Sustainable Style: Trend or Movement? What do Students Think
Published Wednesday, June 25, 2008 by SROmgmt.
I had a chance this past April to swing by the Cornell Textiles & Fashion School and give a talk on sustainable fashion. Students are a good gauge as to how information is being dispersed and what effect it is having because they are more informed than the average person, but the information is obtained in drastically different ways. How did they read sustainability in the press?
Answer: As a trend.
It wasn't clear for the majority of them that "sustainability" was something that would be here season-to-season. They commented that how it is written about in the press makes it "feel" like a trend, more than something that is here to stay.
There you have it journalists: Now you got to start addressing the fact that this is a valid movement in the textiles and apparel industry.
For the fashionistas: I'm wearing AOI, which is a recycled kimono double-cuff jacket with an organic cotton "LOVE" tee by Katharine Hamnett.
Labels: AOI, apparel industry, Cornell University, ecofashion, Ecofashion sustainable style, fashion school, Katharine Hamnett, Summer Rayne Oakes, sustainable fashion
The Frankfurter Gives Some Sweet Kisses to Eco-Modeling
Published Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by SROmgmt.
I love the Germans or perhaps it's the other way around. No matter- there's just all love up in this house. And the Germans are just so on top of all things going on. The Frankfurter gave me some props in a recent issue and ran this beautiful photo that Anouk and I did at my place before she left New York. I'm wearing a Katharine Hamnett shirt and John Patrick Organic jacket. Click on the image to enlarge.
Labels: eco fashion, Frankfurter, john patrick, Katharine Hamnett, organic, press, sustainable style
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