Fashion and Us

 FASHION NEEDS AND CONSUMPTION  - Global Point of View Fashion plays an important role in many lives, but in the twenty-first century, the environmental and ethical challenges inherent in the global fashion system have reached a critical point. At the risk of hyperbole, the concerns of sustainable fashion affect nothing short of the entire world: the practices of all humans who wear clothes, the well-being of the world’s 60 million garment workers and 250 million cotton growers, the farms and forests that provide cotton and viscose, the oil fields providing petrochemicals for synthetic fiber, the animals providing fiber and hides, the growing mountains of waste, and the economic paradigms that require fashion’s systems of production and consumption to grow ad infinitum. As the fashion and sustainability discourse gathers momentum internationally, it is imperative that companies and individuals alike collectively work to reduce the impacts from producing and consuming fashion g...

 FASHION NEEDS AND CONSUMPTION  - Society point of view Why does the industry consume at such an exponential rate? For starters, it can.   The industry has developed a norm referred to as ‘Fast Fashion. Which are garments designed to reflect current industry trends, produced in large volumes quickly and cheaply. Brands and retailers that operate within the fast fashion lens use less expensive materials and outsource production to ensure price tags are desirably low. What is Fast Fashion's Social Impact? 97% of fast fashion is produced overseas in developing countries with poor labor laws and human rights protections. Evidence of forced and child labor employed by the fashion industry in countries like Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Turkey, Vietnam (US Department of Labor). Dangerous working conditions: factory fires, accidents and collapses are incredibly dangerous to garment workers. 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh killed over 110...

  FASHION NEEDS AND CONSUMPTION   - Personal point of view There is a big difference between fashion needs and a fashion wants.  Sure, it’s nice when a want is a need, but, unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. THE DIFFERENCE #1- THE NEED PRESENTS ITSELF MULTIPLE TIMES During an outfit session with a client, I told her that I thought she could use one or two more pairs of shoes but I wouldn’t know for certain until we started putting her looks together.  I explained that her potential shoe needs would present themselves as we worked through her outfits.  As we continued to work, I found myself mentioning grey flats for her outfits multiple times.  Clearly, grey flats became a fashion need and something we already proved she would wear.   #2-IT WORKS WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY OWN Never is there a time when I am shopping that I don’t think about what already exists in my closet, or go down a list of what from my wardrobe I can wear with the piece I...

MINIMALISM Minimalism is intentionally living with only the things I really need—those items that support my purpose. I am removing the distraction of excess possessions so I can focus more on those things that matter most. It is intentionality Its is freedom from passion to possess It is freedom from modern mania It is freedom from duplicity  It is counter cultural  It is not external but internal It is completely achievable Here is a short video about the same !

Fast fashion is the term used to describe clothing designs that move quickly from the catwalk to stores to meet new trends. The collections are often based on designs presented at Fashion Week events. Fast fashion allows mainstream consumers to purchase trendy clothing at an affordable price. Fast fashion became common because of cheaper clothing, an increase in the appetite for fashionable clothing, and the increase in purchasing power on the part of consumers. Because of all this, fast fashion is challenging new fashion lines that are introduced on a seasonal basis by traditional fashion houses. In fact, it's not uncommon for fast-fashion retailers to introduce new products multiple times in one week to stay on trend WHAT IS MASS MARKET ? It refers to :- •    The market for goods that are produced in large quantities. •    Ready to wear garments in mass. •    Cheap material of fabrics creatively used to produce affordable fashion. ...

PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT The concern about climate change is increasing day by day . We need to care about the planet we live on . Nature is being used by us human beings and we aren't respecting it , Instead polluting and degrading it in many ways.   Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water. These negative impacts can affect human behavior and can prompt mass migrations or battles over clean water.                                                 WAYS HUMAN IMPACT ENVIRONMENT OVERPOPULATION - Humans require space and lots of it whether it is for farmland or industries which also takes up tons of space. An increased population results in more clear-cutting, resulting in severel...

EFFECT OF FAST FASHION ON ENVIRONMENT ! Here are the most significant impacts fast fashion has on the planet. Clothing production has roughly doubled since 2000. In Europe, fashion companies went from an average offering of two collections per year . Some brands offer even more. Zara puts out 24 collections per year, while H&M offers between 12 and 16. A lot of this clothing ends up in the dump. The equivalent of one garbage truck full of clothes is burned or dumped in a landfill every second. In total, up to 85% of textiles go into landfills each year. That’s enough to fill the Sydney harbor annually. Washing clothes, meanwhile, releases 500,000 tons of microfibers into the ocean each year — the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles. Many of those fibers are polyester, a plastic found in an estimated 60% of garments. Producing polyester releases two to three times more carbon emissions than cotton, and polyester does not break down in the ocean. A 2017 report from the Internati...

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        SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY  . . . !   Social responsibility is an ethical framework and suggests that an individual has an obligation to work and cooperate with other individuals and organizations for the benefit of society at large.  SEPTEMBER - 3  Cultural Diversity Cultural Diversity is about appreciating that society is made up of many different groups with different interests, skills, talents and. needs. It also means that you recognize that people in society can have differing religious beliefs and sexual orientations to you. Here in this picture , Society structure of Egyptians is depicted ! Society Structures and Norms Social structure is the patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of individuals. Likewise, society is believed to be grouped into structurally-related groups or sets of roles, with different functions, meanings, or purposes. Examples of social structure include f...