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•The main meaning of sustainability：
It Meets our own needs without harming future development.

Sustainability Fashion:
In the fashion industry, sustainability can be defined as the positive impact of the fashion industry segment on future development and the need to meet the needs of consumers.

•My definition of sustainability：
It is extremely important to maintain a balance between humans and ecology.

•Create examples to illustrate these meanings.

Economic:（Cut poverty)

Poverty reduction is one of the goals of sustainable development, but it requires a long time process. By 2030, ensure that all women and men, especially the poor and vulnerable, have equal access to economic resources, basic services, etc.

Environmental：(Environmental pollution)

Nowadays, The fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world.  For the fashion industry, they can use more environment-friendly fabrics to make clothes, such as linen, silk and other plant fabrics.

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People are changing how they buy clothes. Yes the majority want cheap clothes, but people also care more about the environment. They want to know where the clothes are made, how they are made and what the clothes are made from, example, cotton, polyester...

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Many young people want to follow the latest fashion trends.
Sustainability has become an increasingly important concern in the fashion industry, which faces many challenges. (materials, processes, environment, social responsibility)

1. Substandard quality of clothes

2. Compressed costs and production cycles are forcing suppliers to sacrifice quality and environmental protection

3.Many unsold clothes will be incinerated by them

In recent years, the rapid rise of fast fashion has led to a global fashion trend.
The original intention of fast fashion brands is to meet the needs of the public and launch the product to the market as soon as possible.

various synthetic fabrics are being used to make clothes.

"Fast fashion" has become the “worst-hit area ”of substandard quality. These fast fashions frequently have quality problems and have been punished for quality problems for many times. They will use some cheap fabrics to make clothes,
These clothes are not durable.

and fast fashion stimulates consumers to buy them with low prices. And the factory produces a large number of clothing.
The social rights and interests of factory employees can not be guaranteed. （exploit employees）

easy to cause a waste of resources, which brings pollution to the earth's environment.

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• Which key factors must we consider when we discuss sustainability?

We should consider the positive effects of future development, For example, recycling resources to protect the environment, The reason is that environmental protection and sustainability, sustainable development are inseparable.

• Explain each of these factors and their significance.
recycle (reuse fabric)
It seems to me that those fashion designers can recycle old clothes and remake them. such as patchwork coats of different fabrics.

• Find visual examples to help you show their significance.
“Globally, 80% of discarded textiles are doomed for the landfill or incineration. Only 20% are actually reused or recycled.“ So it is clear that it is extremely important for people to protect the Earth’s environment. After all, the deterioration of the earth's environment is irreversible. What we can do is to take measures to protect it first, so that the negative impact on the earth's environment will be less.

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•Find and create examples to illustrate your ideas.
Water pollution:
Fabric dyeing is the second largest source of water pollution in the world, as wastewater from the dyeing process is often dumped into ditches, rivers, and flows from local rivers to oceans around the world.
The waste water contains toxic substances that are very harmful to aquatic life.
The process of making clothes produces waste water.- micro fibres

Most fashion factories use raw materials to dye will pollute the environment, and I found that basically the clothing industry uses chemical dyes. After all, fabrics and clothing accessories have to undergo dyeing, and clothing dyes and finishing agents contain substances harmful to people, which have a serious impact on water quality.

solution:
in the fashion industry, some brands focus on environment-friendly fabrics and use plant dyes. Although plant dyes have a poor fixation effect, they are environmentally friendly. It does not cause harmful effects on the environment.

Soil pollution:
“Globally, 80% of discarded textiles are doomed for the landfill or incineration. Only 20% are actually reused or recycled.“ Most of the waste clothes are not easy to degrade, and it takes more than two hundred years or even thousands of years to decompose, The waste clothes incinerated in landfills also contain carcinogenic substances.

solution:
Scientists or the textile industry continue to develop more new environmentally friendly fabrics.

social:
The fashion industry should  ensure the rights and safety of factory workers, Transportation of clothing.

It is important to consider whether the production of garments in the factory is hazardous to the health of the factory workers and whether the transportation of the garments may cause pollution to the environment, etc.

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1. reuse fabric - upcycle
The Alexander McQueen brand has considered sustainability and eco-consciousness in their collections in recent years. They use a lot of leftover fabrics from their stock to upcycle these fabrics, as seen in this image of a printed dress made from recycled yarn.
(Alexander McQueen Autumn/winter 2021 collection)

2. donated excess fabric
The Alexander McQueen brand has donated its excess fabric to the students of a number of British fashion colleges in 2021 and helped them complete their Final Collection. This is their second donation of fabric, The fabric donation program begins in 2020.

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•Sustainable Fashion Mind Map：

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Give up or reduce use of real fur and replace it with faux fur.
In sustainability design project, our group's designed the theme of animals protection. Therefore, in the clothing industry I investigated, I think the clothing industry should also take actions to protect animals. Refuse to make and buy fur coats, people should protect animals, they are innocent.
Killing animals will bring about negative effects on the earth, such as global warming, destroying the ecological balance, or animals will die out...
"making a fur coat needs to sacrifice the lives of 40 innocent small animals!"

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should choose durable clothing and materials instead of cheap synthetic fabrics like polyester, nylon and spandex, which can take up to 200 years to fully degrade.

can put your clothes in the used clothing recycling bin and donate them to charity.

try to buy second-hand clothing - these are sustainable ways to shop.

consumers should only buy clothes they like and consider whether the clothes will last for a long time before buying them.

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The Japanese brand MUJI
In my research I found some videos on their website about using plant-based fabrics. Long-staple cotton

ZARA
1.The fast fashion brand ZARA has measures to protect the environment, and their physical shops have used clothes recycling bins.
2.Designers are encouraged to use environmentally friendly or natural materials and they want to pursue environmentally sustainable fashion designs. - transition to 100% sustainable fabrics by 2025.
3. A new technique is used to replace the traditional chemical bleaching technique.

UNIQLO
1. Physical shops also have an environmental project to recycle used clothes, and any brand of used clothes can be recycled.- They donate to refugees.
2. The packing of clothes
Paper shopping bags have replaced plastic bags.

By the end of 2020, they will have reduced the amount of plastic used for shopping bags and packaging materials in Uniqlo shops worldwide by 85%, or approximately 7,800 tonnes per year.

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There may be an unknown side to fast fashion brands. For the vast majority of people non -fashion industry, they only care about the price and style of clothes, but they do not know what the process of making clothes is like. and the salesmen in the store only know how the clothes are sold in the shop but do not know what the production process is like. The advertisers only know how to match the clothes beautifully, so as to arouse consumers' desire to buy, They don't know or care about the story behind the clothes. In fact, the fashion industry chain has brought great disaster to human beings and aquatic environment.

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• How should we consider the issue of sustainability in the arts?
My point of view is that we need to think more so that we can have more inspiration to do art(fashion) design. At the same time, we should consider whether it will have adverse effects on the future environment and society. Therefore,  the art(fashion) industry can use waste materials to create valuable things, so as to realize the sustainability of art(fashion).

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I looked into a product I had at home. At first I didn’t know whether this brand was environmentally friendly or not, so I searched for information on their company’s website. No Green Wash!

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1. Collect information and read sustainable development articles.
2. Take class notes on sustainability project. (make notes on key points)
3. Discuss with my group members to get more inspiration.
4. Write about sustainability and put some ideas on the padlet.
5. Collect relevant visual images of sustainability projects on the Internet.
6. Collect some environment related content.
7.Get inspiration from others' presentations on sustainability projects.

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Sustainability group presentation - A Design Pitch

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Sustainability group presentation - A Design Pitch

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In fact, in order to produce our wallets, handbags and shoes, one estimate suggested the leather industry needs to slaughter 430m cows annually by 2025 to keep up with demand...
Our group designed a backpack about animals protection and environment-friendly materials.

My group's research process:

(1)
01/07/2021
1. Information collection of social issues: ethical and moral aspects, wealth and poverty, etc.
2. Information collection of environmental problems: What environmental problems are the earth facing nowadays.
3. Information collection of environmental protection materials, such as food, wear and use of people's lives.

（2）
02/07/2021
1. My group decided on the general direction of the product design.

2. Drew three design sketches about the product.

Researched data on the resource consumption of luxury goods and what environmentally friendly materials might be used in the design. (Video, picture and data graph, etc.)

（3）
05/07/2021
determined the scheme.

（4）
06/07/2021
Modified sketch design

（5）
15/07/2021
Modified and practiced report