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Positive: Inclusivity (social justice)

Challenge:

Not everyone has access to technology, which Secludes people from lower-income countries and backgrounds from getting involved in digital fashion and play.

(sunita)

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Positive:

Digital fashion can help impact environmental concerns associated with traditional

garment making in the current rapid production, consumption and disposal of clothing

that end up in landfills in the global south whose homes and environments have been

affected by huge landfills. Digital fashion may help increase conscious consumption.

It minimises the need for physical manufacturing/labour, reduces waste and consumption of

resources and moves towards eco-friendly practices.

Challenge:

Digital fashion doesn’t eliminate environmental impact of sustainable

garment production, 3d software and platforms used for consumers to view,

use and buy these intangible garments still require energy and resources.

(sunita)

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Positive:

Digital fashion opens opportunities for increased inclusivity within the fashion industry and consumers.

A diverse range of creators can showcase their work without barriers of race, age and gender.

Possibilities of materials, silhouettes and sizes are endless, as opposed to certain limitations with “real” garments.

This also facilitates individuals to express their identity through virtual fashion and spaces

without physical limitations.

Challenge:

everyone can not access high-quality technology. It can also be complicated to

navigate and expensive therefore for designers who have limited access to technology

or are not as tech-savvy could be excluded from evolving fashion.

(sunita)

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Diverse perspectives based on social justice

Environmental Protection

When the fashion industry uses plastic for concepts and hardware, the waste generated can harm the environment. This concern is an important aspect of social justice and can undermine the right of all members of society to enjoy a healthy environment.

Economic Fairness

The use of plastic in the fashion industry can enable the production of cheaper products, providing economic benefits to consumers. However, this often takes the form of exploiting workers in low-wage countries, which can infringe upon the fair treatment and rights of workers. Furthermore, during these processes, workers may be exposed to harmful chemicals without proper protective equipment. This poses a threat to the health and safety of the workers and can be seen as a violation of their human rights.

Sustainable Consumption

The fashion industry is being encouraged to use sustainable materials to replace plastic. This is based on the principle of social justice that it is important to protect the rights of future generations and to ensure that current consumption behaviors do not threaten future resources.

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Milena - MOST ENRIONMENTALLY FRIENDLY METALS:

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Milena - MOST ENRIONMENTALLY FRIENDLY METALS:

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Scrap metal, recycled metal, steel and aluminium.

To produce large quantities of a metal like iron, aluminium, or copper, two distinct operations are required:

·         Extracting an ore (a deposit consisting usually of a huge amount of useless rock and smaller amounts of useful metals) from a mine or quarry.

·         Refining the ore to get the metals away from their oxides (or other compounds) into the pure form that we need.

How Is Metal Made? (austgen.com.au)

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Milena - MOST SUSTAINABLE FRIENDLY WOODS:

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Milena - MOST SUSTAINABLE FRIENDLY WOODS:

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Bamboo, White Ash, Oak, Mahogany, Maple, Teak Black Cherry, Pine, Douglas Fir, Ebony, Burmese Teak, Merbau, Wenge, Brazilian Mahogany.

Most Sustainable Woods (And Which Types Of Wood To AVOID) (woodworkingtrade.com)

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Linen tends to have a much heavier, more textured look as compared to cotton

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Fabric swatches (right3 linen, rest cotton) 

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Fabric swatches (right3 linen, rest cotton) 

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Circumfauna's findings should be enough to encourage a shift away from leather, says Håkansson, because - regardless of whether leather is or isn't a sustainable byproduct of meat - it is part of the financial model that makes the current meat industry work. Without profits from leather, she says, it weakens the growth of the sector. Slaughterhouses have struggled when leather prices have fallen, for instance. By avoiding leather, she says, "you're not adding another income stream to that slaughterhouse that's releasing those emissions on the farm."

Senior says that around the world, on average, the hide only accounts for about 1 per cent of an animal's total economic value. "No one's rearing cattle for that 1 per cent," he says. He adds, though, that the leather industry is inextricably linked with the meat sector. "You take away the meat industry, the leather industry disappears. That's inevitable. But while people eat meat, there'll be hides and skins."

For Collective Fashion Justice, reducing the use of leather is just the beginning. The vegan advocacy group is working with the Center for Biological Diversity on a report about the connections between wool production and biodiversity loss, to be released in July, and will publish data on fur and silk in the future.

But given the urgency of climate change, Håkansson wants fashion to focus on the elimination of leather now because its use is so ubiquitous.

To put the environmental impact of leather into terms the average person can understand, Circumfauna calculated that the amount of water used in producing one leather handbag was equal to the amount a person needs to drink to stay healthy over a 23-year period. A leather jacket, the group says, is equal to 176 kg of carbon-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.

"I began calculating these numbers because I believe that they are far more accessible and relevant to consumers and designers than enormous, industry wide statistics," Håkansson says.

"A really clear takeaway message is that we probably shouldn't be wearing the cowskin leather jacket if we're concerned about climate."

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Leather: Sustainable fashion's big debate

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Circumfauna's findings should be enough to encourage a shift away from leather, says Håkansson, because - regardless of whether leather is or isn't a sustainable byproduct of meat - it is part of the financial model that makes the current meat industry work. Without profits from leather, she says, it weakens the growth of the sector.

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(The difference between fur use within communities who don’t waste and see animals as sacred and mass waste industry farms that are cruel to animals and see them as tools. Exploring the fact these things started being more prevalent in industry during colonialism of native people and disrespecting their way of life and the animals that live wild. These colonial traits translate to consumerism now.)

In reference to ‘Why animal suffering matters’ by Andrew Linzey, we live through institutions and are gauged by them within our own identities. From birth, corporations define elements of our lives in some form or another, influencing our morals via socialisation and isolation tactics. Regarding animals, we all have unique perspectives on their suffering and the role of animals in our society. The fact that this topic is a debate is evidence that we do not truly understand the causality of animal products, as more and more people educate themselves on the cost of their choices.

The treatment and abuse of animals in consumerist society is based upon a bedrock of profit and institutionalisation, as previously stated, corporations understand very well that they require control of the consumers morals in one way or another. The only solution is to raise awareness of the true nature of animal products within fur farms, provoking thought and reconsideration of more sustainable solutions despite how integrated the usage of these products is in society.

As a species we are aware of the nature of animal sentience. The conditions within factory farms are cruel and an expression of mankind’s hubris. The sick irony that we criticise and debate the ethics of god or a deity and then proceed to sentence other beings to short confined spaces before killing them for the sake of pleasure when we look in the mirror.

Sustainability is a noteworthy feature of communal and nature centric ways of life. An example of this can be found in Native American culture, where an animal life taken was something that provided shelter, food, clothing, religious importance and medicine to the people. The basic principle of avoiding any waste and showing respect on a spiritual level is in stark contrast to those who would oppose them during the colonisation of North America. The colonisers understood that by treating the sacred buffalo as a trophy, selling its fur, shooting them for sport or to intimidate and harm emotionally, that they would hurt the people who held the buffalo dear - hurting them physically and emotionally. And this illustrates to us just how choices and morals can impact the lives of millions today, as well as foreshadowing what we do on a daily basis, choosing desire and meaningless vanity over purpose and utility like smaller spiritual communities do. Another example of colonial animal slaughter is the near extinction of tigers in India perpetrated by the British Raj. Tigers were trophy hunted and even had head value. This was not only done for the entertainment of colonists, but also to spite the Indian people who have a holy connection with tigers of which’s population is still trying to struggle today many years later. The idea of animals having value is oddly subjective, but loss of life is both environmentally and culturally condemned all over the world.

57 million mink and fox lives are taken to meet the demand for their skin and fur. Their lives are wasted and ended abruptly, and for meaningless wasteful byproducts that only serve us in cosmetic ways. Universally, animals live in squalor and face methods of execution including electrocution, cervical dislocation, poisoning and being gassed. The most appalling element of these methods is that they are accepted methods in the various industries that profit off of animal suffering. Specialists in the field of animal warfare have long since advised and pushed for a universal standard of care and quality of life for animals to be adopted and legally enforced, basic needs like space and interaction with their own kind. But unfortunately more often than not these standards cannot be met due to a lack of concern or knowledge from those who consume the byproduct of this abomination.

As we progress, it is a responsibility for any individual to know the supplier and source of these products, and to look into smaller businesses that source second hand fur. Plastic faux fur is not a preferred solution as it is unsustainable due to the use of materials that feed landfill. And more often than not, slave labour is used to make it in toxic chemical conditions leading to long term health issues for these workers. Even within natural fur production, fur is usually treated with something leading it to be non biodegradable.  With renewed technologies, the biomaterial industry is steadily gaining interest from consumers. For example, Gacha fur who use recycled plastic from oceans, who also work on vegetable derived furs, are guilty free to support and fund as they develop their furs until they are completely sustainable. It is also good to source from small businesses and communities who are ethical in practice and upcycle.

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traditional tanning process

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Noa Nomad visual research part 5 "The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment" - Circa 1820 – 1870

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Noa Nomad visual research part 5 "The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment" - Circa 1820 – 1870

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Noa Nomad visual research part 4 "The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment" - Circa 1820 – 1870

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Noa Nomad visual research part 4 "The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment" - Circa 1820 – 1870

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Noa Nomad visual research part 3 "The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment" - Circa 1820 – 1870

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Noa Nomad visual research part 3 "The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment" - Circa 1820 – 1870

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Noa Nomad visual research part 2 "The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment" - Circa 1820 – 1870

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Noa Nomad visual research part 2 "The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment" - Circa 1820 – 1870