Born From A Twin Tension

Walking Protest ( WP ) was born out of a twin tension. A love for creative expression, textiles & colour - pulled between a passion for the environment, fair working conditions, transparent supply chains & giving back to nature what we take. 

We believe that education is the most important tool humans can utilise, that's why we have created garments in which instil our philosophy - to test the possibility of this model & share it with our audience. 

Fashion has the ability to destroy eco-systems, treat people unjustly, deplete soils & pollute water ways... But it also has the ability to restore ecosystems, give people safe & fair working conditions, enrich soils & protect water ways. 

 

We Believe Fashion Needs Some Radical Intervention

Let's be realistic, we are always going to 'need' clothes, they have become apart of our society's fabric (pun intended). At WP, we don't believe in eradicating luxuries we now have, rather re structuring & re shaping them to work alongside the Earth, not against it. 

Our collections are based off different eco-systems and what they can teach us about our collective impact, so that we may use them as teachers & guides for a more sustainable tomorrow. 

 

We're Not Perfect

At the end of the day, creating a product which isn't needed, isn't sustainable. The reason we decided to make clothing our vessel for consumer education is because we know how influential it can be to literally, wear your values. We also knew that in order to effectively curate solutions, strategies & new innovations to share with our audience - we needed to first try it for ourselves. Our focus lays in enriching ecosystems with the fibres we grow & the pieces we make, giving employment opportunities to people in a safe & fair environment and hopefully inspiring other businesses to do the same. Here's some goals we have to improve our impact, this list will always be full & forever keep growing:

• Unfortunately, we realised after production that a polyester thread was used to stitch together the elastic sides in our short's waistband. Having better communication with suppliers & ensuring our natural fibres mission is always met is on our list for improvements. 
• Having fully circular garments. We want our garments to break down at the end of their life - it's our goal to run an experiment with all our pieces, calculating the total days it takes for them to fully biodegrade & what impact this has on soils, surrounding crops & water ways ( good or bad )
• Meet all of our suppliers in person. It's so important to us to meet all of our suppliers in person & ensure they uphold our values and ones they present online. We also believe in the power of meeting people face to face, understanding the garment's journey & connecting with the land & hands that make them. 
• Support projects in conjunction with our current collection at the time's ecosystem. 
• Work only with suppliers who have grown fibres regeneratively

 

Where To Next? ...

This is just the start, fashion is our first industry that we want to rebirth. We believe systems as a whole need a shift. What's next? You'll have to stick along for the ride to find out.