Sustainable Fashion Week

Sustainable Fashion Week is a week where there are lots of events in the UK for people to learn about sustainable fashion.

In 2026, Sustainable Fashion Week is from Saturday 26 September to Sunday 4 October.

Sustainable fashion is about designing, making and wearing clothes in ways that:

• are kinder to the planet
• treat workers fairly
• make sure animals are not treated badly.

Sustainable fashion can include thinking about:

• What are your clothes made of?

• How is the material for your clothes made or grown?

• Who made your clothes?

•  Do the people who make your clothes work in a safe place?

• How much energy do the factories that make your clothes use?

• Do the factories that make your clothes dump chemicals or other dangerous things into the rivers?

• How much do the people who make your clothes get paid?

There are lots of things you can do to help sustainable fashion.

You could:

• mend your clothes instead of throwing them away

• upcycle your clothes.

Upcycling is when you change something to make it better.

Examples of upcycling your clothes are:

• changing the buttons to make your clothes look different
• cutting the legs off jeans to make shorts
• turning a top with long sleeves into a top with short sleeves
• using the material from your clothes to make something new.

• wear the clothes you have instead of buying new clothes

• buy second hand clothes instead of buying new ones.

Mencap has shops where you can buy second hand clothes.

To find out more about our online and high street shops visit https://www.mencap.org.uk/what-we-do/mencap-shops. 

You can follow Mencap's shops on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/mencapshops/ 

For more information about sustainable fashion go to https://www.asinglethread.org/what-is-sustainable-fashion

For more information about Sustainable Fashion Week and to find events taking place near you go to https://www.asinglethread.org/sustainable-fashion-week