Eco Fashion and Urban Style

Eco Fashion and Urban Style

Eco Fashion and Urban Style

One of the worst misconceptions about sustainable living is that it asks us to return to a life of living in caves and wearing burlap. Of course, this is far from true. Rather than shunning technology, realistic (and pleasant) green lifestyles use technological progress as an advantage. Like sustainable living in general, the future of eco-fashion will rely on innovation and technology to propel earth-consciousness from an alternative way of life to being the norm for everyone.

The Internet has revolutionized many facets of modern life and fashion is no exception. One key effect is the web's power to connect people all over the world. This has meant that brands can reach a much wider crop of customers and the fashion market became a global community, of sorts. On the production side of the coin being connected allows eco-conscious designers to connect with other links in the fashion chain that are also committed to sustainability. The web site source4style.com lets designers and retailers search a database and connect with the world's top sustainable suppliers and service providers. Whereas just a few years ago a would-be eco-fashion designer might have been dissuade by sourcing difficulties, sites like source4style now allow even newbies to get into the game while maintaining their values.

While the web is clearly a here-to-stay part of modern life, other advances are still trying to get a foothold. One sector that's on the cusp of revolution is manufacturing. According to the NY Times, up to 15% of all fabric used to produce apparel ends up in the landfill. That's an enormous amount of waste! Innovation is pattern making and production equipment are seeking to reduce or eliminate this waste as part of the so-call "zero-waste" movement. Below, a new technique by Siddhartha Upadhyaya creates pieces of a blazer that were not cut from cloth, but woven precisely into the required shapes needed to construct the garment.

One of the major barriers to making the method mainstream is that the current machinery in clothing factories around the world would have to be completely revamped or replaced, which means large overhead costs for manufacturing companies. But the tide is turning, as evidenced by the inclusion of Zero Waste design classes as reputable fashion schools like Parsons in New York City. A new generation of designers is being taught to see their craft in a whole new way and over time, the industry dinosaurs will be forced to evolve or perish.

Another way to make a garment sustainable is to ensure that it maintains its aesthetic and structural integrity for as long as possible. One new technology that addresses this effort is a permanent dye from a company called DyeCat, which bonds itself to fabrics at a molecular level. This means that your bright clothes will stay bright, conceivably, forever and they won't ruin your lights by bleeding into the rest of your laundry.

Ultimately, all of our modern conveniences were at one time new and strange to a world that can appear resistant to the inevitability of change. But as more people begin to understand the importance and value of sustainability fashion that's earth-friendly will begin to be the norm.

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