The Weekly Briefing - 14 September

Our policy researcher Hilary Marsh presents a roundup of the week’s fashion headlines…

The Guardian

Halima Aden: ‘I felt like one of the biggest tokens in the industry’

Having previously discussed her move away from fashion modelling last year, due to the increasing need throughout her career for her to compromise her religion, Aden has spoken out on the tokenism she experienced. Read

Marie Claire

The Politics of Fashion

Marie Claire speaks to seven women trying to make big changes in the fashion industry from protecting garment workers to overproduction. Read

The Guardian

‘We can do it again’: Australian fashion brands offer employment for Afghan refugees

A group of Australian fashion brands are calling on the government to increase the quota of refugees from Afghanistan, promising to provide training and jobs for those refugees in return. Read

Vogue

Good optics: celebrities who made a bold political statement at this year's Met Gala

Fashion has a long, and sometimes uneasy, relationship with politics. But of course, what we wear is political—because of who made it, or who wears it or what we’re trying to say in doing so. And what better platform than the Met Gala, AKA fashion’s biggest night to make a statement? Read