Come January, I am attending a convention/seminar of and for fashion designers, fashion merchandisers and retailers, garments and textile manufacturers, and companies and corporations engaging in the business of making and selling clothes. The topic that will be discussed is our role as makers of clothes and protectors of Mother Earth, and the way our line of business is affecting the onslaught of Global Warming.
I might want to raise some questions during this seminar.....what are good and relevant questions to ask that's in connection with my profession as a fashion designer?
2006-12-24 18:23:28 · 7 answers · asked by bongcs 2 in Environment
Wouldn't know, really. Each and every industrialized human activity has a way to worm its way towards and contribute to global warming. Successful fashion design is put into the hands of fashion manufacturers who in turn will manufacture HUGE amounts of clothes to cut down price tabs, therefore producing (and therefore contributing to global warming through unnecessary textile production) HUGE quantities of clothes, that we will end up buying without immediate need. The whole process can turn up to be vicious when it goes on mindlessly.
Now, you will find it quite difficult to make it clear to your audience that your concern is over-production of unnecessary clothes, because your own activity is all about enticing people into buying unnecessary clothes and garments. You'll look rather paradoxical in your speech, and global warming is feeding precisely on people disliking actual paradoxes.
Sorry, folk, can't help further, except saying Happy Yuletide.
2006-12-24 18:58:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The textile and fashion industries probably do not have much influence on climate, with the possible exception of synthetic fabrics that require some type of chemical manufacturing. Maybe there are some issues with the manufacturing of synthetics? I know that suppliers like Patagonia try to use recycled materials when possible. Some natural fabrics like rami might be a good substitute for some warm-weather textiles made of polyester, but people are not very familiar with rami, and its hard to find anyone that uses it in the US. Cotton growing has all sorts of environmental problems because it requires lots of pesticides, but this might not have much to do with global warming, besides the manufacturing process for the pesticides.
2006-12-25 04:55:33 · answer #2 · answered by formerly_bob 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Start by asking the end user, Do you care? Retailers want low cost, don't care what chemicals are used, and don't care if the world is polluted to do it. Jobs moving from the strict environmental rules of EU and USA may save them money but the pollution created is 100-10000 times more in China and Southeast Asia. They insist on whiteness that can only be done with chemicals being banned elsewhere, the insist on colors and fastness that can only be done with metal containing dyes, and they have feelgood programs of paper tiger certifications that they never confirm. You can buy organic cotton certificates. The fields are never checked. There are others. Forget global warming, the retailers do not want to limit plain old fashion pollution.
2006-12-27 14:25:36 · answer #3 · answered by Peter Boiter Woods 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could start by proposing that the entire fashion industry shut down for exactly one year and let everyone wear the perfectly good clothes they bought last year. Then, a year later if you find out that global warming actually slowed down by a measurable amount you can ramp up production again until you are almost at the point of becoming a net contributor to GW again.
2006-12-25 03:01:16 · answer #4 · answered by Evita Rodham Clinton 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How will we assume there is something yet a organic phenomenon linked with international warming and cooling because we've basically a limited quantity of documents from the previous one hundred or so years to entice from? isn't it superficial to asume that the greenhouse result has basically somewhat all started in the previous one hundred years? would not cleansing the air of hydrocarbons shrink the possibility of moisture because of the fact it somewhat is "grimy air" which permits form clouds? What if any procedures are there to offer textiles and shelter a sparkling air atmosphere?
2016-10-28 08:05:29 · answer #5 · answered by englin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heres 1:
If we keep promoting global warming, will we have the products that create are desighns?????
2006-12-24 18:27:20 · answer #6 · answered by emily s 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What are the ways of solving the poblem?
2006-12-25 05:46:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋