greening your closet/ presentation by joanne gilbert
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Challenges + solutions to building a personal style that reduces waste.(Please do not copy any portion without my permission.)TRANSCRIPT
Greening Your Closet
Eco- Fashion
(Style can save us!)
Function
Expression
Green Living
Paper Δ Cloth Δ PVC’s !!
Overlooked
Renate Cummings Benson
The future of fashion is not acrylic.
Designers are expanding downward into mass market.
• Media and consumer awareness of design
Generation of Fast Copies
New “Tweens” Brands
MORE is Fun?
Sustainable Fashion?42% of imports to USA are apparel
From design sketch to donation box?
Textile Recycling is not enough10.6 million tons of textile waste.(2003, US EPA report)
Kyoto Agreement 2012Carbon EmissionsToxic ChemicalsNon-Renewable Resources
Behind the look you love…
ManufacturePkg.
Transport
Market/ RetailWear/ Care/ Dispose
Grow/ SpinWeave/ Dye
(Invisible) Waste CycleInvisible) Waste Cycle• Agriculture/Chemical
Components• Transport• Fiber• Yarn/Fabric• Dye and Finish• Transport• Production /Pkg• Transport• Retail• Use/Care• Disposal
Complex Supply Chain
“What do you want to grow?”William McDonough
• Intelligent Design is the answer to prosperity.
economic
Peoplesocial physical
Triple Top Line of Business
Profit
Planet
Customized Fashion Forecast
• “avalanches of new information that are meant to connect people, yet paradoxically have had an equally disconnecting impact.” ……. “As the world becomes smaller and more homogeneous, with the big brands ubiquitous on Main St. from Berlin to Beijing, we fight world blanding and blending.”
• SPEAKER: Merrill Greene, Vice President Creative Director, STYLESIGHT (official trend partner of Material World ‘08-’09)
’06 Trends: Details, One-of- a-Kind
Mim Knits,shibori technique
Influences: Technology and Global Labor Market
Recycled/Customized
Consider : Life of a garment
• Longevity
• Versatility
• Quality
• Re-creation or Reuse
•Focus garment’s story and meaning
Why the Gap ?
• Intelligent Design is the answer to prosperity.
• You can have You can have your fashion and your fashion and future too.future too.
Sustainable Fashion:
A Class that Combined A Class that Combined CreativityCreativity, Social responsibility , Social responsibility andand
Community CollaborationCommunity Collaboration
Sustainable Fashion Class
Quality and Cutting Choices
Creative problem solving
Repurposed
Reworked
Interdisciplinary Opportunities
Redesigned recycled reborn!
Merchandising
25% sales to local charitiesLocal Thrift shop gave us space.
Spring Trunk Show
Redesigned
Reworked
Fall 2006 Design Samples include reworked jeans
Look Again received a Special Visit from
Senator Clinton and the former President, September 2006
Sierra Magazine
January Print Issue“The Green Life” Section
and online at :
http://www.sierraclub.org
Click on “The Green Life”
“Recycled With Style”Fashion Show for the Benefit of Crouse Hospital
Reinvent
A New Era for Fashion Industry Materials
Syracuse University Enitiative Curriculum Grant 2008
“green is the new black”
Beau Soleil /Bamboo Jersey
Susan Menkes,2006 for International Herald Tribune
Shapes in Hemp muslins
Inspired Surface Textures
Customized Digitally Printed
Versace
CAD students’ work
Read the labels.
All new clothes are not created equal
Ex. The “Good” Ones
Linen,,Silk,Organic Cotton, Alpaca (wools) and
Soy,Hemp,Bambo,Cocono™TencelTM, Ingeo TM
Natural over Synthetic?
Shades of green
Avita recycled cashmere
Sameunderneath
Bamboo,Rayon
Ceil organic and Azo free-dye
Organic Cotton Dark Wash
Delforte Organic and low impact wash
Gregory Rogan Loomstate
plus Edun with Ali Hewitt/Bono
Bamboo or Hemp
Panda Snack 2007
Linen and Silk
Local Wool
• Merino• Mohair• Cashmere• Angora• Camel• Alpaca
Soy Jersey & handknits
Soy Baby, soy+organic cotton
Coconut or Seaweed
Halston, Ingeo™ dress Earth Pledge Future fashion Show 2006
Nanofibers :PLA from Corn
Cargill’s Ingeo™
The future of fashion is not acrylic.
Elisa-Jimenez, Ingeo ™
The “Bad” OnesNylon, Acrylic, Polyester, Acetate,
Metallics, Vinyl, Scotchgard
* Made from petroleum chemicals or emit toxic particles + gases over life of garment. Non renewable/recyclable except for Polyester
*Avoid natural/synthetic blends that cannot be recycled or separated.
Dyes and Finishes can be harmful even when natural or organic.! Always WASH your new clothing before wear.
Fashion is Choices, Choices
• www.fabriclink.com/News/Sustainability.cfm
1. Buy Vintage
60’s Oscar De La Renta 60’s Yves Saint Laurent
2.Buy Recreated/Recycled
Hand Dyed, Hand Stitched/Recycled
Designed by Natalie Chanin and her collaborator, Butch Anthony, and hand-made by artisans — the ladies, as she calls them — in her hometown of Florence, Ala., her products are examples of Slow Design, which is not so much a metabolic term as it is a philosophical one.
Alabama Chanin
3. Buy renewable and fair trade.
• Major brands/stores: • Nike, Timberland, Levis, Walmart, Barney’s, H&M
• Smaller brands/designers: • Linda Loudermilk, Stella McCartney, Armani, • Stewart & Brown, Eileen Fisher,J. Jill
• Independent Designers and Boutiques: • Etsy, Kaight, Made Boutique
Need some (online) inspiration?
Beklina.comthegreenloop.com greenwithglamour.com inhabitat.com
“What do you want to grow?”William McDonough
• Creativity• Health• Business• Community• Renewable Resources
economic
social physical
Buy the good stuff!
• Renewable/Non toxic • Fair Trade• Local Economy
Your Style can
save us!