GLOBAL GARBS is a (digital) sustainable fashion magazine meant to inspire + educate the conscious consumer.

If you’ve been following Global Garbs the blog, you know that it’s evolved over time from a generic trend-focused blog to highlighting emerging designers and brands in the sustainable fashion industry. You can read more about this journey here. 

The goal now with Global Garbs the Magazine is simply to expand beyond the blog. In a perfect world, we could pick up a magazine with curated products from small businesses produced ethically and made sustainably, but that’s just not the case. In fact, there aren’t many publications at all that exists of this nature. 

In each publication, our goal is for you to be both inspired and educated. There will be product and trend suggestions just like any typical fashion magazine, but you’ll also learn more about the sustainable fashion industry from leaders in the field and the creators who are actually building their own brands.  And as always, we will continue to shine a light on the small brands making a change in this evolving world of sustainability. Whether it’s learning more about apparel made in ethical factories or clean beauty products, the goal is to be inspired by these stories and understand more about how these industries can create change and also the role we play as consumers.  

While the main focus will always be fashion, you can also expect some new topics in the future such as veganism, zero-waste, minimalism, and general conscious living.

Fashion and beauty are something that touches every woman and they can oftentimes be the starting point for environmentalism.

Once you begin to understand where your clothing is made, and how it’s made, you can easily go down the rabbit hole of learning more about every industry and its impact on people and the planet. This is the goal of Global Garbs.

Whether you are just starting out on your sustainable journey or have been living eco-friendly for decades, we hope this magazine can bring some new conscious insights to your everyday life.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

If you had asked me ten years ago what sustainable fashion was, I probably would have answered somewhere along the lines of, “clothing made from hemp or linen?” Or, “don’t people who wear sustainable fashion wear khaki pants and Birkenstocks?” Yes, this is a terrible stereotype. But if you remember, not too long ago we had this same stereotype surrounding people who ate all organic foods, and had their own vegetable gardens. Now, I pretty much buy all organic and also aspire to have my own vegetable garden (one day it will happen 🙏 ).

Having worked in the fashion industry for over a decade, I had acknowledged the waste and questionable labor standards with factories we had worked with, but it wasn’t until Rana Plaza that something started to shift within me. Many of us who work in the fashion industry experience this when we realize how toxic this industry is for both the environment and humanity. I knew that I (most likely) wouldn’t spend the rest of my career working in an industry that was so harmful to some of the world’s most vulnerable countries.

After transitioning from just a “regular” fashion blog in 2017 to focusing more on sustainability, I started to be inspired once again. I love supporting brands and influencers who are truly trying to make a change in this industry. I see these change-makers as leaders in our field and while I know that a sustainable fashion magazine isn’t necessarily going to change the world, I know that the people I am highlighting are. I also know that in order to create real change we have to first change our mindset and perspective. We have to rethink entire systems and demand large companies do better. But we have to work together in order to create this change. So thank you for coming on this journey with me.

Cheers to you and a more sustainable future!