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Simply Suzette is a storytelling platform exploring the intersection / juxtaposition of sustainable fashion with a denim focus.

We believe in the democratization of information and encouraging informed purchasing decisions through .

08/31/2026

published a piece on the Everlane and Shein acquisition, the shift from climate action to “climate risk” language, and what this reveals about how fashion handles trade-offs.

It explores the tensions between business survival and climate responsibility, worker safety and carbon targets, and the need for proof alongside the growing burden of compliance.

From outside the industry, these contradictions can quickly become a gotcha. Inside, they are often softened through safer language. Either way, the consequences tend to move down the supply chain and land on the people with the least power.

The piece is worth reading because it stays with these difficult questions and looks closely at who is being asked to carry the trade-offs.

If we want better fashion systems, we need to be more honest about the contradictions within them.

Read the full piece via .

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08/24/2026

Intersectional environmentalism reminds us that climate work is connected to people, power and place, including questions of labour, race, gender, disability and access.

This is deeply relevant to fashion.

Environmental conversations across the industry often focus on materials, emissions and production methods. Our exploration widens the lens by asking who carries the consequences, whose knowledge is valued and which communities remain overlooked.

On Substack, we explore why environmental justice belongs in fashion, what decolonising the industry asks of us, and some of the people and projects already putting these ideas into practice.

08/20/2026

natural dye experiments with fig leaves by

08/17/2026

What if fashion’s supply chains were designed to help solve problems while producing the things we need?

Our latest article explores social procurement as a practical way for brands to use their everyday spending power differently by building social value into how they source materials, manufacture clothing, manage waste and extend the life of products.

There are already many examples across fashion’s supply chain. Cotton cooperatives, artisan networks, refugee-led tailoring workshops, waste picker groups and social enterprises are showing what is possible when brands direct existing budgets towards businesses that benefit people and communities.

The question is whether brands are willing to make space for these models within their usual sourcing and procurement decisions.

Read the full article on Substack.

08/13/2026

Inspired by the patterns found in rock forms and the kind of beauty that feels special without being polished.

Shaped by pressure and time, nature really does the most.

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08/03/2026

Emily Gubbay’s Infinity Blue looks at denim waste from a different angle.

The project considers the fibre, as well as the indigo already sitting inside discarded denim. Its process recovers synthetic indigo pigment from denim waste and turns it back into usable colour for dyeing, printing and denim finishing.

In a collaboration with Blackhorse Lane Ateliers, indigo extracted from 50g of denim offcuts was used to print a pair of jeans!

07/09/2026

Overconsumption keeps slipping to the sidelines of fashion conversations.

We talk about materials, traceability, recycling, DPP, EPR, waste systems. All of which matter.

But the elephant in the room is still degrowth.

Because we cannot keep producing more clothing every year, then expect better sorting, better recycling, or better data to clean up the consequences.

At some point, fashion has to ask the harder question. Not just how do we make products “better”? But why are we making so many in the first place?

Do you see a world where 'degrowth' enters the conversation for real?

has a great piece on this written by we would highly recommend!

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07/06/2026

A little while ago, released The Drip, their first publication exploring water justice in fashion.

It brings together 8 articles and 10 authors asking one urgent question: who really pays the price when the fashion industry treats water as just another production input?

The publication moves through factory floors, polluted rivers, farming systems, research, advocacy, and the people closest to the impacts. It looks at water not as a background issue, but as something tied to labour, health, land, power, and accountability.

What I really appreciate about the full publication is that it refuses to make water feel abstract. It asks us to look closer at who is affected, whose knowledge counts, and what gets hidden when fashion relies on tools and systems that cannot fully capture lived reality.

Grateful to be included alongside so many thoughtful voices.

You can read The Drip through 💧

07/02/2026

Sally Fox’s coloured cotton for Wolhide

Sally Fox has been working with organic and naturally coloured cotton since the early 1980s, breeding these soft browns, greens, and ecru tones so the fibre doesn’t need to be dyed later.

I love that Wolhide didn't just make this a “better material” story. They truly made it about farming, breeding, patience, lost textile infrastructure, and the people who keep going even when the industry takes way too long to catch up.

Colour grown in the field.
Not added after!

06/29/2026

Plastic fashion is everywhere, even when we do not call it that.

Polyester. Nylon. Acrylic. Elastane. Fleece. Stretch denim. “Vegan” leather. Performance wear.

So many of the clothes in our closets are made from fossil fuel based materials.

That does not mean the answer is as simple as never wearing synthetics again. But it does mean we need to understand what we are buying, designing, sourcing, and washing.

Our Plastic Fashion 101 resource breaks down what fossil fuel based fibres are, where they show up, why they matter, and what questions to ask before choosing them.

Because if fashion wants to move away from oil, we first need to know where it is hiding.

Download the resource through the link in bio.

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