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!