Session 3 – Perspective
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Jennifer Arrington (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/07/15
Now, we’ve covered a little about your background about what motivates you and inspires you, and we’ve covered some of the background of Karma Trik. This comes into your own perspective sustainable fashion and ethical fashion. What are your perspectives on them?
Sustainable fashion seems inevitable. It seems like it is a necessity. I’m glad that we are starting now when it is not an absolute dire emergency, necessity. I hope – I am hopeful – that we can get to a point where everything is sustainable and circular. So that we’re not in a crisis situation, ever.
There’s definitely a part of me that can see the doomsday situation. I don’t operate or live that way. It’s not on my mind a lot of the time. While we have resources and we’re not in dire straits, let’s take care of what we have, it’s not environmental alone. It is a necessity when it comes to the treatment of humans and who is making the clothing.
The working conditions that are humane. I think the sustainable fashion movement needs to happen now. I am glad that I am here at a time where I feel like it is starting to become a part of the mainstream conversation, but then there’s people when I use the phrase “sustainable fashion” that give me th blank stare.
Because I am in the space and constantly reading about it, and everyone I follow on Twitter is on that space, it is easy to tell that everyone knows about this – not everyone knows that H&M has a sustainable line, but some people believe that it’s green washing. They think that there’s no way that they can use all of the fabric that they say they’re taking back.
That conversation, not everyone is thinking. Not everyone knows what it is, it is hard for people to find, in a mainstream store, sustainable fashion. I think we’re at that tipping point. I’m glad to be a part of that point. I feel like within ten years that it will be a given. It isn’t a household word, yet. I am glad to be part of the conversation at this point.
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