Fashionopolis Quotes

“Killing animals is the most destructive thing you can do in the fashion industry", she told me. "The tanneries, the chemicals, the deforestation, the use of landmass and grain and water, the cruelty - it's a nonstarter. The minute yo are not killing an animal to make a shoe or a bag you are ahead of the game”
― Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

“But her no leather - no fur policy drew fire. Critics charged that faux hides, many of which are petroleum based, were more damaging to the earth than the real stuff.

Bull, said McCartney. "Livestock production is one of the major causes of ... global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity", she shot back, with more than fifty million animals farme and slaughtered each year just to make handbags and shoes. Conventional leather tanning employs heavy metals such as chromium, which results in waste that is toxic to humans.”
― Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

“at a first glance, natural dyes appear to be more expensive than those used for petroleum-derived synthetics, simply because of the higher cost to farm raw materials. But there are "externalities" not included in synthetic's calculation -environmentally damaging ones like fracking and oil spills.”
― Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

“Clothes are our initial and most basic tool of communication. They convey our social and economic status, our occupation, our ambition, our self-worth. They can empower us, Imbue us with sensuality. They can reveal our respect or our disregard for convention.

Shoppers snap up five times more clothing now than they did in 1980. In 2018 that averaged 68 garments a year.

Americans now spend more time on digital media than working or sleeping and much of that time they are looking at or buying fashion.

According to McKinsey, nearly 80% of all luxury purchases are "digitally influenced".

Instagram begat a new pathology called the Cinderella syndrome: the resolute avoidance of being seen in the same outfit twice.

Learning experience = tech talk fora way to harvest data.”
― Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

“IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER of Alabama, across the Tennessee River from R&B recording mecca Muscle Shoals, is Florence, a town of 39,000. Before NAFTA, Florence was the Cotton T-shirt Capital of the World. “They used cotton that was grown around here,” fashion designer Natalie Chanin told me, over heirloom BLTs and iced tea at The Factory Café, her farm-to-table restaurant located in Bldg. 14, one of twenty immense”
― Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

“follow a simple three-step process: use a high-quality liquid or single-dose pods; run a fast cycle with cold water; finish with fabric conditioner. “When you use that regimen, you can actually extend the life of clothes by four times,” he said. “And the environmental impact of that is just amazing; it’s just humongous.”
― Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion – and the Future of Clothes

“In 1991, 56.2% of all clothes purchased in the United States were American-made. By 2012, it was down to 2.5%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 1990 and 2012, the U.S. textile and garment industry lost 1.2 million jobs. That was more than 3/4s the sectors labor force, said it to Latin America and Asia. Once-vibrant industrial centers down the Eastern Seaboard and across the South faded into ghost towns, as factories sat empty and those who were laid off went on unemployment. In the United Kingdom in the 1980s, one million worked in the UK textile industry; now, only 100,000 do. The same went down across most of Western Europe. All of heroin textile jobs globally nearly doubled, from 34.2 million to 57.8 million.”
― Dana Thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

“Shoppers snap up five times more clothing now than they did in 1980.”
― dana thomas, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes