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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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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....

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