What’s in my guide to sustainable fashion?
The beginner’s guide to sustainable fashion is an independently written project I edited for Moscow Fashion Week and published in Spring 2021. It’s a collection of facts and opinions on the topic, featuring brilliant thinkers, powerful activists, and prominent creators (all women!) from Russia and beyond.
Fashion’s impact on people, planet and animals
The guide was released during fashion week and accessible to all, for free. It is an overview of the main issues linked to global clothing production and consumption. It summarises the complex relationship between ethical and sustainable fashion, and why they can’t be isolated from each other. It also provides perspectives on the future of fashion that I find interesting.
What is the limit of individual action when it comes to making fashion more sustainable?
The sustainable fashion guide is free from advertising and other commercial interests. It invites you to look at the bigger picture in order to understand the power and the limits of your role as a citizen and consumer. I chose to highlight some voices and projects I find truly inspiring in the slow fashion space.
Who is featured in the guide to sustainable fashion?
For example, I chose to feature Ayesha Barenblat, founder and CEO of Remake, a community of fashion lovers, women’s rights advocates, and environmentalists on a mission to change the fashion industry’s harmful practices on people and our planet. You’ll also find insights by Aditi Mayer, a fellow sustainable fashion blogger, I have been following for years. Mayer, who is US-based, is also a photojournalist, labor rights activist, speaker on topics of social and environmental justice.
One of my favourite quotes from the guide to sustainable fashion is from Ayesha Barenblat:
A single clothing item’s footprint indelibly molds our land, our water, our air – and each other. Our purchase power to choose companies is important, but it’s not enough. Sustainable and ethical fashion both call on revolutionizing the social, economic, and environmental systems in which the fashion industry functions.
Share your thoughts
Let me know what you think of the guide in the comment section below.