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Future Visionaries

British Vogue is looking for the creative industry’s next stars. For its latest competition, dubbed Future Visionaries, British Vogue is asking readers to submit their best creative work. On offer is a chance to be featured in the pages of British Vogue and on Vogue.co.uk. Winners will also receive a mentoring session with a Vogue editor or expert of their choice. Whether you’re a student, graduate or a professional with a side hustle, this is an excellent opportunity to showcase your work.

To enter, all you have to do is submit a project you’ve been working on. This might be a poem, short story, musical performance, a distinctive hairstyle or a fashion mood board. As long as it’s creative, it’s something Vogue will want to see.

So how do you enter? Alongside your submission be sure to include the following: an overview of your work, up to five images in a portfolio style and a short summary of your aspirations and goals. Entries close at midnight on 17 September 2021. Apply here.

The Wardrobe Crisis

As the consumer complex glitches back into gear, we’re once again being compelled to buy. But what if we just stopped shopping?

The idea isn’t too far-fetched – in fact, we’ve done it before. Consumer consumption fell by over 20% last year, leading to the biggest drop in greenhouse gas emissions ever recorded, which means that for a brief moment in time, we were all leading much simpler lives. Can it be sustained?

This is the question that Clare Press and her guest, Canadian journalist J.B. MacKinnon, explore in the latest episode of The Wardrobe Crisis. Touching on topics as varied as hyperconsumerism, greed and living a simpler lifestyle, this episode will get you thinking critically about why we spend.

Listen to ‘The Day the World Stops Shopping’ here.

Good on You

Information on how much a brand’s clothes cost to make or whether it pays its workers a living wage is often hard to come by. But online platforms like Good on You are helping us to make more conscious choices about how we shop. As the leading sustainability ratings platform for fashion, Good on You compares fashion brands on the basis of their impact on the planet, people and environment.

Popular high street brand COS, owned by H&M’s Hennes & Mauritz, has a ‘It’s a Start’ rating on Good on You, for instance. The brand’s report explains: “COS publishes detailed information about its suppliers and supply chain policies, but it also creates short-lived, fast fashion products.” This explains why its rating is only ‘It’s a Start’ rather than ‘Good’ or ‘Great’.

Of course, COS isn’t the only brand you can search for – Good on You’s directory includes thousands of brands, from Whistles to Acne Studios and more. To find out just how ethical your favourite brands are search Good on You’s website here.