How to Be a Good Ally All Year Round… Not Just During Pride Month
Pride Month is here, which means it’s time to pop open a bottle of champagne, buy something with a rainbow on it…
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Are Buy Now, Pay Later Services a Friend or Foe to the Ethical Fashion Industry?
Afterpay is having its day in the fashion industry, but are buy now, pay later services fuelling mindful or mindless purchases?
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Meet the Patternmaker Behind the Peppermint Paddington Top
Start your (sewing machine) engines, our latest free pattern, the Peppermint Paddington Top, has landed! It’s a bold blouse pattern with puff sleeves that bring the drama, mama, to any outfit. This exclusive, highly wearable pattern was created for us in collaboration with the lovely South African patternmaker French Navy Patterns and is brought to…
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Business (Not) as Usual: The Aussie Brand Fighting Fast Fashion to Tailor A Better World
How often have you had a garment tailored? Your wedding dress, maybe? A fancy suit for work? Unfortunately it’s not the norm when it comes to the everyday person – perhaps strangely when you consider that fit guidelines vary from brand to brand – and clothes that arrive without fitting properly often lurk at the…
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One Dress, Five Ways – How to #WearTheChange by Making Your Wardrobe Go the Distance
How many times have you stood staring at an overflowing closet, lamenting the fact you had absolutely nothing to wear?! It’s a sad reality that the average woman only wears 20% of her wardrobe – the horror of being labelled an “outfit repeater” often leading to wear-it-once purchases that then stay hidden, collecting dust till…
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Natural Dyeing Tips for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
Part experiment, part craft activity, the magical process of natural dyeing is a fun way to freshen up old wardrobe faves and reconnect with nature in the process. The brainchild of Katie Wilkins, Studio Tinta is a natural dye studio creating sustainable textiles using botanical dyes and natural fibres. With a range of made-to-order silk…
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Hip Hip Hooray! Our Bumper 50th Issue Is Out and It’s the Biggest One Yet
“You’ve always said that you hope one day there’ll be no need for Peppermint anymore – when fashion just ‘is’ ethical and sustainable by default, the climate fight has been won, and the planet and all people are thriving and living in harmony with each other. So, yeah, about that… we’ve still got a lot…
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Best of the Month: What the Peppermint Team Is Loving and Living For This May
It’s time for another edition of The Monthly Mint – a chance for you to join in the Peppermint office chat about all the things we’re loving and living for each month. Here at Peppermint we’re forever on the hunt for the best in sustainable reads, eats and wears to inspire you all. But have you…
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All Kilns Glazing: Meet the Local Pottery Brand Fighting for the Planet
After bursting onto the reusables scene with their planet-friendly, portable pottery adorned with eye-catching glazes, artist Clare Botfield and second-generation potter Renton Bishopric, of Pottery For The Planet, are harnessing the power of the sun to continue the fight to save the climate. We caught up with Renton for our bumper 50th issue to learn…
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“Every Garment Counts”: Why The Fashion Advocate Made the Decision to Stop Stocking Polyester
When I launched The Fashion Advocate in 2014, I was convinced I could change the world. I was sitting front row at A.F. Vandevorst…
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Just Keep Growing – How to Make Your Very Own DIY Fabric Planters
We’re not the first to sing the praises of plants, nor the benefits of getting crafty with your hands, but hear this stitchy pals: sewing up cosy, colourful fabric homes for your houseplants might just be the best of both worlds! Not only are these DIY fabric planters quick and easy to sew, they’re reversible,…
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Business (Not) as Usual: This Coffee Company Is Changing the Game, Not the Player
If you think dumping your coffee grounds in the bin after your daily grind isn’t as harmful to the environment as single-use plastic, think again. With millions of tonnes of waste grounds sent to landfill each year, where they don’t decompose the same as other organic waste, it’s a lesser-known – but still problematic –…
