Trashion for Fashion
I researched and wrote this article about Graduate fashion designers who are championing sustainability, and up cycling waste products to produce their final year collection.
Trashion For Fashion
The UK fashion industry contributes £26 billion to the economy and supports 797,000 jobs. Worldwide it turns over more than £2.4 trillion, and globally produces approximately 100 billion garments per year!
However, let’s spare a thought for all the off cuts of Leather, textile, clothing and other waste that is generated as a result of clothes production, combine this pile up with the throw away culture fuelled by fast fashion and you can see that we have a problem.
As it stands, fashion is the third most polluting industry to the environment after oil and coal. Due to its impact on water and its emission levels of C02 involved in production and clothes waste. This is pushing at the boundaries of the Earth’s capacity to absorb greenhouse gases, hazardous chemicals, as well as depleting resources, - not to mention drying rivers and cancer causing dyes......