How To Break Up With Fast Fashion Quotes

“Textile production produces an estimated 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) per year, which is more than international flights and maritime shipping combined.35”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“In April 2019, H&M announced that it was doing just this – customers can now scan a tag in-store and see a garment’s whole production history.150”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“of circulation, they’re sold on, with subscribers getting first dibs.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Rather than renting individual items, Onloan sends you a regular delivery of clothes to wear for a month, then return. After the clothes are taken out”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“wearing new clothes, not the ownership of them’.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“One is Onloan, the fashion subscription service co-founded by Natalie Hasseck and Tamsin Chislett. ‘On average, customers lose that exciting “new” feeling after a month,’ explains Hasseck. ‘On subscription you can experience that new feeling month on month – without the guilt.’ One of the company’s core beliefs is that ‘the dopamine hit comes from the thrill of discovering and”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“PS Remember single-fibre fabrics are far easier to recycle than mixed fibres, so it’s better to choose 100 per cent silk, 100 per cent cotton or even 100 per cent polyester over fabric blends. But if you fall in love with a mongrel, that’s okay – just be prepared to love it, keep it, or pass it on in one piece.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Hemp Marijuana’s sober cousin is out to redeem its dreary sandal-wearing reputation. Requiring no pesticides, very little water and comparatively small amounts of land to grow, there’s no doubt as to hemp’s environmental credentials – but its style kudos is looking up too. New, refined production means the days of rough hessian textures are over, and there are countless brands using it to make clothes that are more hip, less hippie. Inhale at leisure.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Cupro A vegan alternative to silk with the same luxury feel, Cupro is made from linter, a by-product of cotton that would normally be wasted. Manufactured in a closed-loop system, which means the chemicals and wastewater used in its production are reused again and again, it’s also biodegradable, easily recycled and machine-washable. ‘Dry clean only’ can do one.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“3. ECONYL Currently making a splash in the swimwear world, ECONYL is going to great lengths to help solve the problem of ocean pollution. The regenerated nylon is made from fishing nets and industrial plastic waste dredged up from oceans and landfill around the world, and its inventors claim it can be infinitely recycled without losing quality or purity.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“TENCEL™ The brand name for lyocell or modal fibres, TENCEL™ is made from wood pulp, like viscose, and shares the same smooth, slippy properties. But unlike most viscose, it uses trees from sustainably managed plantations and a closed-loop method in which solvents are recycled again and again with as little as 1 per cent wasted. TENCEL™ uses less water to produce than cotton, and is 50 per cent more absorbent too, making it ideal for sportswear or any other potentially sweaty situations.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Material values Five exciting fabrics to look out for. 1. Piñatex This vegan alternative to leather is made from pineapple leaves, which would normally end up burned or discarded. Unlike PVC ‘cruelty-free’ leather, which is toxic both to make and discard, Piñatex is biodegradable, waste-reducing, and allows pineapple farmers in the Philippines to earn extra income on their crops. It’s less expensive than real leather too, with a pleasingly distressed finish that will save you years of ‘breaking in’ time.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“ethical fashion brands”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Good On You (goodonyou.eco) is currently the world’s leading source for fashion sustainability ratings. Led by campaigners, scientists, academics and industry insiders, the Good On You directory features 2,200 brands at the time of writing, all rated by a five-point system that takes into account more than fifty different certification schemes and standards. Child labour, modern slavery, worker safety, living wages, energy use, carbon emissions, water consumption, chemical waste, animal welfare – it’s all represented.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Zara, a brand that produces around 10,000 new designs a year,”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“The ancient Japanese art of sashiko is all the rage among modern-day sewists and quilters, using thick, contrasting thread (traditionally white on dark fabric) to turn repairs into mini works of art, with bold geometric patterns in stitching that’s supposed to be seen.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Happily there are ways to keep costs down and sustainable kudos up – like Lofty Frocks’ vintage fabric library, or the growing numbers of free patterns and tutorials available to download from sites like Hobbycraft and so-sew-easy.com. You can always do a Sound of Music with an old pair of curtains (try charity shops), or follow the lead of blogger Kari Greaves, @east_london_style, who upcycles vintage finds into entirely new pieces, like a kind of glam high-fashion Dr Frankenstein.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“The #30Wears challenge was started by ethical campaigner Livia Firth, co-founder of consultancy Eco Age, as a rule of thumb for more sustainable shopping. Before you buy anything, ask yourself: will I wear it thirty times?”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“The most sustainable garment is the one already in your wardrobe.’ – Orsola de Castro”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Sophie Slater has advice for persistent style crushes. ‘If you’re addicted to something like Pinterest or Instagram and you see things that you like, make a mental note or write it down,’ she says. ‘Then go back to your own wardrobe and think, “Have I got something like this already? Do I need it? Is it going to make me happier? What can I style it with? Can I wear it with five other things that are in my wardrobe?”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“there is at least seven times more womenswear than menswear in the world’s supply of used clothing.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“It would mean unpicking a lot of social conditioning, sure. But to be able to look at a piece of clothing, like it, appreciate it as a gorgeous object, and not feel that stomach-wrenching desire to possess it – that would be a triumph. And the flipside. If something ticks all three boxes: like, want, need, how much more will we love it and appreciate it once it’s ours?”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“The way I see it, every single item you own, you are responsible for. Whether it’s a tiny thing or a big thing . . . even if it’s at the back of a cupboard. It’s still this tiny little speck in your brain.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Burberry incinerated £28.6 million of unsold stock in 2017 alone.66 These vanity bonfires aren’t uncommon among luxury brands. They’d rather £28.6 million of perfectly good product went up in smoke than see their brand cheapened a cent by discounted sales to the ‘wrong’ sort of customer.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“1.​Textile production produces an estimated 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2e per year, which is more than international flights and maritime shipping combined.47 2.​The average person buys 60 per cent more items of clothing than they did just fifteen years ago, and keeps them for about half as long.48 3.​By 2030, global clothing consumption is projected to rise by 63 per cent, from 62 million tonnes to 102 million tonnes. That’s equivalent to more than 500 billion extra T-shirts.49 4.​By 2050, the equivalent of almost three earths could be required to provide the natural resources it would take to sustain our current lifestyles.50 5.​A polyester shirt has more than double the carbon footprint of a cotton shirt.51 And yet the cotton needed to make a single T-shirt can take 2,700 litres of water to grow – that’s enough drinking water to last a person three years.52 6.​At its current rate, the fashion industry is projected to use 35 per cent more land to grow fibres by 2030. That’s an extra 115 million hectares of land that could otherwise be used to grow food, or left to protect biodiversity.53 7.​Approximately 80 per cent of workers in the global garment industry are women aged 18–35.54 But only 12.5 per cent of clothing companies have a female CEO.55 8.​Among seventy-one leading retailers in the UK, 77 per cent believe there is a likelihood of modern slavery (forced labour) occurring at some stage in their supply chains.56 9.​More than 90 per cent of workers in the global garment industry have no possibility of negotiating their wages and conditions.57 10.​Increasing the price of a garment in the shop by 1 per cent could be enough to pay the workers who made it a living wage.58”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Reportedly 33 per cent of women now consider clothes ‘old’ after wearing them three times.43”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“In 2013, journalist Lucy Siegle worked out that it would take H&M 12 years to recycle 1,000 tonnes of clothing. That’s about the same volume it churns out in 48 hours.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“Clothes in landfill can take as long as two hundred years to decompose, with synthetic fabrics like polyester still leaching plastic microfibres into the environment long after they’re dead and buried.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is the world’s leading standard for fabric, guaranteeing that a product with their stamp of approval contains at least 70 per cent organic natural fibres, features no heavy metals, toxic dyes, pesticides or PVC, and has been made to a stringent list of human rights criteria.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

“A 2017 report found that parts of India’s Chambal River now run ‘dark black water with streaks of red and an intense smell of rotting radishes’, thanks to carbon disulphide, a chemical routinely used in the production of viscose.40 Viscose waste has been linked to the death of fish and aquatic life, as well as myriad health problems including skin burns, Parkinson’s, heart attack, stroke, cancer and birth defects.”
― Lauren Bravo, How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good