ReMake World

ReMake is a transnational non-profit organization based in San Francisco that unites changemakers in the fight for fair pay and climate justice in the fashion and textile industry, based on the pursuit of rebuilding connections between us and the people who make our clothes. ReMake’s core values emphasize radical collaboration, accountability, education, and intersectionality.

ReMake works on mobilizing multiple campaigns, fighting for different bills impacting the fashion industry, and challenging the harmful labor and environmental practices that occur throughout the hidden labor chain of the global fashion and textile industry. Recently, they worked on a bill for the Garment Worker Protection Act that would enforce fair and equal pay for women in the fashion industry in California.

City

SanFrancisco

Country

United States

Region

N. America

Year of Creation

2015

Featured Project

The #NoNewClothes Challenge

#NoNewClothes is an initiative by ReMake. In this 90-day challenge, anyone who wants to participate is challenged to abstain from buying new clothes to help reduce their environmental impact. The #NoNewClothes Challenge encourages us to learn how to sew our own clothes, using what we already have at home by swapping, borrowing, and upcycling. Limiting the waste we each generate reduces the excess pollution caused by landfills, reduces our individual carbon footprint, and keeps money out of the pockets of exploitative companies which rely on opaque labor chains and extremely dangerous/inhumane labor practices.

#NoNewClothes

Resources

EXCLUSIVE Interview:

Interview with MAAP x ReMake World: 2025

Articles:

Birk, S. (2023). “Transforming more with less?: Exploring NGO Communication on Sustainable Anti-Consumption in the Context of Clothing,” JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1801097/FULLTEXT01.pdf.

Khan, Nabila N. (2022). “Combatting Wage Theft in Global Supply Chains: A Proposal for Transnational Wage Lien Laws”. LL.M. Essays & Theses. 10. https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/llm_essays_theses/10.

Montgomery, C. (2024). “International Fast Fashion: How China, Bangladesh, and Brazil Can Be Held Accountable for Allowing Slave like Labor Conditions”. Mich. St. Int’l L. Rev., 32, 361.

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