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PICK YOUR OWN PRINT: A Fundraiser

After a brief pause, Birdsong are back.  Fashion remains one of the most damaging industries globally, with an extraordinary waste of materials, ex...

THE LAST HURRAH 

THE LAST HURRAH    It is with a heavy heart I have to let you know that Birdsong as you know it will be shutting our doors at the end of January. ...

The Ultimate Ethical & Sustainable Gift Guide

At Birdsong, we believe the festive season should be joyful. That’s why we’ve created an easy way to buy consciously created gifts that are good ...

The Perfect Storm - Birdsong Open Letter

Hi, we’re Birdsong, one of the UK’s leading fashion social enterprises. Since 2014 we’ve been valuing charities and grassroots communities. We crea...

2022 Transparent Friday Manifesto

 Every year, instead of participating in Black Friday we run our award-winning #TransparentFriday campaign and remind you of our Manifesto. ⁠We’re...

Meet the Artist: Emily Rose Parris

Tell us about yourself  I'm a photographer and arts educator from Kent. I love working with people and exploring arts education, adapting my teachi...

Meet the Artist: Natalia Bagniewska

Tell us about yourself  I am a designer and artist living in London. A lot of my inspiration comes from my Polish heritage, its folk art is a huge ...

Remarkable Women: Charlotte Buckley, Director of Hackney Migrant Centre

We're delighted to collaborate with Hackney Migrant Centre to help fundraise for their Christmas Appeal.  Hackney Migrant Centre (HMC) delivers ...

Introducing: Dima and our Ukrainian Fundraiser Collaboration

When Dima Deinega approached us with an idea to create a product together to help fundraise for Ukraine, we jumped at the chance. The result is our...

Remarkable Women: Our collaboration with Barbara Frankie Ryan

Tell us about yourself  I’m a Londoner living in Amsterdam for the last seven years, working as an art director. I love to make things from big-sca...

A balanced textile diet.

Why no fabric is perfect, but we balance what we use, for better consideration of people and planet. Something that we often struggle to articulat...

8 years of Birdsong

You may know the story: Birdsong was founded on the belief that women have always found creative ways to make a statement with what they wear, and ...

The Action Plan: Q3 2022

The Action Plan is our quarterly take on protests to attend, solidarity actions to take, & the news on garment workers’ rights and sustainabili...

Remarkable Women: Judith P. Raynault

Next up in our Remarkable Women series, we had a chat with Judith P Raynault, Graphic Designer & Illustrator.  During lockdown Raynault featur...

Remarkable Women: Emma Bonar

Continuing our Remarkable Women series, we got the chance to sit down with Emma Bonar, Owner of 69B Boutique.  69b Boutique has been a feature of ...

Meet the Artist: James Alfred Hart

An old time friend of the brand, we’ve brought back artist James Alfred Hart for another collaboration: birdsong x JAH. We worked with James to pri...

Introducing: the Birdsong Archive

At Birdsong, we believe shopping should be joyful. That’s why we created a beautiful way to buy made-for-you clothes that are good for makers and g...

Meet The Makers: Stitches in Time

Putting person to an item of your clothing can be so important; it gives your clothes character, and lets you know that it was a labour of love. W...

Design inspiration: The Herbalist Dress

For our May 2022 drop we’ve designed a not-so-everyday staple. The Herbalist dress is about looking to the natural world to provide solace in a co...

Fabric Deep Dive: Green Dress

The fabric for our Green Dress is sustainably sourced TENCEL™ Lyocell, and the white-on-green floral motif is digitally printed here in the UK. If ...

The return of THAT dress⁠

You asked, and we listened. For this April only, we're rereleasing 100 of our bestselling SS20 Emerald Green Printed Maxi Dress.  A buttery soft w...

In celebration of radical mothers.

Mother’s Day is, as with many things, something we celebrate every year without ever being fully aware of its radical history. It turns out, back i...

Meet The Makers: Mona

  Mona is a pillar of the local community in Bow, East London, a talented teacher and seamstress. She machine embroiders all of our best sellin...

Remarkable Women: Mursal Hedayat

Mursal Hedayat is an old friend-friend-turned Board Member of Birdsong’s. Having done the same post grad, we met Mursal before she became the foun...

IWD 2022: A Letter to Fast Fashion

Fashion is a Feminist Issue This International Women’s Day, we want to speak directly to the brands that are the problem. They cash in on the hype ...

Why Made-to-Order?

We make almost all our clothes to order, producing only what is truly wanted. Here’s why: Less Waste Made-to-order is better for the planet, and b...

What Does Ethical Even Mean?

When it comes to sustainability, there are a lot of buzzwords. And there’s nothing we at Birdsong love more than breaking down a buzzword, explaini...

New Year's Revolution

In 2022, it’s understandable that climate change is at the forefront of all our minds. It can be tricky because we know that personal responsibilit...

The Action Plan from Birdsong: Q1 2022

To kick off the new year, we’ve assembled our January Action Guide: a handy list of all the things we’re keeping a close eye on, taking action on a...

Raise Wages: Revisited

After the blur of Black Friday (and our own Transparent Friday), we thought it would be a good idea to revisit one of our 2021 t-shirt campaigns: R...

Gifting Fashion More Sustainably This Christmas

Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, a time for family, friends and food. But it can also be the most wasteful time of the year for a ...

Our 2021 Transparent Friday Manifesto

We hate Black Friday. We feel like it devalues the hard work and thought that goes into each and every garment put on planet earth.  In the run up ...

4 Reasons Why Fast Fashion Is Always A Bad Gift

Christmas is swiftly approaching, and many of us will classically leave our Christmas shopping until the very last minute. It's always stressful bu...

Why is Sustainable Fashion Important: Pros and Cons of Sustainable Fashion

Why is sustainable fashion important? There are so many conversations happening right now about the future of the planet, the disasters that we mig...

COP26 & rewiring the system

In time for the Global Day of Climate Justice this Saturday 6th November, we wanted to take the time to acknowledge the work being done from the gr...

Gifts that give: The Ethical & Sustainable Gift Edit

Choose gifts this season that make the world a little kinder. All Birdsong products are made for fair wages, in ethical conditions, which means eve...

Which Clothing Brands Are Ethical?

At Birdsong, we are aware of how damaging the fashion industry can be. Globally, big name brands are still using sweatshops, Nike, Adidas and ASOS ...

Fast Fashion 101: What Are Fast Fashion Brands?

From colonialism, extraction of resources, and widespread workers' struggles, the fashion  industry as it stands is in direct conflict with our pla...

Why We’re Voted the Best Ethical Women's Clothing Brand in the UK

At Birdsong, it has always been our goal to stay as green as possible, whilst maintaining our ethical status. We design clothes for remarkable wome...

AW21: Harvest Moon collection

For this collection, we created a joyful patchwork of our archival prints. We wanted to celebrate seven years at the forefront of sustainable fashi...

London Challenge Poverty Week....and why it’s necessary

What is London Challenge Poverty week? London Challenge Poverty Week has been running annually since 2018 and is held every year in the week around...

New Jewellery, Ethically Made for Fair Wages

At the beginning of September, our 2021 Jewellery Collection launched. If you missed it, here’s a quick recap. Play mix and match with our charms i...

Pollution? No Thank You!

For our latest campaign, we wanted to raise awareness of the deadly air pollution in our capital city. London suffers from traffic related pollutio...

Raise Wages Campaign

Here at Birdsong, we believe that making good clothes is reliant on good people, good working conditions, and good pay. We know that our garments c...

New Website, Same Birdsong

Last week we launched our new website with a lunch event. We invited some friends down to our studio, to try on some pieces from our new collection...

The Fashion Industry, as it stands

(from our 2021 Impact Report) From colonialism, extraction of resources, and widespread workers' struggles, the fashion industry, as it stands, is ...

Meet Our Makers: Liz & Georgie

The women who make the clothes we see on the high street everyday are hidden in the fashion supply chain, making it near impossible to track where ...

Behind the Scenes: SS21

Our new collection is a riot of colour. Made in super soft, sustainably sourced fabric, you can pick-n-mix cuts in different Fruit Salad hues. Fril...

Don't despair, agitate

 Don't despair, agitate - 4 steps to mitigate climate collapse Our thoughts on the latest Intergovernmental panel on climate change: IPCC’s 6th as...

A Brief History of the Statement T-shirt

At Birdsong, we make statement t-shirts and sweatshirts that are ethical and sustainable. ⁠⁠Our statement tees have been our bestsellers and cult f...