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How can we get rid of the one-time-wear taboo?
We’ve all been there. You’ve got a cute picture you want to post on Insta, but you’re wearing the same outfit as your last post. Really frustrating. So, what do you do? The ‘one-time-wear’ system says you should buy something cheap and new, then take another photo. But how is this sustainable? In short, it’s not. It’s the number one issue in the textiles industry at the moment. We actually threw away £12.5 billion worth of clothes in Britain last year. All because 1 in 6 of us don’t want to be seen wearing the same outfit twice. Where Did This ‘One-Time-Wear’ Taboo Start? We can trace the ‘one-time-wear’ trend…
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Is fashion killing our planet?
The UN has predicted that the global population could reach a whopping 9.8 billion people by 2050. If this happens, we will need the equivalent of 3 planets to provide the resources needed to sustain our current lifestyles. So how can one planet create all these resources? And how can we as consumers change our behaviour to stop us killing our planet? How Bad is the Fashion Industry Environmentally? We all know that fast fashion is causing the fashion industry to be one of the main pollutants of the environment. Each year we, as a planet, consume more than 80 billion items of clothing. Another £12.5 billion worth of clothes…
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Le Smoking Jacket
How Yves Saint Laurent Brought Feminism to Fashion. When I say the phrase ‘power suit’, which brand do you think of? Armani? Stella McCartney? Altuzarra? If we think of the iconic power suit, we tend to consider Giorgio Armani as the pioneer. But I think the true pioneer in women’s suits is Yves Saint Laurent with his Le Smoking jacket. The First Appearance of the Le Smoking Jacket Debuted in 1966, it was widely unaccepted to begin with. In fact, many women were refused entry to restaurants and theatres simply for wearing a tuxedo. The look only became widespread and popular in the 1970s thanks to Bianca Jagger. She wore…
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Will fashion ever be truly genderless?
In this article we’ll be investigating whether or not genderless fashion is just a trend, or whether it’s here to stay. While gender-fluidity can seem like quite a recent topic, it can be traced back to 1824. Hidden in the forests of Indiana, a small town called New Harmony was founded. In this town, both men and women could wear shirts and trousers. But how could one small town revolutionise gendered clothing while the rest of the world was trapped in rigid gender-stereotypes for the next 150-200 years? How has vintage and second-hand clothing changed gendered clothing? Now that sustainability is becoming a huge part of life for all of…
