We want to be honest with you. Over the past two years, funding for labor organizing and climate justice work has declined sharply, and we've felt that impact deeply. The political and economic landscape has shifted, with growing pushback against the corporate accountability measures we fought so hard to establish.
We explored every option: restructuring our operations, seeking merger opportunities with aligned organizations, pivoting our model, and pursuing new funding streams.
Despite these efforts and the tireless work of our team, we were unable to secure the sustainable funding needed to continue operating at the level our mission demands.
Our board made the difficult determination that the most responsible path forward was to close with intention and integrity, honoring our commitments to partners, ensuring proper wind-down of programs, and celebrating what we accomplished together, rather than compromising the quality of our work or our values.
None of this, not one campaign, not one recovered dollar, not one shifted policy, would have happened without you. Our collaborators, funders, coalition allies, and next-gen community showed up again and again with courage, compassion, and conviction.
Thank you for believing in us. Thank you for standing in solidarity. Thank you for helping remake what fashion could be.
With deep gratitude and love,
Ayesha Barenblat + The Remake Team ❤️
PS The Remake Instagram account will remain active after Remake closes. We'll be transferring ownership to our Director of Digital Media, who will continue running the account independently and without affiliation to Remake or nonprofit status.
We're grateful she's carrying that platform forward in the spirit of class consciousness, environmental stewardship and community.
We encourage you to follow along if you've liked her past work on this page.
#RemakeOurWorld #NoNewClothes #PayUp #PayHer
/ Our movement is for you. Donate at remake.world đź–¤ Thank you to Remake Fellow @jennyfriedberg and @zoeadlersberg for visually telling the story of Remake with your incredible talents to help us spread this movement!
As a non profit we could never afford such a professional video but their team donated their time, talents, resources and connections to make it happen! Another shining example of how no matter your unique capabilities, there is always a place for everyone in activism. 🖤🤍
“So happy to finally share the project that @jennyfriedberg and I created for @remakeourworld . A labor of love from start to finish thank you to all the people that put your heart and soul into making this happen and shedding light on the labor and environmental issues in fashion that need work ❤️🙏🏼 And 🎉🎉🎉 to @remakeourworld for the education, passion and advocacy you’ve created. ❤️” - @zoeadlersberg
Credits:
Directors - @jennyfriedberg@zoeadlersberg
DP interviews - @derekwnelson
Editor - @spiegeltopia
Color interviews - @jake.m.white@company_3
#wearyourvalues #nonewclothes #payup #sustainablefashion #slowfashionmovement #activism #climateactionnow
Did you know: Clothing production doubled and per capita garment purchases increased by 60% from 2000 to 2014. ‼
That clothing also comes at an enormous environmental cost.
Cheap clothes are made with fossil fuel. The only way to make the volume of clothing we make today is with polyester, which is fossil fuel. It takes discarded clothing approximately 200 years to decompose fully. In the meantime, decomposing clothes contain dangerous chemicals, microplastic fibers, and release greenhouse gasses, putting both the planet and the health and well-being of communities near these landfills at risk.
Remake challenges you to buy no new clothes—whether that’s buying nothing at all or only secondhand—for 90 days. The purpose of this challenge is to stop and consider the values we want to wear, and the role we can play in addressing overconsumption to change the fashion industry.
Why is it that men are often the ones at the very top of brand hierarchies?
In fact, according to retail merchandising company Nextail, male candidates made up 76.9% of all CEO appointments in the fashion industry in 2021. Gender pay disparities are often huge due to these power imbalances.
For example, in its 2021/22 Gender Pay Gap Report, H&M reported that in the year 2021, there was a 22.9% and 42.5% gender pay gap among their retail workers in favor of male colleagues.
However, this issue is not limited to major supply chains like H&M. Of the 4 million garment workers in Indonesia, around 58% are women... so let's support women owned SMEs breaking the mold.
(SME = small to medium sized enterprises)
Have you considered these questions as you boycott and reconsider consumption? What other realizations have hit you?
Don't forget to sign our #NoNewClothes challenge so we can track your collective impact! 🎉
#WearYourvalues #nobuychallenge #nobuyyear #nobuy #slowlifediary
As long as more and more clothes are made every year, circular fashion, better materials, and energy efficiency will never be enough. The industry cannot out innovate overproduction.
Recycling does not cancel out excess.
“Conscious” collections do not justify endless drops.
Efficiency does not fix a system built on volume.
Real climate action in fashion means producing less, buying less, and valuing the clothes already in circulation. Everything else is a distraction from the root problem.
Read more about it at remake.world
New clothes do not equal a better you.
Confidence is not for sale, and self-worth does not come with tags.
The fashion industry creates over 92 million tons of textile waste every year. Most of it comes from clothes that were barely worn. Wearing what you already love is a quiet form of resistance.
This year we're repeating outfits, rejecting overconsumption, and choosing style that aligns with out values. The most sustainable outfit is the one already in your closet.
Over the past century, our shopping habits have changed dramatically, and consumption has accelerated.
What’s behind the idea of buying things as a feel good form of therapy?
Swipe to find out!
#amazonfinds #nobuyyear #NoNewClothes #slowlifediary #nobuychallenge
Not only are the vast majority of garment workers globally are employed in Asia, with South Asian countries among the largest producers- but some of the Western World's fashion is borrwed or even stolen from those cultures.
@mohuyaakhan explains:
"America and Europe keep forgetting that South Asians ARE 👏🏽THE 👏🏽 BLUEPRINT 👏🏽 cashmere sweaters and pashmina scarves have been a huge indicator of wealth in the West and now a part of the "old money/quiet luxury" aesthetic, but just know that this wouldn't be possible without the intensive labor of Kashmiri's
we CAN NOT keep leaving out this important part in conversations so make sure you learn about and share this cultural history. what are your thoughts on this? 🪡🧶"
Swipe to page 2 to see the worst scoring brands to avoid from our report. đźš«
It remains clear that the fashion industry is failing both people and the planet.Taking an intersectional approach to the human rights, environmental, economic, and political issues embedded in fashion supply chains, Remake’s Fashion Accountability Report measures and informs progress where it matters. It provides a roadmap for all industry stakeholders to take action and advocate for a more equitable and resilient global apparel production system.
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This holiday season, more people are opting out of business as usual.
Across the U.S., coordinated holiday boycotts are pushing back against corporate greed, political influence, union-busting, and the gap between record profits and everyday struggle.
In a system where corporations shape policy and public life, money becomes one of the few tools most people have.
When large numbers of people stop spending, companies notice. Profits dip, attention follows, and pressure builds.
Boycotts have long been part of social change. From labor movements to civil rights, collective economic pressure has forced institutions to respond when they would not listen otherwise. They work because people act together, not because individuals are perfect.
We're rejecting nonstop consumption as normal or harmless. Ask yourself who really benefits from holiday spending and who pays the cost through low wages, political influence, and environmental damage.
You do not have to do everything.
You do not have to be perfect.
You just have to be intentional and connected to others.
Collective action is not always loud. Sometimes it looks like absence.
Empty carts. Fewer clicks.
Less consumption. More intention.
Collective power.
