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[Article Round Up] RALPH LAUREN AND “FASHION 15” TARGETED FOR PLANTATION RAYON #fashion #ethicalfashion #EnvironmentalImpact

28 Friday Aug 2015

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Source: https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/ecoholic/ralph-lauren-and-fashion-15-targeted-for-plantation-rayon/

NewsECO-RalphLaurenNN“Nice shirt? Is that rayon? A report released earlier this month by Rainforest Action Network (RNA) connects tree-pulp-based fabrics like rayon, viscose and modal to decades of human rights abuses. The org isn’t calling out abuses at the factory level, but on the front lines of the plantations from which rayon suppliers get the pulp to make their silky fibres. It’s targeting Ralph Lauren and “the Fashion 15” to clean up their supply chains and make sure they’re free of deforestation and rights violations. 

Thanks to the massive worldwide expansion of mostly eucalyptus and acacia mega-plantations for fabric pulp, indigenous community forests are getting bulldozed, and “illegal land-grabbing is rampant,” says RAN. In its latest report, the San Fran-based org singles out Indonesia’s Toba Pulp Lestari for forcibly seizing land in northern Sumatra to clear-cut forests and make way for industrial pulp plantations.

RAN senior forest campaigner Brihannala Morgan says some brands, like H&M, Patagonia and Stella McCartney, are taking action to push for deforestation-free fabrics, but Ralph Lauren and the Fashion 15, including Gaiam, Guess, Victoria’s Secret, Forever 21, Abercrombie & Fitch and many big-name luxury brands, are lagging behind. 

“Every year, tens of millions of trees are turned into clothing through the use of forest fabrics like rayon and viscose,” says Morgan. “As one of the biggest fashion brands in the world, Ralph Lauren has the ability and resources to ensure that human rights abuses and forest destruction won’t be a part of their next collection.””

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[Repost] Turning Fashion Week Green #ethicalfashion #fashion #eco #sustainable

17 Monday Aug 2015

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Repost from The Fashion Globe Magazine ( http://www.thefashionglobe.com/greenshows)

The Green Shows

TGS VIP guests at the 2015 Rising Star Awards (photo by 2012 Press Kit from MBFW)

TORONTO, Canada — Fashion Week in any city is an opportunity for designers to share their views on trends, ideas and style, for buyers to filter in innovative designs into their stores and for fashion-lovers and style makers to find inspiration and pieces that define their style for the next season.

It is the creations that appear on the runways of fashion weeks around the world that set the stage for what is to be expected from seasons to come. It is also through these annual events that ideas about who we are and what we wear bring our identity to light. As designers, consumers and businesses continue to realise the importance of sustainability in the third most environmentally damaging industry in the world, the increasing popularity of sustainable, green or “eco” fashion weeks in major cities around the world reflects this trend. From Eco Fashion Week (EFW), an annual event that takes place in Vancouver, to the Berlin’s Ethical Fashion Show, these fashion weeks are proving to be much more than just pretty designs walking down a runway.

One great example is Vancouver-based, EFW, which is now entering its 9th season. Its mission is to inform and inspire “the fashion-conscious and sustainable-minded, alike, in a way that harmonises beauty and the environment,” with a belief that style is undeniably linked to innovation and sustainability. The event presents speaker seminars, industry panels and fashion shows to a diverse mix of global VIP guests, buyers, designers, stylists, photographers and the media. Most exciting is their focus on moving away the “hippie stigma” that accompanies sustainable fashion. In their own words: “if you’re looking for granola and hemp, you’ll have to check the snack bar.”

Similarly, The GreenShows LLC (TGS) “is a leading event, education and consulting company dedicated to the luxury sustainable fashion movement” based in New York. Since 2009, TGS has focused on bringing together the luxury sustainable fashion community, which encompasses designers, manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, celebrities, all platforms of media and consumers, through education and events. After hosting 30 runway shows and 2 pop stores in Soho, the East Village, and across other trendy neighbourhoods in New York, TGS made its Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week debut at Lincoln Center in 2012, for a presentation of eight ready-to-wear designers and nine accessories designers.

In a city that can arguably be classified as the fashion capital of the world, serving as headquarters to more than 1,000 fashion companies and holding the largest retail market in the country, an event and organisation of this nature is imperative to the sustainable fashion movement. For Dominique Drakeford, a TGS Ethical Fashion Consultant, New York is “a melting pot of creativity and cutting edge innovation with an illustrious history of style. Subsequently, it has perpetuated a culture that depreciates craftsmanship and worships fast fashion production models with nasty globalised production habits.” Drakeford continues:

On the consumer side, we’ve become an over consuming city with a mantra of disposability. This bitter-sweet NYC mosaic has ultimately created the perfect and arguably one of the most important platforms for sustainable change in the fashion industry.

The Green Shows

Designer Belina Pasqua & Super model, Coco Rocha at the GreenShows event at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in 2012.

In discussing the biggest successes of TGS, Drakeford says: “Being in the sustainable fashion business takes heart and unwavering passion. It’s never easy going against mainstream ideologies but we thrive from challenges. The MBFW show created a foundation for what is possible and what the future will look like. Based on that event, we now have a standard to live up to and the world will soon see us propel forward as we become a trailblazer for the Sustainable Fashion Lifestyle.” On the topic of challenges, she comments: “The greatest hurdle was of course due to lack of funding. We don’t think that will be a problem going forward.”

In 2015, the organisation was part of numerous events to bring awareness and education to the fashion community, held by organisations including, NRDC’s NY Council, FIT Department of International Trade & Marketing, Pratt Center for Sustainable Design Studies, Brooklyn Fashion & Design Accelerator, Columbia Business School/ Green Business Club and Parson’s School for Design at the New School. For Drakeford, the increasing discussion around sustainable fashion demonstrates that “luxury sustainable fashion is emerging and slowly becoming accepted on different platforms, although not widely voiced as such.”

With the growth of the Fashion Revolution Day, a social awareness campaign that sparked after the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, now in its second year of existence and the “myriad of emerging designers and brands that are implementing conscious practices into their designer ethos,” Drakeford and TGS believe that there will be exponential growth in the sustainable fashion industry.

Most recently, TGS has coined the acronym Sustainable Fashion Lifestyle (SFL) for a movement that acts as the epicentre of their next phase. For Drakeford, “TGS is on a mission to become the world voice of SFL… we will report on where and who are the world wide sustainable designers, brands and what are their scenes and popularity like in their home cities, countries and the rest of the world.” Most importantly, TGS realises the industry it operates in. “We are going to be approachable, sexy and fun – making sure that we live up to our mantra of putting on the hottest sustainable events.”

The Green Shows

Eco-friendly jewellery and accessories presented at the TGS event at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in 2012

We understand that this is the fashion business so education and awareness has to be done in style!

As fashion evolves, the infrastructure that supports the fashion world is evolving too. This includes regulations that support fashion production, the ideas and education that drive style and the concept of fashion week. As Drakeford points out: “The mainstream luxury and affordable luxury fashion industry has insurmountable issues, challenges and restrictions to achieving quick sustainable growth and the ability to produce and promote all sustainable product assortments and SFL lifestyles.”

Perhaps the next evolution will be mainstream fashion weeks, not off-shoot alternative events, holding sustainability and ethical behaviour as a key value. That being said, the fashion world is definitely stepping onto the right runway.

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Ethical Fashion in Action Talks – Part 4: The Environmental Impact of Fashion #ethicalfashion #eco #sustainable #environment

28 Tuesday Jul 2015

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Shopanthropic presents our fourth installment in a series called Ethical Fashion in Action Talks! Over the course of the next few months, we will take a look at topics related to ethical and sustainable fashion. Our goal with the Ethical Fashion in Action Talk series is to help educate consumers about the impact that the fashion industry has on the people that produce garments and accessories, the environment and the end consumer.

We want to spread the ethical fashion message, we want dialogue amongst ethical fashion lovers, fashionistas, designers and the industry at large and we want the movement to grow.

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In this video, we consider the environmental impact of traditional fashion industry practices.

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Celebrating World Environment Day! #Environment #Ecofashion #WorldEnvironmentDay

05 Thursday Jun 2014

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As we celebrate World Environment Day today – it is important to consider what we can do to help slow down the harmful affects our production practices have had on our global environment.

Ethical fashion can play a huge role in this mission.

With textiles and clothing/accessories production being a leading industry in many Asian and African countries, industry practices went unchecked in areas that did not have strict environmental regulationsfor many years. As global climate change continues to be a key topic of discussion for policymakers, corporations and individuals – many of these countries have strengthen their environmental stance and many corporations have tried to integrate sustainable practices into their supply chain.

That being said, the process is slow and climate change continues to rapidly affect every part of the world. As a consumer there is a lot we can still do – being eco-conscious in our shopping is one way. From the brands we endorse and the materials we wear to the plastic bags we carry our newly purchased garments in, the consumers vote is something that can revolutionize the industry. Most importantly, by counteracting the fast fashion movement, and choosing quality over quantity, we can send a powerful message to brands that try to exploit environments in developing countries such as Bangladesh.

So this is a reminder that consider what you wear and how that affects our rapidly changing planet the next time you step in your local mall or log on to your favourite online store.

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[Article Round up] Why Fashion Week Is Going Green #Ethicalfashion #Ecofashion

08 Friday Mar 2013

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“Pantone’s color of the year for 2013 may be emerald, but the collections at New York Fashion Week are lush with many shades of green. From linden to deep lichen, designers are using the colors of nature to make fashion come to life.

The literal abundance of green on the runways is also a fashion statement that reflects a deeper trend within the industry. As the fashion world incorporates environmental and other ethical concerns into brand identity, sustainability is becoming the new normal. In other words, eco-chic is going mainstream.

How did green fashion go from being associated with shapeless, colorless, scratchy garments made for a niche anti-fashion customer to being a paragon of luxurious fabrication, cutting-edge style and steady market growth? Part of the answer lies in changes in regulation, but other factors have been on display at Fashion Week itself.”

Read more: www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-scafidi/fashion-week-sustainability_b_2657980.html.

Some more interesting Ethical Fashion articles to read:

Bringing green fashion to the red carpet: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=216807

Group Has Plans for Sustainable Fashion District in NYC: http://www.earth911.com/news/2013/02/26/nyc-sustainable-fashion-district/

Do you wear conscientiousness on your sleeve? http://tribune.com.pk/story/510618/do-you-wear-conscientiousness-on-your-sleeve/

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