Fashion trends
Eco fashion: Fashion trend for civilized people
Fashion is the world’s leading industry in terms of emissions causing environmental pollution.
Fast fashion and its `addictive` elements
Fast fashion `giants` with global store chains are always crowded with buyers (Photo: Getty)
The concept of “fast fashion” was first mentioned in the 90s to describe the rapid attack speed of popular fashion brands such as Zara, H&M, Topshop, Pull & Bear… in
“Fast fashion” is now also used to describe the breakneck speed of production and the short life cycle of clothing (Photo: Getty)
Masoud Golsorkhi, editor of Tank magazine in London, pointed out how Inditex (the group that owns the Zara, Pull & Bear, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Stradivarius…) brand chains is reorienting the consumption habits of the masses.
Working people in poor countries are the ones heavily affected by the `fast fashion` industry (Photo: The Guardian)
Don’t turn fashion into nature’s `sinner`!
Fast fashion began to be criticized for its negative effects on people and the environment.
Fast fashion has since then been compared to a burger that the fashion world `dedicates` to the environment: Fast, cheap, full of temptation and harmful to health.
(Photo: Attila Kisbenedek – GreenPeace)
More beneficial than harmful, this consumption habit indirectly promotes policies that exploit cheap labor sources in developing countries (such as Vietnam and Bangladesh) because this is where most fast fashion brands are located.
“Sustainable fashion” – “Savior” for the fashion industry?
“Sustainable fashion” or “eco fashion” – sustainable fashion, eco-fashion is a philosophy in fashion with the aim of extending the life cycle of fashion products to limit negative effects on the ecosystem.
“Sustainable fashion was born” with the purpose of reducing environmental pollution (Photo: Stella McCartney)
Sustainable fashion began to take off in the late 80s and early 90s. Prominent at that time were the two brands Patagonia and ESPRIT.
Sustainable fashion began to take off in the late 80s and early 90s. Prominent at that time were the two brands Patagonia and ESPRIT.
Sustainable fashion began to take off in the late 80s and early 90s. Prominent at that time were the two brands Patagonia and ESPRIT.
Sustainable fashion began to take off in the late 80s and early 90s. Prominent at that time were the two brands Patagonia and ESPRIT.
Sustainable fashion began to take off in the late 80s and early 90s. Prominent at that time were the two brands Patagonia and ESPRIT.
Sustainable fashion with a promising future because of humanity and pioneering (Photo: Stella McCartney)
Conclude
Through a process of slow formation and steadfast maintenance, sustainable fashion today is gradually being promoted, joining the `green` trend in design to promptly save the environment which is at an alarming level of pollution.
Designer Stella McCartney next to Gwyneth Paltrow – two famous stars who always support sustainable fashion (Photo: Getty)
It’s easy to see that, in the midst of temporary usurpation, `fast fashion` is still triumphantly banging its drums and gongs, `sustainable fashion` stands out in its own way because of its strategic humanity, progressing slowly but surely in the minds of designers.
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To aim for a sustainable lifestyle, minimizing human impact on the environment and society in the garment sector, ELLE Vietnam organizes ELLE Design Contest – the “Sustainable Fashion” design competition (
Time to receive exam applications: October 3 – November 5, 2017
See more details here