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Sara Arnold A screengrab of The Common Market holding page Activist group Fashion Act Now (FAN) wants to dismantle the globalised growth-based fashion system and nurture non-capitalist clothing systems. In the summer of 2022, FAN launched The Common Market, an online marketplace to celebrate alternative systems and the extraordinary hidden world of clothing cultures that are uncorrupted by profit. This is no ordinary marketplace - nothing is for sale. Here you can find commun

Alexandre Prince, Fashion Act Now Montreal In recent years, the terms “commoning” and “the commons” have become the central tenants of many approaches towards sustainability, yet, fashion activists have shown very little interest in these concepts until now. In an attempt to bridge the commons framework with fashion sustainability Fashion Act Now (FAN), a global fashion activist group that emerged from the London chapter of Extinction Rebellion, decided to organize its first

by Katherine Soucie Sans Soucie hosiery transformation process - dyed, printed and embroidered waste hosiery transformed into yardage being sewn into a couture dress for the Substraction Tour collection, 2009. Photo by Ian Sheh Fashion is a form of cultural production based on a system of collaborative processes. It is a language that communicates and embodies the ability to express identity through its transformative qualities, and provides the shape to our daily social expe