CELEBRATING LONDON FASHION WEEK

On Thursday night #TOGETHERBAND held a party at The Conduit London to celebrate our collaboration with Models 1 to help raise awareness for the UN's 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Guests included CEO of the British Fashion Council, Caroline Rush; chef and author, Jasmine Hemsley; and actress Chantel Riley, who danced to a set by DJ FEMME.

So can fashion week help with the Global Goals? These 17 facts demonstrate how.

GOAL 1: NO POVERTY

14 million garment workers are paid only just over the minimum wage which itself is less than half a living wage (source: Common Objective)

GOAL 2: ZERO HUNGER

Non-organic crops like cotton degrade soil, which could lead to a 30% reduction in food production over the next 20-50 years (source: Sustain Your Style)

GOAL 3: GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

23% of all chemicals produced worldwide are used for the textile industry (source: Sustain Your Style)

GOAL 4: QUALITY EDUCATION

11% of the world's children can't go to school because of interference from work, many in the textiles industry (source: International Labour Organisation)

GOAL 5: GENDER EQUALITY

80% of garment workers are women (source: Sustainable Fashion Matters)

GOAL 6: CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION

It takes 2,720 litres of water (as much as you'd drink in 3 years) to make one T-shirt (source: Refinery 29)

GOAL 7: AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY

It has been estimated that the global production of textiles emits more greenhouse gases than international aviation and shipping combined (source: United Nations Climate Change)

GOAL 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

$127.7 billion worth of garments are at risk of including modern slavery in their supply chain (source: Walk Free Foundation)

GOAL 9: INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, INFRASTRUCTURE

In 2013, The Rana Plaza complex collapsed as a result of a structural failure, killing 1,138 people (source: Vogue)

GOAL 10: REDUCED INEQUALITIES

The average annual wage of a US-based CEO is equivalent to about 16,000 Bangladesh workers' wages (source: CleanClothes.org)

GOAL 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

In the USA, 10.5 million tonnes of clothing is sent to landfill every year (source: Waste & Resources Action Programme)

GOAL 12: RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION

Synthetic fibres such as polyester are used in 72% of our clothing and can take 200 years to decompose (source: Sustain Your Style)

GOAL 13: CLIMATE ACTION

400% more carbon emissions are produced if we wear a garment 5 times instead of 50 (source: Sustain Your Style)

GOAL 14: LIFE BELOW WATER

Textiles accounts for 34.8% of global micro-plastic pollution - they are released every time we wash a synthetic garment (source: Fashion Revolution)

GOAL 15: LIFE ON LAND

90% of Mongolia's surface is facing the threat of desertification, principally due to the breeding of cashmere goats (source: Sustain Your Style)

GOAL 16: PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

50% of slavery victims are in labour slavery, like manufacturing (source: AntiSlavery.org)

GOAL 17: PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

68% of consumers think that government has a role to play in ensuring that clothing is sustainably produced (source: Fashion Revolution)