Green Guilt: How Fast is Fashion Becoming Sustainable? Not Fast Enough!
Over 90% of the emissions for apparel come from four activities: dyeing and finishing, fabric preparation, yarn preparation, and fiber production. – Quantis At the rate we consume fashion, we buy clothes to throw away! Today’s fashion industry is plagued by over-consumption, all driven by speed and disposability – fast fashion. In the last two […]
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Our Loudest Vote Is Our Wallet | Consumers Have Abandoned the Same Old Stuff
SALE! SALE! SALE! Fast fashion made in mass is at a COST to the retailer, industry, and the planet. Retailers and the fashion industry WAKE-UP! Consumers are hungry for individualism and looking for up and coming brands with an innovative spirit and are conscious about the environment. Today we see the “SAME stuff, SAFE stuff, […]
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Slow Fashion, The Anti-Trend
I’m always wishing that the clothing industry might find its way toward a less petrochemical line of production, says Andre Walker, designer. i-D magazine, Steve Salter As the founder and principal of EDGE, I concur with Andre’s statement and see that Americans have become too obsessed with fast, cheap fashion that’s a continual stream of […]
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