Vogue Patterns, August 2013

Vogue Patterns, August 2013

Creating With a Conscience

"Sustainability is a complex concept to understand and apply in any business, let alone one as quickly changing as fashion. The notion of sustainable fashion can even seem paradoxical: How can fashion ever be responsible with its focus on novelty and inbuilt obsolescence? Yet a new wave of independent designers whose businesses are based on an appreciation of craftsmanship, quality materials, and ethical production of fewer, higher-quality, longer-lasting, and cherished products is a testament to change."