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How Single-Use Festival Looks Are Taking a Toll on the Environment
The British charity Barnardo’s discovered “That single-use outfits for music festivals, such as Glastonbury and Coachella, alone, account for approximately $307 million worth of items per year, or about 7.5 million outfits worn only once.” Modern wardrobes have adopted a ‘wear it once’ mentality, wearing an outfit one time, only for it to be considered old and unfashionable to wear again, and undoubtedly damaging the environment. For many, the impact of throwing away one outfit has gone unnoticed, resulting in an unnecessarily high carbon footprint. So why does this mentality still exist? Why does a ‘wear it once’ mentality exist? Why do we wear something once at a festival, and…
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What Is Fast Festival Fashion? Why You Should Care!
We’ve all heard of fast fashion. But around festival season when the sun comes out, along with the glitter box and eye sequins, we seem to ignore it. After the past year, everybody is itching to get out in their best outfit and fill up their empty Instagram feed. But what are the reasons and consequences of this lapse in environmental awareness, and how can you change for the better? The Harmful Mental Reasoning for Fast Festival Fashion Over the past few months, we’ve all been locked inside and want to go out, show off, and have fun. So the social pressures to emerge from a self-isolated winter in your…
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Woodstock to Once-Stocked: The Rise of Fast Festival Fashion
It’s August, 1969. The electrifying sounds of Rock ‘n’ roll – Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead – wash over you as your head spins under your flower-crown and your feet dance on the muddy ground. Hypnotised, you gaze around at your friends, at the sea of people surrounding you: thousands of hearts beating as one, high on peace, sex and psychedelics. It’s the summer of love. The mystical Woodstock Festival of 1969 has earned its place in pop-culture history as the era-defining moment that catapulted festival culture into the mainstream. In the 50 years since Woodstock, the number of people making their annual pilgrimage to music festivals…
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The Joys of a Guilt-Free Festival
Anticipation of finally being able to hear live music in a crowd of thousands is at an all-time high. After going through a worldwide pandemic, leaving us all locked inside for almost a year, anybody would daydream about it. There’s something magical about the buzz of picking out an outfit. The glee of arriving at a festival with friends. Bringing us together for the sole purpose of having a great time. Fashion at festivals has been a way of expression over the last 60 years, from a field of flares to all the way to fishnets. Festivals have been an opportunity to flaunt new extravagant summer outfits that lets us…
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Festival Fashion: Is It Just Another Wasteful Tradition?
The significance of festival culture + the environmental impact If there’s one thing us Brits love, it’s a good festival. A chance to hear our favourite bands play live, an excuse to stay up all night with friends, and the perfect opportunity to finally let our hair down. The festival culture that we love has existed for decades, and it’s easy to see why. Festivals bring us together. They create a strong sense of community and belonging, leaving fans with memories to cherish for a lifetime. In fact, people have been enjoying festivals for thousands of years! History Extra notes: “The first known music festival was the Pythian Games, a…
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Three Negative Effects of Fast Fashion
Fashion has always been a means for people to express themselves. To create and follow popular trends. A mark of popularity and an output for people’s creativity. New technology has produced new ways of shopping which introduces; fast fashion. Manufacturing focused on producing mass quantities of trendy clothes, cheaply made. It has made it easier for people to purchase off the runway dupes for next to nothing prices. With this rising in popularity, what are the negative effects on our ocean and planet? Cheap but not cheerful Everyone loves a bargain and I am guilty of doing a haul on Shein. Shocked at how low the prices are – dresses…
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5 fashion fixes that could save our oceans
The fashion industry is one of the biggest contributors to global pollution. High levels of water consumption and pollution are having disastrous effects on our beautiful oceans. The time to change our consumer habits is now! So how do we turn our polluted rivers into streams of consciousness? Let’s take a look at some of the main issues and 5 easy ways to help combat them. The main issues Products like synthetic clothing release microfibres when washed. This contributes to about 35% of the primary plastic that’s polluting our oceans. When we wash our clothes, microfibres are released into wastewater which treatment plants can’t filter. These microfibres then attract organic…
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Under the Sea
I know I’m not the only one guilty of buying a new wardrobe every season, especially with lockdown and plenty of time to scroll through copious amounts of websites. However, what effect does this fast fashion lifestyle have on our oceans? Well, a majority of the fibers used to create these fast fashion pieces are collected from the Earth. In order to keep up with the high demand, the harvesting process is done by using toxic chemicals, which then run into our water supplies or into our soils. Around 17-20% of industrial water pollution comes from the fashion industry, which is the highest of them all. Some companies have decided…
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Our Love of Fast Fashion Is Destroying Our Oceans
How the fast fashion industry is harming marine life + what we can do to help There is no denying that our planet is suffering. This fact is an unpleasant truth that all of us live with. We’ve seen the upsetting images of wild animals losing their homes to human destruction, getting trapped in nets and litter, or even, becoming extinct right before our eyes. In an attempt to reverse the damage we’ve caused, we are changing decades worth of bad habits. We now question ourselves before throwing anything away – can this carton be recycled? Does it need another rinse clean? We may tut and sigh when our delivery…
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The Role of Activism on the Red Carpet
The injustices that take place in the fashion industry are well-known. From big designers being amongst the worst culprits of damaging environmental standards in the industry, to the political statements made by celebrities throughout the years through style. It is apparent that the red carpet has been the place where celebrities address the most imperative issues yet where further change is required. “You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.” Diana Vreeland The environmental role on the red carpet The problem with red carpet fashion stems from well-known designers in the industry alongside the celebrities that feel comfortable wearing…
