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Mar 28, 2021 · From Burberry to Versace, the ocean’s presence in fashion offers refuge, escapism, resources and a way to grapple with uncertainty. Vogue takes a closer look at how ocean-inspired fashion goes deeper than the surface.
Approximately 20% of global freshwater pollution is caused by the fashion industry. When manufactured, washed, worn, and disposed of, synthetic clothes release plastic microfibers that pose risks to animal and human health in the environment.
- Fashion’s Environmental Impacts
- Fashion’s Social Impacts
- How Can Fashion Be More Sustainable?
- Beyond Sustainability
- The Need For Transparency
- What Consumers Can Do
Fashion is responsible for 10 percent of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and 20 percent of global wastewater, and uses more energy than the aviation and shipping sectors combined.
Because it must be cheap, fast fashion is dependent on the exploited labor force in developing countries where regulations are lax. Workers are underpaid, overworked, and exposed to dangerous conditions or health hazards; many are underage. Of the 75 million factory workers around the world, it’s estimated that only two percentearn a living wage. T...
As opposed to our current linear model of fashion production with environmental impacts at every stage, where resources are consumed, turned into a product, then discarded, sustainable fashion minimizes its environmental impact, and even aims to benefit the environment. The goal is a circular fashion industry where waste and pollution are eliminate...
Schiros maintains that making materials in collaboration with traditional artisans and Indigenous communities can produce results that address environmental, social and economic facets of sustainability. She led a series of natural dye workshops with women tie dyers in Kindia, Guinea, and artisans in Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire, and collaborated wi...
In order to ensure fashion’s sustainability and achieve a circular fashion industry, it must be possible to track all the elements of a product from the materials used, chemicals added, production practices, and product use, to the end of life, as well as the social and environmental conditions under which it was made. Blockchain technology can do ...
The key to making fashion sustainable is the consumer. If we want the fashion industry to adopt more sustainable practices, then as shoppers, we need to care about how clothing is made and where it comes from, and demonstrate these concerns through what we buy. The market will then respond. We can also reduce waste through how we care for our cloth...
Mar 13, 2019 · Fashion today is about obsession with outward image and appearance. Rarely do we as consumers consider what’s on the inside: the hundreds of thousands of fibres that make up our clothing contribute an estimated 9% of microplastic losses into our oceans.
In honor of UN World Oceans Day, this article looks at how fashion and clothing pollutes the oceans, and some small changes we can make as consumers, fashion industry professionals and as retailers to have a positive impact.
Building a more sustainable fashion industry and curbing its destructive impact on our oceans will entail governments, brands, retailers and citizens all taking action together to help bring about the systemic change needed to end the exploitation of our planet.
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The insights offer a snapshot of the fashion industry’s main pressures on the environment and, more specifically, on marine ecosystems, and provides a clear view of sustainable best practices along the value chain.
