Could you tell us about your work in the fashion space, and your background in integrating sustainability into fashion?
My design practice draws inspiration from reflections on socio-cultural constructs like gender and sexuality. My present work explores the intersection between gender and clothing in which I interrogate and cirque the construct and performativity of gender—in…
by Indigo Jones Peers and professors alike at the International Relations department of St Andrews University in Scotland thought I was insane, vapid, or both. They were astounded that I would be writing about the environmental injustices of fashion for my dissertation. Their disbelief only further proved my point: fashion is trivialized, considered too…
The New Fashion Initiative regularly invites a leading voice in the sustainable and ethical fashion revolution to answer 17 questions about themselves, both personal and professional. It’s our green and socially conscious spin on Vanity Fair‘s beloved Proust Questionnaire. This month, our interviewee is Hannah Ringwald.
Combining her strategic mindset with creativity, Hannah has been deeply involved in…
As we reach the end of this series, I am quite excited to go out with a bang! Reader, this is your final call to action: it is the call to take climate action. United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13, Climate Action, aims to take urgent measures to combat climate change and its impacts.
My take…
For the fashion industry, constant consumption and endless trends are the norm. This cycle is not sustainable nor is it ethical. However, big, bad brands polluting the planet and mistreating garment workers are not only to blame for sustainability and ethics issues visible in the industry—these concerns are also brought about by consumers who drive…
I am a member of the fashion industry as a consumer, style enthusiast, student, and researcher; it is safe to say fashion is almost always on my mind. As I contemplated my beloved fashion industry’s environmental and social conundrums, I couldn't help but wonder...What is the fashion industry doing to help itself?
In my two years…
My torrid affair with fashion has spanned years, 25 years to be exact. In college, I wrote a monthly fashion column – it was pretty much the low down on the latest trends and my take on the latest fashion shows; London Fashion Week was my jam. I shopped at ASOS and Zara weekly. It…
As a nearly $3 trillion industry, the fashion industry harbors much opportunity for a profitable transition to more sustainable practices.
Every year, $460 billion worth of usable clothing is sent to landfills in the US. An up-and-coming industry that is trying to remedy this problem is the online rental clothing industry.
How are the current systems that produce, use, recover, and process plastics affecting the environment and the economy? What are our alternatives?
While the ready-made garment sector in India employs 12.9 million people, one issue that impacts approximately 80 percent of garment workers often goes unaddressed: menstruation. Factories contracted by Western fast fashion brands often limit access to menstrual hygiene in their facilities in order to prevent decreased productivity. This lack of hygiene infrastructure is coupled with…