The start of a brand new year is always ripe with promise and countless possibilities. We asked 22 eco-fashion movers and shakers, including a museum textile conservator, a Project Runway winner, a wearable-technology designer, an online curator of preowned clothing, and several of our media comrades in arms to offer their forecasts for the year ahead. Discover why Safia Minney of People Tree thinks that adorning our bodies will be less important than paying attention to our health, who Summer Rayne Oakes pegs as a champion of artisanship, and what Prophetik's Jeff Garner predicts will be "dripping from the tongues of the masses."
ECO-FASHION ORACLES
1. Summer Rayne Oakes (Source4Style)
2. Leslie Hoffman (Earth Pledge)
3. Safia Minney (People Tree)
4. Sarah Scaturro (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum)
5. Jeff Garner (Prophetik)
6. Natalie Chanin (Alabama Chanin)
7. Carrie Parry
8. Karen Stewart and Howard Brown (Stewart + Brown)
10. John Patrick (Organic)
11. Meiling Chen
12. Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart (Vaute Couture)
13. Justina Blakeney
14. Ella T. Gorgla (I-ELLA)
15. Zem Joaquin (Ecofabulous)
16. Syuzi Pakhchyan (Fashioning Technology)
17. Brad Bennett (Well-Spent)
18. Amy DuFault (EcoSalon)
19. Starre Vartan (Eco-Chick)
20. Emma Grady (TreeHugger, Past Fashion Future)
21. Kate McGregor (KAIGHT)
22. Carmen Artigas (Fashion Institute of Technology)
The “band of men and women, artists of the cloth” are not all young. Some of us are wizened, aka middle-aged and fine with it. Let’s stop assigning forward thinking as a purview of the young.
I agree with professor Carmen! These changes are imperative and there is no looking back. I am glad that fashion industry is taking on this conscientious and visionary lead.
Encouraging predictions!Love to think of “quality over quantity” & looking for our clothes to tell a story, becoming the practice in fashion.