#NoMoreFastFashion

For this piece, I turned what I thought was a good summary of my Fashion Waste in Landfills quad into a hashtag. Hashtags float around so easily and are so popular on social media I felt it would be an easy way to spread the word. Social media is constantly expanding and revamping, I felt the best way to reach people was not through a flier on a billboard or printed on a shirt (though how ironic would that be) but on the internet amongst the memers and the instagrammers and the lurkers.

Image Cited

California Academy of Sciences. Justin Richie. 2014.

Fashion Waste in Landfills 4.0

Resources and How to Help- How to be part of the solution with some links to get started

Fashion Waste in Landfills 3.0

Why is This Happening?- Defining Fast Fashion and explaining how it contributes to fashion waste.

Fashion Waste in Landfills 2.0

Dahom, Gloria Gilbere. Consumers Beware: Toxins Lurking in Your Clothing! http://www.totalhealthmagazine.com/Allergies-Asthma/Consumers-Beware-Toxins-Lurking-in-Your-Clothing.html. December 6th 2016.

What is The Harm?- Why all the fashion waste is bad for the environment and how it is a problem.

Fashion Waste in Landfills 1.0

The Lowdown- What are landfills and just how much is fashion involved in what goes in them?

Sustainable Survey

Introduction

In my first post, “Why I, and Others, Should Care About Sustainable Fashion,” I challenged New York Times author Dana Thomas on her statement that changing the way the fashion industry works environmentally, rested on my generation’s shoulders. I said that I believed this was an issue for all ages to care about. So I decided to put that concept to the test. Do only people my age care about this topic? Or am I writing about something my parents can appreciate as well.

Money or Morals? Environmental Manufacturing in the Fashion Industry

I tend to imagine the fashion industry as cutthroat. People always tell me it’s a competitive business, wish me luck in finding a job in the field, and wish me even more luck in getting a livable income. (Which for the record, are a things you should never say to a college student). To me, there two sides of the coin: Money and Morals.

Eco Fashion World: Hit or Miss

Eco Fashion World is a website dedicated to informing the general public about sustainable fashion, while also showing ways to be sustainable, not just know sustainable. But while at first glance the website seems fine and a totally trustworthy source, a closer look shows that this website, isn’t as great as it appears to be. The following will show how Eco Fashion World is both reliable, and unreliable, and how those tally up in the end.

The Mysterious Mr. Zeitz: A Rhetorical Analysis

Fashion and Products for a Sustainable World by New York Times Author Suzy Menkes talks about (or attempts to)  just what you’d expect. Fashion and Products for a Sustainable World. However her efforts in getting the message of environmentalism across are rather lacking.

Why I, and Others, Should Care About Sustainable Fashion

Fashion is costly. To our wallets, to our self-esteem, and to our planet. Green, eco-friendly, environmental fashion should be a main priority when manufacturing, buying, and disposing clothes. In a nutshell, we are talking about Sustainable Fashion: clothing with a low-carbon footprint. And this issue is looking beyond fur coats and leather goods and animal rights, but also at the harvesting of natural resources, pollution, and the landfills. Because when you hear the phrase, “Pain is Beauty,” it is not supposed to be talking about the Earth.