Fashion Revolution Week is an annual campaign week that brings together the world’s largest fashion activism movement for seven days of action. This year, from 22 to 27 April 2025, we will work together to reinvent a just and fair fashion system for people and the planet.

 

Fashion Revolution Week takes place every year in the week around 24 April. This date is the anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013.

2025 marks the 11th edition of Fashion Revolution Week.

Rana Plaza, a building in Bangladesh, housed a number of garment factories that employed around 5,000 people. The people in this building produced clothing for many of the world’s biggest fashion brands. More than 1,100 people – mostly young women – died in the collapse and a further 2,500 were injured, making it the fourth largest industrial disaster in history.

No one should die for fashion.

All events https://fashionrevolutiongermany.de/kalender-2

Now it is done, we have published our first online course “The Power of Second Hand Fashion”. In the 15min course you will learn everything you need to know about positive impact of second hand fashion on environement and society. We give you hands on practical guides. With our quizzes you can test your knowlegde. And if you go even further, you will find relevant sources in our information cosmos. We really worked hard to make our vision real. We thank everyone involved in the whole process of making. 
Find the course here: https://autark.berlin/courses/course-1-the-power-of-second-hand-clothing-a-sustainable-choice-for-the-environment-and-society

Best wishes, 
Mandy & Kristina 

We are totally happy to share our seccond course on sustainable materials. It only takes 15 minutes of your time to learn the why and how of embracing a more sustainable lifestyle, when it comes to fashion consumption. Our short videos provide a holistic approach and practicial information on the subject. Have a look now! 
Link to the course: https://autark.berlin/courses/course-2-the-power-of-sustainable-materials-in-fashion

Best wishes, 
Mandy & Kristina 

Here you can find our videos and guidelines for the topics sustainable materials as well as second hand in German & English. 

Mandy Töppel and Kristina Fajga from Berlin have been blogging on autark.berlin since 2019 around topics of sustainable clothing consumption and ask themselves what a 1.5 degree lifestyle looks like. During their research, they noticed that information on the topic is scattered everywhere, contradicts each other and is sometimes not available at all.

Under these circumstances, it is made difficult for consumers to adopt sustainable behaviours. The bloggers wondered whether by strengthening information literacy, consumers can be empowered to learn what information needs exist, where to find relevant information, how it relates to each other and to share this knowledge. In this context, the two Berliners have been conducting a feasibility study in the ILP Fashion Project – Information Literacy Platform of Responsible Fashion Consumption and Utilisation since December 2021 to develop a sustainable learning concept and implement it in an educational app.

First video prototypes with learning concept developed together with project partners

During the project, a learning concept was developed and implemented in two video prototypes on the topics of “materials” and “second hand”. The core of the learning concept is a holistic transfer of knowledge that conveys aspects of the effects of clothing consumption on the environment and society as well as knowledge about applications in everyday life and the handling of information. The knowledge is to be conveyed primarily via videos and guides.

autark.berlin was supported by renowned project partners such as Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH, Cradle to Cradle NGO, Hessnatur Foundation, IÖW Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the Senior Research Group Berlin as well as stakeholders such as Femnet e.V., Givn Berlin, looplook, Project Cece, and researchers in the field of sustainable consumption Dr. Samira Iran and Dr. Maike Gossen from the Technical University of Berlin.

Online survey with learning video launched – Donations will be made if you participate
A survey (in German) is currently being conducted among potential users of the app to gather feedback on the video and the planned platform and to involve them in the development at an early stage. Interested parties can take part in an online survey and watch the video until the end of November 2022. For every completed questionnaire, autark.berlin will donate 1 euro to the non-profit association trial and error e.V. (www.trial-error.org) from Berlin-Neukölln, which offers workshops and repair cafés for sustainable clothing consumption. Taking part and spreading the word is doubly worthwhile. You can find the survey here. 

The ILP Fashion Project is funded by the Innovation Programme for Business Models and Pioneer Solutions (IGP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection.

 Contact:

Dr. Kristina Fajga | kristina@autark.berlin 
www.autark.berlin

www.instagram.com/autark.berlin

WEBSITE
https://autark.berlin/watch-our-first-video-now-and-help-to-built-up-our-learning-platform-for-sustainable-consumption-of-clothes-your-opinion-matters

Social Media
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjFn0uQjtU9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

LinkEd IN
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6981201158098841601

We are very happy to share our first video prototype (only in German) about the topic second hand. We would be happy, if you watch the video. Your feedback will be very helpful for us. 

For every fully completed questionnaire we will donate 1 € to trial and error
e.V. , a non-profit organisation for sustainable clothing consumption in Berlin.

Spread the word! 
Thanks to Ferdinand Dorendorf for the mindblowing artwork. We are so happy to work with you.

Thanks to our wonderful project partners: Berlin Partner for Business and Technology
GmbH. Cradle to Cradle NGO, Hessnatur Foundation, IOW Institute for Ecological Economic
Research, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Senior Research Group

Thanks to Maike Gossen, Dr. Samira Iran, Femnet e.V., Fashion Revolution, GIVN Berlin, Project Cece for your support. We are more than thankful. 

Thanks to Stella Emig and Hannah Blanke for their suppport so far. 

Thank you so much Mona Hornung for your support.

Thanks to BMWK for the financial support. More info about the project can be find here.

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