The Earth Is One, But The World Is Not
The Planet belongs to everyone .
Our goal is to make environmental news within the fashion industry more accessible. To empower minds with knowledge that encourages consumers to act towards a sustainable future.
Three Giants and the Quiet Ruin
A slow machinery hummed beneath the banners of philanthropy, where the Rockefeller and Ford foundations poured their polished coins into the great citadel of the Bank. What they financed was not merely “operating costs” but the quiet architecture of obedience: conditionalities etched like fine print onto the futures of nations. Loans arrived as promises and departed as shackles, leaving whole economies bent under the weight of reforms they never chose. In the wake of this benevolent empire, fields withered, currencies buckled, and sovereignty thinned to a whisper—proof that ruin can be engineered not only through conquest, but through the soft, relentless pressure of help that costs more than it gives.
What to know more
The developmental impact of the CBTPA and HOPE Acts on value addition, economic growth, and living standards in Haiti
Dominican Republic and Vietnam in the Global Apparel Economy
A Comparative Analysis of Competitiveness and Economic Leakage
Loveitstitchitkeepit.com compare the textile and apparel sectors of the Dominican Republic and Vietnam through the lens of economic leakage—the loss of value via tax incentives, profit repatriation, weak domestic linkages, and external control of intellectual property (IP).
Sustainability as Power:
US Cotton Subsidies, BCI, and the Struggle for Equity in African Cotton Markets
The global cotton sector is frequently presented as a domain where sustainability, development and market efficiency converge to improve outcomes for producers and the environment. Yet this narrative obscures the extent to which the industry is structured by entrenched geopolitical and commercial power relations that determine who benefits from global trade and who remains marginalised. Nowhere is this more visible than in the intersection of US cotton subsidies,
The $300 Million Illusion: Foreign Direct Investment, Special Economic Zones, and Economic Leakage in Guatemala’s Apparel Sector
Loveitstitchitkeepit.com examine the political economy of Hansae’s $300 million investment in a vertically integrated apparel complex in Guatemala’s Michatoya Industrial Park. While the investment is publicly framed as a catalyst for development, employment, and nearshoring competitiveness, the structure of Guatemala’s Special Public Economic Development Zones (ZDEEP) generates significant economic leakage through tax exemptions, profit repatriation, imported inputs, and externalized environmental and social costs.
Polyester Part One
The clothes we wear undergo a series of different stages in their lifecycle, raw material extraction, processing, manufacturing, and end-of-life. Each stage of the lifecycle yields different environmental impacts.......
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Artificial Leather (PVC)
Isn’t FRIENDLY to YOU or the PLANET
Vinyl chloride was banned in 1974, but only for its use in aerosols, it is still allowed in other products. In the last 40 years, polyvinyl chloride plastic (PVC) has become a major building material. Global vinyl production now totals over 30 million tons per year, the majority of which is directed to furnishings, children’s toys, protective clothing and artificial leather clothing and footwear. Let’s not forget Chlorine-based products are made from chlorine gas, the same gas used in chemical weapons.......
Boohoo Ascent
The rapid ascent of Boohoo from a Manchester‑based online retailer to one of the United Kingdom’s most influential fast‑fashion conglomerates is emblematic of a broader political‑economic transformation. Over the past two decades, the UK has embraced a deregulatory, financialised, and competition‑light policy environment that has enabled ultra‑fast‑fashion firms to expand aggressively while externalising social and environmental costs. Boohoo’s business model—characterised