Designers New Fashion Trend: Sustainability

     As of the February New York Fashion week this year, it has been made clear that a big new trend is starting with designers: sustainability. This is extremely important because a recent report on how much carbon the industry emits each year for travel related to New York's fashion week alone showed that it is responsible for a whopping 37% of the 241,000 tons of carbon emitted annually. The problem however has proven not to be at the fault of the events, but it is at the fault of the industry as a whole. There are two Fashion Weeks each year, one in February and one in September, and they were originally designed to give fashion editors and buyers a chance to preview the collections from the designers that were to-be-released six months later. As the industry has changed over the years that original system has become outdated. Production of clothing globally has sped up a lot in recent years and has been shown to have doubled since the year 2000. This means that companies are able to produce rip-offs of designers collections from Fashion Week before they can be officially released, thus speeding up the need to produce clothing for said designers. The fashion industry now produces 150 billion items per year which is 20 per human being on the planet earth. The industry is responsible for 10% of the worlds carbon emissions and is also responsible for a huge amount of waste as the average number of times a garment is worn before it is thrown away has dropped by over a third. This makes Fashion Week itself responsible for a large amount of waste due to the attention it helps draw into the industry. Because of that, the fact that the designers themselves have decided to start making changes in their clothing lines in an effort to help the earth stand out and feel even more meaningful to the planet.

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  1. Henry QuillinMarch 27, 2020 at 11:23 AM

    It really is scary how much the Earth is being polluted by the fashion industry. After reading Travels of a T Shirt I think we all have a better understanding of how detrimental this industry really is. It is good that designers are trying to make changes in their clothing lines to lessen the impact of their industry, however, it begs the question if they are actually doing it for the benifit of the Earth of if they are doing it simply for the publicity. Also, how exactly are they making changes and will it actually have any impact?

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