Kim van der WeerdFashion’s Sustainability Woes: Intention, Inequity, and the Implicit Beliefs Blocking Systemic…Unexpected Lessons from Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Anti-Racist”Mar 5Mar 5
Kim van der WeerdinJUST FASHIONWe Need to Stop Citing Long, Complex, Supply Chains as a Reason for Fashion’s Sustainability WoesThe reason brands and retailers don’t know who their suppliers are (or what their impact might be) is because they don’t have a vested…Nov 4, 2021Nov 4, 2021
Kim van der WeerdinJUST FASHIONThe Bangladesh Accord is the Wrong Model for Legal Accountability in the Fashion IndustryLegal accountability should be about pushing brands to have more skin in the game and ensuring a distribution of financial risk that’s…Aug 26, 20211Aug 26, 20211
Kim van der WeerdinJUST FASHIONSustainable Fashion: Three Things Advocates of More Ethical Purchasing Practices Should Stop SayingAs a former garment factory manager, these are my pet peeves when it comes to advocating for more ethical purchasing practices.Feb 22, 2021Feb 22, 2021
Kim van der WeerdinJUST FASHIONSustainable Fashion: An Alternative Interpretation of Due DiligenceAs a garment factory manager, I hated being audited for due diligence. Here’s what I wish social compliance auditors had asked me about inFeb 3, 2021Feb 3, 2021
Kim van der WeerdinJUST FASHIONMaking Fashion More Just: Why Isolating Labor Costs is Not the Key to Higher WagesFactory costs are driven by deviations from forecast. And it’s the fact that suppliers disproportionately bear the financial risk for…Dec 17, 2020Dec 17, 2020
Kim van der WeerdinJUST FASHIONWhy Shared Financial Risk is the Key to Radically Transforming the Fashion IndustryThe litmus test for knowing whether an intervention fundamentally transforms the incentives is simple: will it systematically guarantee…Dec 8, 20201Dec 8, 20201
Kim van der WeerdinJUST FASHIONOn Protecting the Rights of Workers in Subcontracted Factories: How Sustainable Fashion Advocates…Oversight won’t change the fact that the fashion industry (as it exists today) needs a workforce capable of cheaply expanding and…Oct 27, 2020Oct 27, 2020
Kim van der WeerdinJUST FASHIONEthical Fashion: How Singular Narratives of Worker-Management Relations Fail UsIf we’re serious about making the fashion industry more just, we must stop relying on a one-size-fits all explanation for why…Oct 7, 20201Oct 7, 20201
Kim van der WeerdinJUST FASHIONTAL Apparel & Sustainable Fashion’s Language Problem Part 2The tone of a recent New York Times report implicating apparel manufacturer TAL Apparel in alleged forced labor is inadvertently…Sep 12, 2020Sep 12, 2020
