The care of clothing.
Posted on2021-11-23
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Is your passion linked to the universe of manual work and the desire to develop your personal skills to demonstrate to you, even before others, the value of creating an object? Whatever passion it is, Bookknitting, crochet, embroidering or sewing, this link between creativity and the desire to create and customize garments and accessories, will make it even more natural to take care of them.
From here, it is a short step to pay more attention to the issues of social and environmental ethics and the importance of the choices we can make every day, aware of the contribution we want to make in society.
Over the last few years, especially in countries such as the United Kingdom, a sensitivity has been developed on the issues of sustainability in the fashion industry (fashion system) with many awareness and training initiatives.
Among the most significant exponents we find Kate Fletcher designer - English researcher at the College of Fashion who has signed over fifty specialized publications. Among these: Fashion, design and sustainability, published by Postmedia in 2018.
But there are also those like Orsola de Castro, Roman, champion of sustainable fashion, an internationally recognized leader with a career that began in 1997 in the world of upcycling, that is recycling that enhances second-hand, in 2006 was co- founder of the “Estethica del British Fashion Council” initiative within London Fashion Week. In 2013, she founded Fashion Revolution, a movement of activism in fashion, a global movement for a more ethical future spread in more than ninety countries.
Orsola is speaker, mentor and Visiting Fellow at Central Saint Martins at London University of the Arts.
The Clothes You Love Live Longer, is her first book with a subtitle that reads: repairing, re-fitting and re-wearing your clothes is a revolutionary choice.
Taking care of an item of clothing or an accessory begins with being aware of where, how and respecting which values it was created.
This conscious choice is renewed and repeated daily, with the use, care and attention we reserve for it, so that over time it can acquire value with our history.
From here, it is a short step to pay more attention to the issues of social and environmental ethics and the importance of the choices we can make every day, aware of the contribution we want to make in society.
Over the last few years, especially in countries such as the United Kingdom, a sensitivity has been developed on the issues of sustainability in the fashion industry (fashion system) with many awareness and training initiatives.
Among the most significant exponents we find Kate Fletcher designer - English researcher at the College of Fashion who has signed over fifty specialized publications. Among these: Fashion, design and sustainability, published by Postmedia in 2018.
But there are also those like Orsola de Castro, Roman, champion of sustainable fashion, an internationally recognized leader with a career that began in 1997 in the world of upcycling, that is recycling that enhances second-hand, in 2006 was co- founder of the “Estethica del British Fashion Council” initiative within London Fashion Week. In 2013, she founded Fashion Revolution, a movement of activism in fashion, a global movement for a more ethical future spread in more than ninety countries.
Orsola is speaker, mentor and Visiting Fellow at Central Saint Martins at London University of the Arts.
The Clothes You Love Live Longer, is her first book with a subtitle that reads: repairing, re-fitting and re-wearing your clothes is a revolutionary choice.
Taking care of an item of clothing or an accessory begins with being aware of where, how and respecting which values it was created.
This conscious choice is renewed and repeated daily, with the use, care and attention we reserve for it, so that over time it can acquire value with our history.
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