Behind La P.M.: Perspective – Session 9
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): La Petite Mort
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/08/01
There’s some other aspects to do with writing such as in this blog or for Trusted Clothes. These relate to sustainable, ethical fashion. how does this relate to some of your professional work?
I haven’t had the chance to work for sustainable fashion brands. I work for luxury houses now. I am doing one now. They’re changing their ways, and how they approach people. For example, they are saying, “The fur we are using for this shoe is not killed animal by us. It was accidentally killed on the road.”
That’s the way fashion is adapting to the new consciousness. It is growing on people. I don’t think I could mention a brand that is from the beginning sustainable, not in the field that I worked because I worked in luxury. I know small brands – 5-10 years old – are born with this idea in mind. It has a chance to work for them. I learned about them in recent years.
I hope to discover more. I work mostly freelance jobs. I would not take a part-time job in H&M. (Laughs) But I hope to do it with something beyond fashion, something beyond style, even if it is not sustainability oriented.
Your general perspective might be of interest to readers. In terms of reasons to get into ethical and sustainable fashion, take, for instance, we have trillions of pieces of micro-plastics in the ocean. The synthetic fibre industry comes out to 60 million tons of output. Natural fibres come out to about 25 million tons. It’s a more than a 2-fold difference in output. We know one of the major contributors to the pollution of the earth are plastics because these materials do not decompose or biodegrade, which is an issue. In the sense that most fibres co-evolved and have enzymes that can break them down – natural fibres, synthetic fibres do not and cannot break down as far as we know about them. These link to climate change or global warming and many other issues.
I try not to be closed to the idea that everything should be made of organics or naturals. I understand plastics are one of the major things that are our waste. I think synthetic fibres will still be part of our wardrobe for sports, winter clothing. We’re always going to have to put some synthetics with them.
Not only natural, I think it’s a matter of balancing that. I believe in the idea of upcycling. I wish to eventually put upcycling into the product. We can reuse rather than minimal plastic materials. There are a few major brands like Puma and sports brands. They re-utilize the materials. I think that will be the answer because, to be honest, I don’t see a world that could be 100% organic.
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