Ethical chic that you'll want to wear

Fairly-traded clothing can be a bit muesli, but Paula Burns finds some great sustainable threads that abide by the fundamentals of fashion — beautiful things you’ll want to wear

Fashion is renowned for its fast, furious and somewhat frivolous state. It’s an ever-changing stream of trends with designers churning out collection after collection leaving us in a dust of disposable fashion. This is what our consumer society demands.

There’s no down time and so we crave something new almost instantaneously. Fashion week should be renamed fashion months. No sooner have Spring/Summer trends been shown when the fashion squad high-tail their way to the runways of the resort collections and so the list goes on.