Pinning down one categorical definition of "sustainable fashion" is a next-to-impossible feat, so we took the opportunity to survey some of the designers who were staked out at the Green Room at Designers & Agents to map out this elusive terrain. "We have a voice here at D&A, we have a platform," notes Barbara Kramer, co-founder of the curated fashion event. "And I think the Green Room is one of the best things that we've done with that platform."
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“Sustainable,” “eco,” organic,” “ethical”—keeping track of the plethora of “green” (there’s another one!) fashion terms can make a sane person run screaming for the straightjacket. But what’s in a name? We ambushed six emerging eco-designers at the Designers & Agents Green Room—including Samantha Pleet, Kizzy Jai Knight, and Shannon South—to suss out their susty definitions.
The final word? “D&A is really about fashion first, and sustainability second,” Ed Mandelbaum, co-founder of the international trade show, tells Ecouterre. Yet bringing the two together only made sense. “This is the best Green Room that we’ve ever had,” he adds.
I’m unsure about the term “sustainable fashion”, as fashion is so fickle, but I like the term “sustainable style”, and I tried to define some principles for it in this blog post – http://cocojones.tumblr.com/post/575776778/musings-on-sustainable-style
But whatever efforts we make as consumers, we need great designers like these who can take responsibility their end (and websites like yours to tell us about them!) Thanks!
Sustainable fashion means different things to different people. Here’s my take on it.
http://bouclesf.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/a-start-on-the-definition-of-sustainable-fashion/