thousands of garment workers, mostly young women and remains one of the world's worst industrial accidents.
This week Yogi Peace Club joins the Fashion Revolution movement, to raise awareness around the social and environmental impacts of the fashion industry and to encourage people to demand greater transparency and sustainability in the way clothes and products are made. We seek to empower consumers to become more conscious of their purchasing habits.
Fashion Revolution Week is important to us for several reasons. Firstly, it draws attention to the human and environmental impact of the fast fashion industry. Fast fashion is a term used to describe the practice of producing and selling cheap, trendy clothing and product at a rapid pace. This model has resulted in exploitative working conditions for product workers, environmental damage, and a throwaway culture of overconsumption. At Yogi Peace Club, we are not mass produced. We are slow made in small quantities.
Established in 2014, Yogi Peace Club is a heart-led women based team with a passion for the environment and yoga. We have a strong, long standing, transparent and trusted working relationship with all of our vendors. Yogi Peace Club works with ethically accredited factories and vendors in China, for the sourcing and production of our Yoga Mats. We have Control Union Certification and Global Standard Certification.
All Yogi Peace Club Yoga mats are made 100% tree rubber and recycled post consumer PET plastic and free from heavy metals, toxic glue, latex, silicon and phthalates. We seek to educate our growing audience on why PVC is so bad. Read our Yoga Journal here.
We express sincere gratitude to our product developers for bringing our YPC collections to life, always ensuring they are of highest quality and made with love. Here are some photos of the staff we work with from our Yoga Mat suppliers.
Secondly, Fashion Revolution Week highlights that consumers often have little information about where and how their clothes are made. This lack of transparency can lead to unethical practices. Fashion Revolution Week encourages fashion brands to be more open about their supply chains and manufacturing processes taking responsibility for the impact their products have on people and the planet.
Yogi Peace Club works with ethically accredited factories in China and Australia to produce our Yoga garments. Our cotton is certified organically sourced and Ethically made from 100% WRAP Certified, Better Cotton Initiative Cotton.
Our printed Yoga garments are made from Post Consumer Recycled Plastic 78% Recycled Plastic Polyester 28% Spandex 265 gsm that is woven into polyester yarn, spun with spandex to ensure the garments are premium quality. We have Control Union Certification and Global Standard Certifications from these partners. Our production arrives via sea freight in compostable bags, as we support slow and sustainable in all aspects of our business.
Thirdly, Fashion Revolution Week empowers consumers to make more informed and responsible purchasing decisions. By promoting the message of "Who made my clothes?", the week encourages consumers to consider the people behind their clothing and to choose brands that prioritise sustainability and ethics.
We express sincere gratitude to our garment makers for bringing our YPC collections to life. We see you. We honour you. We thank you.
Finally, Yogi Peace Club, seeks to educate, via our website and Yoga Journal, ways to care for and clean your yoga mat, to promote mat life-cycle and longevity. We inform our Yogis on ways to repurpose and upcycle their Yogi Peace Club Yoga Mat. These solutions give a longer life to our Yoga Mats, with the aim to keep them out of landfill. Yogi Peace Club continuously supports, seeks out and implements sustainable solutions. We are always learning, improving and educating ourselves on ways to minimise our footprint. Read how to repurpose our Yogi Peace Club Yoga Mat here:
This Fashion Revolution Week Yogi Peace Club demonstrates that our brand is committed to ethical and sustainable practices within our supply chain to encourage fair and safe working conditions, gender equality and environmental sustainability throughout the entire process of production. Join the Movement here, to sign the manifesto here
To learn more about our clothing please read how we source our yoga clothing and yoga mats by clicking the links.
