How to describe fashion?
Because Fashion as I know it is different from whatever fashion is for someone born two and three decades ago.
Here’s how I see it:
whatever is NOW called “ethical” , “sustainable”, “Fair”, “slow” Fashion
IS
Fashion.
It’s all the rest that isn’t.
The concept of Fast Fashion was introduced to distinguish the practice based on craftsmanship, creativity, artistry, skills, talent, tradition, heritage from the dilapidation of all of the above for the benefit of the industrial mammoth model of overproduction, exploitation and overconsumption.
A system that took a turn for the wrong with an apparent intent of democratization.
And this is the blog post, it’s a lot to unload from every perspective, but I would hope it would serve as a lever of a wider system thinking revolution.