Is Sustainability the Future of Fashion?
from ECOUTERRE.com posted on 11.05.11
When the Afingo Fashion Forum asked Jill Fehrenbacher, Ecouterre editor-in-chief, to curate a panel on sustainability and philanthropy in fashion in April, she jumped at the chance.
The panelists included fashion consultant Julie Gilhart (formerly of Barneys New York), eco-model/entrepreneur Summer Rayne Oakes, Starre Vartan of Eco-Chick Magazine, jewelry designer Lisa Salzer of Lulu Frost, Melissa Kushner of Goods for Good and Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra of Costello Tagliapietra.
Watch the video below to hear what some of the hottest names in fashion have to say about the future of green, and whether we should ditch the “eco” prefix.
Sustainable Fashion Panel Discussion in NY
Some special quotes:
Julie Gilhart: “It’s not about sustainable fashion, it’s just the future of fashion. I think that to move away from terms, like ‘eco’ or ‘green,’ in the consumer part is probably a good idea. [The industry] is going to have to up its ante and not take from the world but give it back.”
Lisa Salzer (Lulu Frost): “['Eco'] is something that people like to buzz about. It is that word that people love to throw around, but in my opinion it is the future.”
Summer Rayne Oakes:“The next step is to build an infrastructure for designers to be able to ‘plug and play’ and going beyond what we see as the traditional modes of sustainable fashion, like materials, into dyestuffs and the whole life-cycle approach.”
Starre Vartan: “My dream for how clothing could be labeled is more along the lines of LEED, which has Gold, Silver, and Platinum [ratings]. Moving forward, we’ll definitely have some kind of standard, either a label or an organization that is going to oversee this third-party certification of organic clothing that will also entail looking at where it has come from and where it is going…more companies will jump on the bandwagon as soon as there is some kind of certification.”
Robert Tagliapietra (Costello Tagliapietra): “The problem is there are so many ways that you can do things that it kind of becomes overwhelming. The reality is that you’re never going to do everything perfectly. People lose sight of the fact that ‘if I [just] change this,’ this makes a huge impact.”
What do you think?
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Such an interesting discussion, really inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
Comment by Fashion-Conscience — June 25, 2012 @ 7:34 am