Bags of Ethics Diwali Party 2023
We have been honoured and delighted to support the sustainability campaign for Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
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Bags of Art & Design
Discover this amazing partnership between Pentagram, Cass'Art and Bags of Ethics
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NewGen30: a new collaboration between Bags of Ethics and the British Fashion Council
2023 is a special year—it marks the 30th anniversary of the British Fashion Council (BFC) NEWGEN, a program that's been a launchpad for emerging fashion stars, including the iconic Alexander McQueen.
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British Fashion Council celebrating 30 years with a gorgeous new bag collection NewGen30 in collaboration with Bags of Ethics
Bags of Ethics teamed up with The British Fashion Council to develop a gorgeous designer bag collection
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Bags of Ethics and The Royal Forestry Society have launched The Green Tree Badge
Discover The Green Tree Badge, a landmark initiative by the Royal Forestry Society and Bags of Ethics
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2023 Christmas Gift Ideas
Christmas corporate and personalised gifts. Hampers and eco-packaging. Christmas decoration and products for brands
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Pledges to go single-use plastic-free by 2025: 26 brands to follow
We have listed for you 26 brands with a 2025 plastic-free pledge.
Sustainability & Supply Chain
The Truth About Recycled Fabrics and the easy fix
In recent years, brands have become increasingly aware of their environmental footprint and the necessity of its reduction. The Fashion industry in particular is the second largest polluting industry with a known problem of overproduction:
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Rixo “Choose to Reuse” collection in Sainsbury
Rixo has debuted a reusable shopper bag in collaboration with Bags of Ethics
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Fabric Digital Printing: when high quality fabric printing meets your creativity!
Fabric Digital Printing: when high quality fabric printing meets your creativity! What Are The Advantage Of a Digitally Printed Fabric ? There are several advantages to use a digitally printed fabric to manufacture your textile products.
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Despite Pledges to Reduce Single-use Plastic Consumption, a New Report Shows Disturbing Results
As consumers, we are all aware of the emergency to reduce our single-use plastic consumption. Many countries have taken steps to stop the use of single-use plastic packaging and bags to tackle plastic pollution and the climate crisis.
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Boots Viola x Giles Deacon x Bags of Ethics
Bags of Ethics x Boots by Giles Deacon Wash Bag Collection on ITV This Morning Christmas Gift Guide
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‘Bags of Ethics’ wins a Marie Claire’s UK Sustainability Award 2022
Supreme Creations’ Sustainable Label ‘Bags of Ethics’ has been awarded the Marie Claire UK Sustainability Award 2022 for Best Supply Chain in Fashion.
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Bags Of Ethics Held A Women In Sustainability Networking Event And We Were There!
In the 26.07.2022, in partnership with Grosvenor Square in London. Bags of Ethics welcomed some amazing women all successful in a variety of backgrounds: fashion, journalism, business, design, sustainability, and retail.
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Bags Of Ethics And Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
We have been honoured and delighted to support the sustainability campaign for Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Sustainability & Supply Chain
A System that Gives Back to the Earth: Water Management at Supreme Creations
It is no secret that historically the textile industry has made some missteps when it comes to sustainability. At Supreme, we want to change this narrative, we want to be the leaders in an industry that supports the environments we work in and the communities we work with.
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2021: A year in manufacturing sustainable bags, make-up bags and packaging
2021 was a year of innovative and original projects as Supreme Creations teamed up with great companies with big visions to bring their concepts to life.
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5 vegan silk alternatives for cruelty-free luxury
Silk is a luxurious fabric that is known for its soft handle and sheer finish. However, it is often criticised by vegans and animal rights activists because of its origins.
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Why choose jute as an alternative for your shopping bags?
Personalised jute bags are the perfect representative to show you care about sustainability and plastic free packaging. We’ve done our research and want to share how you can use jute instead of cotton to create a reusable and sustainable bag for your company.
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Plastic free packaging ideas for your business
This plastic free July, the team want to showcase some the best projects that we’ve worked on this year which prove that we are consciously thinking about making the planet a better place.
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Inks And Dyes Used In The Textile Industry: Why Choosing Water Based Inks And Dyes Is A Necessity
Colour is a catalyst in sales success within the fashion industry. The first thing consumers notice about a piece of clothing before the fabric or size is the colour of the garment. The brightness or shade of clothing as well as how it might suit their complexion and their personal preferences. However, colour dyes in clothing is known to be harmful to the environment and the people in the surrounding areas close to factories.
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Cost Effective Design And Products Tips: Sustainable Packaging And Bags
You want to create a personalized bag for a promotional campaign or giveaway but you are on a tight budget? You wish to create and sell a product that will be perfect while paying attention to the selling price and your profits?
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CASE STUDY: Non di Solo Pane – food charity shopping bag project
We helped Non di Solo Pane, an Italian food bank, in their charitable effort.
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Recycling versus Compostable in the textile industry: Know your basics
As fashion trends are changing so rapidly, people are buying more quickly and frequently. fashion has become the downfall of clothing mass-production around the world leading to millions of clothes thrown away yearly.
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Case Study: We Wear Boost-helping Woman Gain Confidence
Earlier this year, Supreme Creations worked with We Wear Boost breaking the taboo of losing a breast to cancer, We Wear Boost aim to raise awareness about breast cancer and promote female empowerment with an affordable and colourful external prosthesis.
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How Saving On Delivery Costs Can Also Benefit The Planet!
As a sustainable and ethical manufacturer, we are deeply concerned about climate change and how we can, as a member of a community, incite our suppliers, partners, and clients to be involved into saving our planet.
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Ocean Conservation Trust – ReMEDIES project Case Study
We produce bags and packaging for a whole variety of businesses, but love working on projects that help give something back to our planet. A lot of brands and businesses that we work with are very environmentally focused, and the Ocean Conservation Trust is one of those.
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Case Study: Opale Bijoux St Valentine Tote
Their beautiful jewels are handmade in Paris, with sustainability at the core of everything that they do. They produce to order/bespoke to avoid wasting stock.
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Supreme Creations x Chefs in Schools
Chefs in schools is a charitable initiative that aims to improve the health of children through better school food and education. While writing the School Food Plan, Henry Dimbleby (a governor at his children’s state primary, Gayhurst Community School in Hackney) posted a tweet asking whether anyone would be interested in taking over the school kitchen.
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Client Showcase – ARCAT
As part of a new series, we want to showcase some of the wonderful projects that our Supreme Creations clients and community are a part of.
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The Chinese Cotton Scandal
China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields, as reported by the BCC.
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Decoding Sustainability Jargon
At Supreme Creations we know that sustainability can be confusing. There is a lot of jargon thrown about, and it’s hard to know what the hell anyone is on about. We thought it would be helpful to make a glossary of these new sustainability terms, and define them in an easy, simple way so that you may use this as a reference point when talking, reading, or thinking about sustainability.
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Best Reusable Face Mask
Face coverings have quickly become an everyday essential, but our research shows that the type you buy matters, as they vary significantly in effectiveness.
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Green Businesses
It seems today the trending topic in the business world is ‘going green’. These moves by big businesses to try and cut carbon emissions, use greener energy, and improve their effect on the environment, are all a positive movement towards a greener future. However, at a time when ‘green’ is in, we want to know how many of these claims are ‘greenwashing’, painting businesses in a positive light whereas in reality their practices are far from sustainable.
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Cannes Lions tote bags are all the rage at the global festival for the creative industry in the South of France
The largest global event for the creative communications industry has committed to a reusable bag agenda.
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Fibre Focus: Cotton
Choosing a fibre from a design perspective can be challenging enough, but the fibre that a fabric is made from also has numerous environmental and social impacts. It can be difficult to work out the best option when selecting a fibre.
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4 Reasons To Carry A Reusable Tote With You At All Times
Obviously we’re biased, but we with totes are great – and if you don’t already then you soon will! They’re reusable, they’re plastic free, they look so much nicer than carrying a supermarket bag around…the list goes on. Read below for why you should always have one.
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So-Called “Biodegradable” Plastic Bags Shown to Survive 3yrs at Sea and in Soil
Guardian : “Bag for life” article
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Simple patterns to print on your tote bags
A spot repeat pattern is can give surprisingly varied prints when small changes are made. Small dots give a traditional and uniform appearance. Patterns like this are great for conventional and classic designs, or for printed inner linings. Use a half-drop repeat for a more directional print. Dense coloured spots on a white background give fabric a fresh look that is perfect for all purposes – from kitchen to cosmetics.
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Fibre Focus: Banana
Choosing a fibre from a design perspective can be challenging enough, but the fibre that a fabric is made from also has numerous environmental and social impacts. It can be difficult to work out the best option when selecting a fibre. Introducing Fibre Focus, our fabric blog that breaks down the various impacts of a fibre from an environmental, social justice and design standpoint. It is important to also consider any potential impacts a fibre might have if it were to become more popular.
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10 Ways to Use Your Reusable Tote Bag
Use your tote bag to easily transport your food and drink to work. Tote bags are superior in strength compared to plastic and paper bags so you can make sure your lunch always arrives at work in one piece. If you are, however having a clumsy day, spillages can be removed easily by simply putting your tote in the washing machine – another reason totes are better than plastic and paper.
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Fibre Focus: Fish Leather
Choosing a fibre from a design perspective can be challenging enough, but the fibre that a fabric is made from also has numerous environmental and social impacts. It can be difficult to work out the best option when selecting a fibre.
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Fibre Focus: Pineapple
Choosing a fibre from a design perspective can be challenging enough, but the fibre that a fabric is made from also has numerous environmental and social impacts. It can be difficult to work out the best option when selecting a fibre.
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Fibre Focus: Lyocell
Choosing a fibre from a design perspective can be challenging enough, but the fibre that a fabric is made from has numerous environmental and social impacts. It can be difficult to work out the best option when selecting a fibre.
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London Fashion Week 2019
We are delighted to have produced the bags for London Fashion Week again. This year’s collaboration showcased striking prints by the up-and-coming, London-based designer, Richard Quinn.
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Tree-planting scheme to reduce our carbon footprint
At Supreme Creations/Bags of Ethics we are always striving to promote environmental sustainability and minimise our environmental impact wherever possible.
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Fibre Focus: Flax (linen)
Choosing a fibre from a design perspective can be challenging enough, but the fibre that a fabric is made from has numerous environmental and social impacts. It can be difficult to work out the best option when selecting a fibre.
Introducing Fibre Focus, our fabric blog that breaks down the various impacts of a fibre from an environmental, social justice and design standpoint. It is important to also consider any potential impacts a fibre might have if it were to become more popular.
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Let’s Talk About Econyl
Anthropogenic pollution is becoming a serious and unavoidable issue. Our “throw away” culture is without doubt causing profound environmental degradation and if we are to stem the impacts we are having on the natural world, we must consume and produce more responsibly.
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Fibre Focus Hemp
Choosing a fibre from a design perspective can be challenging enough, but the fibre that a fabric is made from also has numerous environmental and social impacts. It can be difficult to work out the best option when selecting a fibre.
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Are any of us truly sustainable?
It is fashionable to state you are a sustainable and ethical brand but what does that really mean?
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Ethical Manufacturing
An ethical business ensure that all parts of their production is safe, efficient, and focuses on the health of workers.
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Alternative Eco-Friendly Materials
Cotton was a primary fabric for the production of all types of products such as bags and clothing.
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Designs for Tote Bags
A tote bag’s design should be eye-catching and unique, but also be easy to pair with a variety of outfits. Black and white is a classic colourway for almost any textile product, which drew me to it. To make sure that the bag stands out amidst the black and white, geometric patterns are very interesting to bring a ‘pop’ that makes a tote bag different to others.
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Tesco 5p levy news 2017
Move over plastic- Tesco to trial out removing ALL 5p plastic bags from stores in favour of reusable bags for life.
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BBC News : The rise of father and daughter businesses
Successful chief executive Smruti Sriram has one strict rule at work - she never addresses her chairman and Founder of Supreme Creations, Dr Sri Ram, as "daddy", "dad", or "father".
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Fibre Focus: Bamboo
Choosing a fibre from a design perspective can be challenging enough, but the fibre that a fabric is made from has numerous environmental and social impacts...
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Press Release from the Guardian: Bags for Life
Dr Sri Ram, the "Bag for life" manufacturer received an environmental award from HMR King Charles III Business in the Community charity.