Gabriela Hearst keeps pushing the edge of sustainability in fashion

Gabriela Hearst keeps pushing the edge of sustainability in fashion

Long before it became trendy in fashion circles, environmentalism was the guiding ethos in the designer’s work. “What am I going to do, another collection based on a ’70s icon?”

For centuries, most of humanity viewed clothing as something to be worn until it was on the thread, but advances in materials, production, and logistics made it disposable.

Fashion firms producing truckload of textile waste every second

Data reveals 92m tonnes of waste being produced evey year globally.

‘Toward zero waste in fashion and textiles’

There is a global waste crisis that is driving the planet toward destruction.  It is fueled by man’s unsustainable production and consumption practices which waste management facilities are ill-equipped to handle.We are familiar with how we consume and dispose things, lured by constant advertising that touches the emotion, and presents every new product as a necessary item. That emotion to buy — and eventually dispose — products generate from 2.…

This March 30th is International Zero Waste Day and for the UN Secretary-General, planet Earth has become a fashion victim. Guterres says that textile production often uses thousands of chemicals and many of them are harmful to people and the environment. Every second, a path […]

The fashion industry is one of the most polluting sectors in the world, and it consumes enormous amounts of water, 215 billion litres per year.