#fashionopolis

[sleepnoises]

ranking of fabric books ive read in the last five years

fashionopolis: the price of fast fashion and the future of clothes = fabric: the hidden history of the natural world > vanishing fleece > women's work: the first 2000 years > worn: a people's history of clothing > unraveling: what i learned about life while shearing sheep, dyeing wool, and making the world's ugliest sweater

[poppletonink]

Cher Horowitz Reads

Emma by Jane Austen

Cher's Guide To... Whatever by H.B. Gilmour

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter

What A Time To Be Alone by Chidera Eggerue

Valley Of The Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Overdressed by Elizabeth L. Cline

Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa

[pizzettauniversale]

Ciao pizzetta, mi consigli libri sul fast fashion per chi ha già una sufficiente conoscenza dell’argomento e non deve proprio partire dalle basi?

Non so, dipende che cosa vuoi sapere. Più che libri ci sono un sacco di articoli interessanti.

C’è Il lato oscuro della moda. Viaggio negli abusi ambientali (e non solo) del fast fashion di Maxine Bedat

Il famosissimo, ma un po’ vecchio Fashionopolis. The price of fast fashion & The Future of Clothes di Dana Thomas

The world in on fire but we’re still buying shoes di Alec Leach

[azspot]

Longtime style reporter Dana Thomas’s book, Fashionopolis, is an indictment of the true costs of fashion—like poisoned water, crushed workers, and overflowing landfills—that never make it onto the price tag of a dress or pair of jeans. Between 2000 and 2014, the annual number of garments produced doubled to 100 billion: 14 new garments per person per year for every person on the planet. The average garment is only worn seven times before being tossed—assuming it’s not one of the 20 billion clothing items that go unsold and unworn. It’s no surprise, then, that the fashion industry accounts for at least 10 percent of global carbon emissions and 20 percent of all industrial water pollution. Though the industry employs one out of every six people globally, fewer than two percent of them earn a living wage—more than 98 percent of workers are not only underpaid, they also toil in unsafe, unsanitary conditions. But change is underfoot: retailers are shifting their supply models, circular and slow fashion are on the rise, and new technology is making the manufacture of new and recycled fabrics cleaner.

Dying for Fashion

[drivelikeaminister]

Living My Faith

Guest post ahead!

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How do we get our day to day actions to more closely align with our goals and ideals? This is a question I have asked myself and I'm sure many others have as well. There are some of us who are ready to make drastic changes. But I find lots of time life happens and change requires planning ahead and more “work.” If the change is small and straightforward it has a higher chance of adoption.

“Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part,” is a great concept, but as an idea alone there will be no change. To live my beliefs I am taking action outside of my day job, with a project called Napkind. Limiting single use plastics was my goal, but I struggled with disposal utensils. There was no easy option. But I didn't like the current options for traveling with my own silverware; they were too bulky, too hard to clean, or wasteful and made out of plastic. I ended up designing my own utensils pouch incorporating a napkin made out of upcycled fabric - and Napkind was born. The upcycled fabric was also a conscious decision. The shocking statistic is that the average garment gets worn seven times before it gets thrown out (from Fashionopolis).

With this small concrete step, others can be empowered to make changes well. Hopefully “How can I?” becomes “I can.”

Contact information for Napkind: the.napkind@gmail.com www.napkind.org @the_napkind on Instagram

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Thanks #napkind! If you (the reader) have an idea for a post, a product you produce or buy... anything which helps you live your faith and values - let me know! I'm always open for guest posts or collaborative posts.

[sleepnoises]

I think Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes (2019) by Dana Thomas, supplemented by Worn: A People's History of Clothing (2022) by Sofi Thanhauser and Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (2022) by Victoria Finlay, are not bad for "real documentation" btw

Will any of them open to one page that provides a precise summary of current manufacturing conditions: No. Will these books help a reader in 2024 understand the difficulty and tradeoffs of making good fabric, much less affordable good fabric: Maybe a little

so many articles about Fast Fashion, not enough articles about what the hell is happening to the quality of clothes

Like okay. People own more pieces of clothing nowadays and they wear them a lesser number of times before throwing them out. BUT.

Why do we pretend like this is pure vanity or careless wastefulness, rather than forced by the qualities of the clothes themselves?

The other day, I was going through boxes of old clothes in the basement in search of fabric to practice sewing on. The difference in quality of the fabrics themselves is shocking! The worn-out old jeans from twenty years ago are MUCH thicker and tougher than anything more recent. My old baby clothes are made as sturdy as my work clothes from today.

In the past couple years, I have had entire seams rip out of clothes on the first wash. That's not normal!

Polyester blend shirts that feel cozy and soft when they are new, become scratchy and rough after 20 washes or so. I am trying to avoid polyester, but it gets harder and harder; the other day i couldn't find a single pack of crew socks that was 100% cotton. SOCKS!

Also, pilling is out of control. The newest pants I bought developed pills within a single day of walking around campus with a backpack.

These companies are trying to frog-boil us but touching clothes from twenty years ago, the useless crap of today would stick out like a sore thumb...

[letloverule1111]

Tag someone you want to get to know better.

Thanks for tagging me @myheartalivewrites ! ❤️

favorite color: In general choosing favorites feels very constricting to me! However, I love white, red, and pink. I used to hate purple which is fucking weird. Thank god I'm over that. Love purple.

last song: Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve. A go to lift-me-up.

last movie: I am currently re-watching all the Marvel films...I last watched The Avengers, Age of Ultron and am currently watching Ant-Man. The last film in the theater I watched was the Taylor Swift film of the Eras concert.

currently watching: Movie--Ant-Man. TV: just finished Loki. Started the second season of Heartstopper and for some reason I cannot get through it! Help! Started re-watching Sex Education. And always go back to Schitt's Creek, Community, and Parks and Rec...

other stuff I watched this year: Bridgerton, Mission Impossible, The Witcher, Never Have I Ever, Derry Girls, Young Royals...that's all I can think of right now!

shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: Cannot get through season 2 of Heartstopper...sigh.

currently reading: My fiction is pretty much all fanfic right now. But nonfiction I'm reading is Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas, The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner, and Pussy, a Reclamation by Regina Thomashauer (this is actually a re-read!)

currently listening to: I feel that a well crafted pop song is something that is highly underrated and hard to do well. Just saying. I am loving my Day List from Spotify in general. I think Olivia Rodrigo's new album is seriously genius and I don't say that lightly. I always love Taylor Swift. But also I have a rotation of things like Squeeze, Radiohead, and Fleetwood Mac! I'm ecclectic.

currently working on: Okay. @historicallysam knows that I secretly want to write a fic. I have three fics that I've started and it is unclear if I will ever finish them because I feel like I don't really know how to write a story. But I'm having fun!

One is a Henry in the Stripperverse story because I am in love with that au. In it, the strip club that Henry worked at (that's super cheesy) gets closed down and he gets hired by Zahra at the strip club that Alex works at (that's super fancy) and Alex is pissed because he's the star of that club...plus Liam just dumped him and Alex is feeling insecure. It's a whole thing.

Another is Alex and Henry dated in college but Henry dumped Alex and left NYC and Alex was devastated. Years later he's working at the ACLU and his boss introduces him to his new partner on a case--Henry. Alex is in another relationship, in love, and considering moving in with him but obviously Henry showing up throws a big ole wrench into that..

Lastly, a one-shot where Alex is a Thai Massage Therapist and Henry is a new client that's come in with a groin injury. Yup. ;)

That was fun to share those here because this may be the extent to which they are ever shown to the world!

current obsession: RWRB (swooning, clutching my heart, throwing myself onto my bed while sighing.)

Tagging @historicallysam AND if you're reading this and feel inspired to answer, please tag me and let me know!

[secretairwithinagarden]

Slow fashion

No whole sales, production made to order, locally grown raw material, local work force.

Community and sustainability at its core.

Online stores, festivals that celebrate the local culture, production,arts and food.

Not only a garment is sold, a life style comes along with it.

"I think the people that are going to be successful in the US today are those who are completely vertical _ who offer an entire culture and vision". Billy Reid

Interesting fact : military uniforms have to be made in the US - federal laws forbid offshoring of such work.

Main centres of slow fashion : Florence and Nashville

Notes based on Fashionopolis by the amazing Dana Thomas.

[seaofthesunsurfer]

Without ART the EARTH is just EH. So clever. Which I would’ve thought of it. But on the flip, if we don’t have the earth, we don’t have art. We all have our things and topics we care about. I have a tendency to learn towards issues that affect our connection to self, our connection to nature and the planet and our connection to each other. I’m doing a lot of research and reading, right now, about closed loop fashion and consumer behavior—fast fashion, slow fashion and high end fashion. The book Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas sheds light on all aspects of fashion, the good, the bad and the ugly. This book is suitable for anyone and everyone especially anyone who makes anything out of textiles i.e. bandanas, hats, tees, flags, socks, jackets, pants, towels, blankets, etc... Or anyone that wears clothes! 😉 I highly recommend it! . . . . . . #slowfashion #fashionopolis #fastfashion #fashionforgood #unmade #earth #environmentalart #digitalart #typography #goodtype #handlettering #oceanguardian #organicfarming #sunsurfer #wave #surfart #peacelove #peacelovehope #sunset https://www.instagram.com/p/CMIH6BXB0Bp/?igshid=on19z5k7a6ts

[dopeskeletonspyzine]

I know no one reads my posts but I'm reading Fashionopolis for my Sustainability in Fashion class and chapter 4 and 5, oh man, it finally made me believe that fashion can be ethical and I haven't felt this happy or excited in a while. In my head I was like "itspossibleitspossibleitspossible" and knowing it's not a pipe dream and that other people have done it already, that's enough for me to sprint towards my dream of having my own ethical and sustainable brand and I'm not looking back

[sleepnoises]

i am going to a wedding next weekend where instead of a conventional registry they want an inscribed copy of one's favorite book. what should i get them. one half of the couple got into and left an education phd and the other is doing some kind of robotics phd. there are no constraints besides "favorite"

these results are not binding

[zeromcornejo]

Maria is chatting with friend and author @danathomasparis on IG Live today! Tune in at 1pm ET / 10am PT. #fashionopolis #zeromariacornejo https://www.instagram.com/p/B_m-MOIjOTA/?igshid=xcud65iylrcy

[camerondecades]

⁣ Join me Saturday night on IG Live at 6 pm EST for #𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧 and twenty questions with my debut guest, @matthew_yokobosky, Senior Curator, Fashion and Material Culture of @brooklynmuseum. ⁣ ⁣ In an effort to inspire, entertain, and educate, my Instagram Live schedule is:⁣ ⁣ All Times 6 pm EST⁣ ⁣ Monday, March 30th #𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐊𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐳 with @rachel.elspeth.gross ⁣ Wednesday, April 1st #𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧 and twenty questions with costume jewelry expert Carlos King of @gallery24jewelry ⁣ Thursday, April 2nd #𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐊𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐳 with @rachel.elspeth.gross ⁣ Saturday, April 4th #𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧 and twenty questions with fashion journalist and #Fashionopolis author @danathomasparis. ⁣ If you have any ideas for fashion history subjects on #CoutureKibbitz or creative guests to answer twenty questions on #CandidCameron, please share. ⁣ ⁣ During these extremely fraught times, community had never been more important. However, as we self-distance, we must create a virtual community so please tag your creative friends and art lovers. I’d love to connect about my particular loves of fashion and performing arts. ⁣ ⁣ We are together while we are apart.⁣ ⁣ Love,⁣ ⁣ Cameron ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #StayHome #IStayHomeForYou #Fashion #FashionHistory #CostumeJewelry #SustainableFashion #PerformingArts #LiveTheatre⁣ @decadesinc (at West Chester, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-PlDDsB_bB/?igshid=t4zwzckta3z0

[roseapodaca]

With the #ClimateStrike within eyeshot, a surprise has arrived…my dear colleague in #journalism + gal in rosé-fueled adventures @DanaThomasParis’ latest: #Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes. For the love of life and planet, READ THIS NOW. I got a peek last summer while she was on a mad deadline to finish it—and Andy, #NinaNoo and I invaded the glorious spread outside St. Tropez that she and her wonderful husband Hervé brought back to life, from vegetable garden to vintage 1968 gold Mustang. Looking forward to reading Fashionopolis again and again. What she painstakingly reports on within this book matters. And if you haven’t read Dana’s 2007 mindblowing prequel of sorts, #Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, do. Dana loves fashion. But she also reveals the dark side to our collective passion for it. Let’s try to do better. 🌎 #DanaThomas #talentedfriends #climatecrisis #therevolutionbeginswithyou #fashion #fashionbook #fastfashionsucks #recyclereusereduce #lavieenrose https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hf-2nJlbz/?igshid=82xgc741xs7e

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2020:

Are We Good Enough? by Pyotr Kropotkin

Claudine by Riyoko Ikeda

Sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas

My Androgynous Boyfriend Vol. 1 by Tamekou

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1 by Nagata Kabi

Nameless Asterism Vol. 1 by Kina Kobayashi

Nameless Asterism Vol. 2 by Kina Kobayashi

Nameless Asterism Vol. 3 by Kina Kobayashi

[Image Description: A photoset of the covers of the aforementioned books, except for the first one. End image description.]

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

More than 60 percent of fabric fibers are now synthetics, derived from fossil fuels, so if and when our clothing ends up in a landfill (about 85 percent of textile waste in the United States goes to landfills or is incinerated), it will not decay.