#slow fashion
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| Slow Fashion represents all things “eco”, “ethical” and “green” in one unified movement. Many thanks to www.notjustalabel.com |
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| Lia Lee Barcelona |
Slow Fashion is not your typical seasonal fashion trend, it is a
movement that is steadily gaining momentum and is likely here to stay.
Today’s mainstream fashion industry relies on globalised, mass
production where garments are transformed from the design stage to the
retail floor in only a few weeks. With retailers selling the latest
fashion trends at very low prices, consumers are easily swayed to
purchase more than they need. But this overconsumption comes with a
hidden price tag, and it is the environment and workers in the supply
chain that pay.
The fashion industry is contributing to today’s sustainability challenge in a number of ways. It currently uses a constant flow of natural resources to produce ‘Fast Fashion’ garments. In the way it operates, this industry is constantly contributing to the depletion of fossil fuels, used, for example, in textile & garment production and transportation. Fresh water reservoirs are also being increasingly diminished for cotton crop irrigation. The fashion industry is also introducing in a systematic way, and in ever-greater amounts, manmade compounds such as pesticides and synthetic fibres, which increases their persistent presence in nature. Read more, here:
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