
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...
Read morePICK 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...
Read moreTHE 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. ...
Read moreThe 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 ...
Read moreThe 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...
Read more2022 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...
Read moreMeet 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...
Read moreMeet 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 ...
Read moreRemarkable 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 ...
Read moreIntroducing: 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...
Read moreRemarkable 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...
Read moreWhy no fabric is perfect, but we balance what we use, for better consideration of people and planet. Something that we often struggle to articulat...
Read moreYou 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 ...
Read moreThe Action Plan is our quarterly take on protests to attend, solidarity actions to take, & the news on garment workers’ rights and sustainabili...
Read moreRemarkable 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...
Read moreContinuing 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 ...
Read moreMeet 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...
Read moreIntroducing: 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...
Read moreMeet 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...
Read moreDesign 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...
Read moreThe 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 ...
Read moreYou 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...
Read moreIn 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...
Read moreMona is a pillar of the local community in Bow, East London, a talented teacher and seamstress. She machine embroiders all of our best sellin...
Read moreRemarkable 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...
Read moreIWD 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 ...
Read moreWe 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...
Read moreWhen 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...
Read moreIn 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreAfter 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...
Read moreGifting 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 ...
Read moreOur 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 ...
Read more4 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...
Read moreWhy 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...
Read moreIn 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...
Read moreGifts 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...
Read moreWhich 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 ...
Read moreFast 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...
Read moreWhy 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...
Read moreFor this collection, we created a joyful patchwork of our archival prints. We wanted to celebrate seven years at the forefront of sustainable fashi...
Read moreLondon 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...
Read moreNew 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...
Read moreFor our latest campaign, we wanted to raise awareness of the deadly air pollution in our capital city. London suffers from traffic related pollutio...
Read moreHere 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...
Read moreLast 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...
Read moreThe 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 ...
Read moreMeet 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 ...
Read moreOur 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...
Read moreDon't despair, agitate - 4 steps to mitigate climate collapse Our thoughts on the latest Intergovernmental panel on climate change: IPCC’s 6th as...
Read moreA 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...
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