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The Fashion Advocate
The Fashion Advocate is a leading digital community and mentoring program for slow fashion businesses in Australia and New Zealand. The Fashion Advocate's growth labs, courses, masterclasses and mentoring programs increase sales and impact.

The Fashion Advocate was one of the largest online stores for ethical and sustainable fashion and a multi-award-winning e-commerce business. After rebranding in 2023, The Fashion Advocate is now a leading digital community and education platform for slow fashion brands. Founder Claire Goldsworthy is a respected Australian fashion industry revolutionary with over 15 years of experience, and she now teaches growth strategies and business acumen for scale slow fashion brands to support the future of sustainable fashion.

The Fashion Advocate was one of the largest online stores for ethical and sustainable fashion and a multi-award-winning e-commerce business. After rebranding in 2023, The Fashion Advocate is now a leading digital community and education platform for slow fashion brands. Founder Claire Goldsworthy is a respected Australian fashion industry revolutionary with over 15 years of experience, and she now teaches growth strategies and business acumen for scale slow fashion brands to support the future of sustainable fashion.

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SASTAIN
Helping fashion brands, manufacturing and textile producers reduce their carbon footprint along their supply chain, revenue losses due to stock outs and landfill due to stock imbalance..

We're on a mission to reduce carbon footprint and the amount of textiles that end up in landfill while increasing revenue via alerting key players across your supply chain to disruptions in real time and leveraging our industry tailored intelligent workflows™, together with EcoPartner Integration ™ to divert and redirect finished goods from landfill.

NSW
Watsons Bay

We're on a mission to reduce carbon footprint and the amount of textiles that end up in landfill while increasing revenue via alerting key players across your supply chain to disruptions in real time and leveraging our industry tailored intelligent workflows™, together with EcoPartner Integration ™ to divert and redirect finished goods from landfill.

NSW
Watsons Bay
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Ndless: The New Normal
Ndless is a change agent & strategic advisor to fashion & multi category retail specialising in human rights due diligence, sustainable material strategy, third party certifications, modern slavery reporting, communications and regulatory compliance.

Since 2013, Ndless has worked with a range of Australia and New Zealand’s leading brands and largest retailers. Navigating the complexity and challenges across the business and human rights spectrum is what we do best.

With deep, on-the-ground experience in programme development and implementation, we are committed to future proofing sustainability strategies by building and embedding company wide capacity and maturity.

Holding extensive global relationships spanning the breadth of the industry, we have facilitated numerous best practice partnerships designed to drive real impact.

We are passionate about driving change for good in the apparel and retail sectors and assisting businesses to develop fit for purpose strategies tailored to their market. Our broad expertise spans supply chain transformation, modern slavery and ethical sourcing due diligence, sustainable fibre strategies, third party certifications, policy development, sustainability communication strategies and stakeholder engagement. With a strong background in project management and experience delivering multiple end to end initiatives concurrently, we are adept at identifying the most pragmatic and effective approach whilst also staying ahead of legislative and regulatory developments.

NSW
Drummoyne

Since 2013, Ndless has worked with a range of Australia and New Zealand’s leading brands and largest retailers. Navigating the complexity and challenges across the business and human rights spectrum is what we do best.

With deep, on-the-ground experience in programme development and implementation, we are committed to future proofing sustainability strategies by building and embedding company wide capacity and maturity.

Holding extensive global relationships spanning the breadth of the industry, we have facilitated numerous best practice partnerships designed to drive real impact.

We are passionate about driving change for good in the apparel and retail sectors and assisting businesses to develop fit for purpose strategies tailored to their market. Our broad expertise spans supply chain transformation, modern slavery and ethical sourcing due diligence, sustainable fibre strategies, third party certifications, policy development, sustainability communication strategies and stakeholder engagement. With a strong background in project management and experience delivering multiple end to end initiatives concurrently, we are adept at identifying the most pragmatic and effective approach whilst also staying ahead of legislative and regulatory developments.

NSW
Drummoyne
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Urvara
SOURCING is global and local for us. We work with some of the biggest and best textile manufacturers that invest in sustainable high-tech and new-age materials, as well as artisan and boutique spinners and weavers engaged in traditional craftsmanshi.

We love fashion.

WE are a sustainable fashion sourcing company. Our head office is in Perth, WA and our operations centre is based in Chennai, with a pan India vendor network.

We believe that effort and good people makes change.

We work with the right partners who act consistently. They implement Fairtrade, adhere to compliance, invest in new technologies, recycle and reuse, revive crafts and respect human life.

Much like the diverse culture of our land, we work together to achieve our goal: to make fashion climate-neutral.

WA
Langford

We love fashion.

WE are a sustainable fashion sourcing company. Our head office is in Perth, WA and our operations centre is based in Chennai, with a pan India vendor network.

We believe that effort and good people makes change.

We work with the right partners who act consistently. They implement Fairtrade, adhere to compliance, invest in new technologies, recycle and reuse, revive crafts and respect human life.

Much like the diverse culture of our land, we work together to achieve our goal: to make fashion climate-neutral.

WA
Langford
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Retourna Group and KonaCoco
The Retourna Group turns fashion waste into want / KonaCoco is the home of urban island luxe, a sustainably led label developing circular practises

The Retourna Group is an Australian Company that implements circular supply chains and capabilities using innovative proprietary technology, disruptive business models and a highly collaborative partnerships model. Our current technology product effectively scans and identifies fabric composition and colour for sorting purposes using a highly scalable and accessible solution.

KonaCoco was founded in 2018 in Singapore and has grown into a much loved boutique luxe label with a promise of ever increasing true sustainability. It's sub label reGLAM takes overstock premium designer garments and reimagines them using the skills of experienced dressmakers into ultimately rewearable premium garments. Featured in Tatler Asia and many other magazines internationally, showcased by the Singapore Fashion Council as a leading emerging sustainable label, it serves online clients worldwide, and stocks multiple boutiques from Australia, to Singapore and Spain.

WA
Hillarys

The Retourna Group is an Australian Company that implements circular supply chains and capabilities using innovative proprietary technology, disruptive business models and a highly collaborative partnerships model. Our current technology product effectively scans and identifies fabric composition and colour for sorting purposes using a highly scalable and accessible solution.

KonaCoco was founded in 2018 in Singapore and has grown into a much loved boutique luxe label with a promise of ever increasing true sustainability. It's sub label reGLAM takes overstock premium designer garments and reimagines them using the skills of experienced dressmakers into ultimately rewearable premium garments. Featured in Tatler Asia and many other magazines internationally, showcased by the Singapore Fashion Council as a leading emerging sustainable label, it serves online clients worldwide, and stocks multiple boutiques from Australia, to Singapore and Spain.

WA
Hillarys
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New Romantic
Newromantic is focused on driving Responsible Brand and Business Transformation, Impact Strategy, ESG, Ethical Production and Sourcing, Circularity and Communications.

Mission: To create and work with the Brands Of The Future©

At Newromantic, we work to a core philosophy, the New Luxury© - a human-centered, circular, and responsible fashion, retail and textile economy.

We have developed a unique methodology to drive Responsible Brand and Business Transformation, Impact Strategy, ESG, Ethical Production and Sourcing, Circularity and Communications, we act as your external team to educate, empower and support your organisations goals.

Working closely with our portfolio as their external sustainability & impact team, we drive meaningful and results-driven cultural transformation, enabling the next generation of cross-functional responsible brand leaders. We believe that the future leaders of resilient and healthy organisations are those that have a core understanding of purpose as a key cultural elements of a brand, and how to integrate society, environment, and economy into key operational decisions.

Our approach is positive and pragmatic, data and science-driven leaving members of the organisation excited to see opportunities over challenges.

NSW
Sydney

Mission: To create and work with the Brands Of The Future©

At Newromantic, we work to a core philosophy, the New Luxury© - a human-centered, circular, and responsible fashion, retail and textile economy.

We have developed a unique methodology to drive Responsible Brand and Business Transformation, Impact Strategy, ESG, Ethical Production and Sourcing, Circularity and Communications, we act as your external team to educate, empower and support your organisations goals.

Working closely with our portfolio as their external sustainability & impact team, we drive meaningful and results-driven cultural transformation, enabling the next generation of cross-functional responsible brand leaders. We believe that the future leaders of resilient and healthy organisations are those that have a core understanding of purpose as a key cultural elements of a brand, and how to integrate society, environment, and economy into key operational decisions.

Our approach is positive and pragmatic, data and science-driven leaving members of the organisation excited to see opportunities over challenges.

NSW
Sydney
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Belinda Humphrey
Belinda Humphrey helps purpose-led businesses sustainably navigate the product development process, by providing hands on design services or strategy.
Belinda is a freelance fashion designer and consultant for purpose-driven brands and fashion startups ready to disrupt the fashion industry for good. She is prepared to assist in navigating the fashion industry in a sustainable way in order to encourage growth and prosperity within the industry
Belinda is a freelance fashion designer and consultant for purpose-driven brands and fashion startups ready to disrupt the fashion industry for good. She is prepared to assist in navigating the fashion industry in a sustainable way in order to encourage growth and prosperity within the industry
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Meyd It
Meyd.it is the habitat for slow fashion. We matchmake conscious citizens, who wear their values with fashion creatives who make their vision real.

At Meyd.it, we are revolutionizing the slow fashion marketplace with our unique blend of immersive and collaborative technologies. Conscious consumers want authentic, ethical, sustainable, and well-crafted garments. They align with their values and are highly aware of the ecological and ethical disaster that is fast fashion. We help you be be part of the solution not the pollution.

Creating made-to-measure and made-on-order clothes produces less waste and uses less resources. These garments are crafted specifically for the individual, ensuring the perfect fit and style, and are made to last longer. Meyd.it clients post their custom requests on the platform, ranging from up-cycling and redesigning to couture creations. We believe that fashion is at its best when it's a unique expression of individuality, creativity, and personality, and we strive to bring this joy for our clients and creatives to share.

Navigating the complexities of creating a renown and successful slow fashion business, designing collections, communicating with clients and suppliers, building your creative digital presence and growing your brand can be daunting tasks. That is why Meyd.it goes beyond matchmaking ateliers and creatives, with clients. Our platform helps manage the making process, so our makers can save time and focus on creating.

We are creating a community of like-minded individuals who share a passion for slow fashion, creativity, ecological and social justice. Please join us on this journey and experience the benefits of our immersive and collaborative technologies for yourself.

NSW
Tamarama

At Meyd.it, we are revolutionizing the slow fashion marketplace with our unique blend of immersive and collaborative technologies. Conscious consumers want authentic, ethical, sustainable, and well-crafted garments. They align with their values and are highly aware of the ecological and ethical disaster that is fast fashion. We help you be be part of the solution not the pollution.

Creating made-to-measure and made-on-order clothes produces less waste and uses less resources. These garments are crafted specifically for the individual, ensuring the perfect fit and style, and are made to last longer. Meyd.it clients post their custom requests on the platform, ranging from up-cycling and redesigning to couture creations. We believe that fashion is at its best when it's a unique expression of individuality, creativity, and personality, and we strive to bring this joy for our clients and creatives to share.

Navigating the complexities of creating a renown and successful slow fashion business, designing collections, communicating with clients and suppliers, building your creative digital presence and growing your brand can be daunting tasks. That is why Meyd.it goes beyond matchmaking ateliers and creatives, with clients. Our platform helps manage the making process, so our makers can save time and focus on creating.

We are creating a community of like-minded individuals who share a passion for slow fashion, creativity, ecological and social justice. Please join us on this journey and experience the benefits of our immersive and collaborative technologies for yourself.

NSW
Tamarama
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re-mint
we enable brands to participate in the circular economy

re-mint is a full service circular fashion solution for brands:
1) technology - our white label tech can be embedded onto your brand's ecommerce site so you can easily set up an official resale marketplace where you and your customers can buy and sell pre-owned garments
2) operations - we handle all daily operations including quality verification, shipping labels, payments/refunds, customer queries and disputes
3) marketing - we offer marketing support to ensure your resale market reinforces and strengthens your core brand positioning
4) data / analytics - use resale insights to inform pricing and production decisions for core brand

NSW
Sydney

re-mint is a full service circular fashion solution for brands:
1) technology - our white label tech can be embedded onto your brand's ecommerce site so you can easily set up an official resale marketplace where you and your customers can buy and sell pre-owned garments
2) operations - we handle all daily operations including quality verification, shipping labels, payments/refunds, customer queries and disputes
3) marketing - we offer marketing support to ensure your resale market reinforces and strengthens your core brand positioning
4) data / analytics - use resale insights to inform pricing and production decisions for core brand

NSW
Sydney
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Textile Recyclers Australia
Recycling of textiles & apparel.

Our Mission: To keep as much Textile & Apparel out of the landfill as possible.
We have practical solutions today to keep textiles & apparel out of landfills.
From supporting retail take-back programs to capturing cutting room off cuts.
We also provide compostable packaging solutions to your supply chain.

VIC
RAVENHALL

Our Mission: To keep as much Textile & Apparel out of the landfill as possible.
We have practical solutions today to keep textiles & apparel out of landfills.
From supporting retail take-back programs to capturing cutting room off cuts.
We also provide compostable packaging solutions to your supply chain.

VIC
RAVENHALL
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Circular Centre
REPLACE, REPAIR, REDESIGN, REPURPOSE. STSC manufactures & wholesales 500+ sustainable textiles including low MOQs. Circular design consulting + Circular Textile Waste Service to take-back all forms of textile "waste" via Circular Textile Precincts.

Think of a circular jigsaw where garments + textile resources come in and out of our circular systems to ensure they are made sustainably, plus the "waste" stays local and out of landfill and the resources remain at their highest value for longer.

We REPLACE unsustainable textiles, including a new development CircStretch textile where we have designed out toxic plastic microfibres from stretch clothing. CircStretch blends natural fibres with the world’s first Cradle To Cradle® Products Innovation Institute Gold Level Material Health Certified elastane yarn that is also Certified by the Hohenstein Institute as 100% non-toxic as it breaks down making it safe to home compost.

We offer a smart thread solution to create advanced e-textiles for supply chain management from fibre to "waste" plus QR Code customer engagement linking to existing IT systems for wholesale, transport, data collection then transfer to blockchain when it reaches the Circular Textile Waste Service.

Through our Circular Textile Precincts we train staff to set up our unique circular systems to provide jobs suited to the individuals skillset. We valorise and redistribute via our existing circular streams to keep 100% of the jobs and resources onshore.

Our Circular Textile Waste Service can collect unwearable and unusable garment and textile waste to reuse, repair, redesign and repurpose through four main circular textile systems. Work with us to create circular design systems to inspire your customers and become circular industry leaders.

NSW
Stanmore

Think of a circular jigsaw where garments + textile resources come in and out of our circular systems to ensure they are made sustainably, plus the "waste" stays local and out of landfill and the resources remain at their highest value for longer.

We REPLACE unsustainable textiles, including a new development CircStretch textile where we have designed out toxic plastic microfibres from stretch clothing. CircStretch blends natural fibres with the world’s first Cradle To Cradle® Products Innovation Institute Gold Level Material Health Certified elastane yarn that is also Certified by the Hohenstein Institute as 100% non-toxic as it breaks down making it safe to home compost.

We offer a smart thread solution to create advanced e-textiles for supply chain management from fibre to "waste" plus QR Code customer engagement linking to existing IT systems for wholesale, transport, data collection then transfer to blockchain when it reaches the Circular Textile Waste Service.

Through our Circular Textile Precincts we train staff to set up our unique circular systems to provide jobs suited to the individuals skillset. We valorise and redistribute via our existing circular streams to keep 100% of the jobs and resources onshore.

Our Circular Textile Waste Service can collect unwearable and unusable garment and textile waste to reuse, repair, redesign and repurpose through four main circular textile systems. Work with us to create circular design systems to inspire your customers and become circular industry leaders.

NSW
Stanmore
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The Growth Activists
The Growth Activists is a strategy and communications consultancy specialising in ESG & Sustainability Transformation, B Corp Certification, Impact Reporting, Growth Strategy, Strategic Planning and Brand & Communications Strategy.

The purpose of The Growth Activists is to fulfil the potential of people and organisations to do well and do good.

Our expert team of advisors come with local and global industry experience in growing, transforming and exiting businesses.

Clients tell us that through our work we help build capability and confidence in their teams, that our standards and quality are contagious, and that our obsession with implementation effectiveness delivers results long after project completion.

Culture is our unfair advantage - we know that making work human is the key to success.

The purpose of The Growth Activists is to fulfil the potential of people and organisations to do well and do good.

Our expert team of advisors come with local and global industry experience in growing, transforming and exiting businesses.

Clients tell us that through our work we help build capability and confidence in their teams, that our standards and quality are contagious, and that our obsession with implementation effectiveness delivers results long after project completion.

Culture is our unfair advantage - we know that making work human is the key to success.

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Clothes Minded
Ellen established Clothes Minded with a goal of guiding and assisting fashion businesses, opening their minds to the possibilities of doing better - Better business, better fashion and better world.

Clothes Minded provides a range of services including sustainability consulting, sample making, ethical sourcing, design work and start-up assistance.

Clothes Minded provides a range of services including sustainability consulting, sample making, ethical sourcing, design work and start-up assistance.

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Fashion Equipped
Fashion Equipped provides consultancy, mentorship and online learning for all stages of planning, launching and growing a fashion business, giving our clients access to an unrivalled knowledge bank and decades of expertise.

Fashion Equipped provides consulting, mentorship and online learning for all stages of planning, launching and growing a fashion business, giving our clients access to an unrivalled knowledge bank and decades of expertise.

We work with fashion start-ups, designers, brands, retailers, entrepreneurs and established six and seven figure businesses, tailoring our services to any stage of development - whether you are starting or already own a label, brand, online boutique, wholesale business, retail store, or a combined model.

With your version of success as the guiding principle, our team is here to support, advise and ensure you benefit from best practise knowledge, successful strategies, vital resources and extensive networks.

With the support of the Fashion Equipped team your business will accelerate faster than ever. The development and growth phase of any business is exciting - but it can also be challenging and overwhelming. But with the right consultant and a strong strategy you'll be well supported and poised for success.

Vic
South Melbourne

Fashion Equipped provides consulting, mentorship and online learning for all stages of planning, launching and growing a fashion business, giving our clients access to an unrivalled knowledge bank and decades of expertise.

We work with fashion start-ups, designers, brands, retailers, entrepreneurs and established six and seven figure businesses, tailoring our services to any stage of development - whether you are starting or already own a label, brand, online boutique, wholesale business, retail store, or a combined model.

With your version of success as the guiding principle, our team is here to support, advise and ensure you benefit from best practise knowledge, successful strategies, vital resources and extensive networks.

With the support of the Fashion Equipped team your business will accelerate faster than ever. The development and growth phase of any business is exciting - but it can also be challenging and overwhelming. But with the right consultant and a strong strategy you'll be well supported and poised for success.

Vic
South Melbourne
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Future Fashion Agency
The Future Fashion Agency works with organisations on the transition to a sustainable and circular fashion industry.

Services include development of a sustainability strategy; circular design and lifecycle thinking; and staff training.

NSW
Sydney

Services include development of a sustainability strategy; circular design and lifecycle thinking; and staff training.

NSW
Sydney
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Ume Studio
Ume Studio is a full service design agency and consultancy focusing on purpose-led brands across lifestyle, fashion, sports and activewear.

Ume Studio provides fashion industry expertise in strategy, design and digital development, to enable established businesses and emerging startups to responsibly build and scale impactful brands. We support companies with their efforts to innovate socially and environmentally responsible products through informed advisory services and backed by extensive experience in design and sourcing. Alongside that we also offer 3D garment development which aims to minimise environmental waste in the sampling process while optimising the range creation process.

Vic
Melbourne

Ume Studio provides fashion industry expertise in strategy, design and digital development, to enable established businesses and emerging startups to responsibly build and scale impactful brands. We support companies with their efforts to innovate socially and environmentally responsible products through informed advisory services and backed by extensive experience in design and sourcing. Alongside that we also offer 3D garment development which aims to minimise environmental waste in the sampling process while optimising the range creation process.

Vic
Melbourne
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Q Social Impact
Q Social Impact can guide you in the development of a sustainability strategy, materiality assessment, and recommend ESG actions for your brand. We also coach employees how to activate sustainability in the workplace.

Whether your brand is at the very beginning of its sustainability journey, or needing a refresh on strategy, Q Social Impact can guide your brand towards a more sustainable version of itself. We conduct ESG (environmental, social and governance) materiality assessments and advise on best practice for sustainability disclosures, ESG reporting trends and more. Our service is supported by a senior team of experts with industry backgrounds who understand the need to align ESG actions to overall corporate strategy. We can also coach your employees on how to activate sustainability in the workplace.

Victoria
Melbourne

Whether your brand is at the very beginning of its sustainability journey, or needing a refresh on strategy, Q Social Impact can guide your brand towards a more sustainable version of itself. We conduct ESG (environmental, social and governance) materiality assessments and advise on best practice for sustainability disclosures, ESG reporting trends and more. Our service is supported by a senior team of experts with industry backgrounds who understand the need to align ESG actions to overall corporate strategy. We can also coach your employees on how to activate sustainability in the workplace.

Victoria
Melbourne
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