Not so fast, fashion
How to be fashionable and equitable while saving the planet from climate change.
By Kimberly Atkins Stohr
Rags to runway
Meet the innovative designers who are offsetting the climate impacts of fast fashion.
Reduce, repair,
respect
A new sketchbook
From wardrobe
to waste
Designing woman
Polls show that consumers want to buy clothes that are better for the planet, but can they?
Fashion students are focused on threats to the climate as well as racial and social justice. Schools need to catch up.
Some brands have exploded in popularity, producing tons of cheap clothing that is toxic to the earth.
How bad is it?
How my life changed when I realized
my clothes
were killing
the planet.
Right: From the BUZIGAHILL June 2023 collection.
Underlay:
Detail of ANYBAG material
Thrifting at The Garment District in Cambridge.
Whitney McGuire, cofounder of Sustainable Brooklyn.
Sewing machine owned by Kimberly Atkins Stohr's grandmother
Underlay: Pattern design by Kimberly Atkins Stohr
H. Hopp-Bruce, Adobe
BUZIGAHILL, ANYBAG
Erin Clark/
Globe staff; Adobe
+ What you can do
Anjelica Jardiel, Adobe
Erin Clark/Globe staff, Adobe