But then you have the need for innovation, for change, for personal evolution, which is what eco-conscious fashion companies are striving to provide their customers. Using sustainable materials and responsible practices, many companies are doing what they can.

And then there’s price point. Will consumers pay more for the truly ethical and sustainable products? Or just the seemingly eco-friendly ones that are being mass-produced by the big boxes? Companies are trying to bring down the costs of items, but can the large ones do that without sacrificing other ethics? Like the use of cheap labor, mass production, and international commerce?

I love fashion. I love design. And I love the planet and its inhabitants. But until fashion designers and companies can genuinely change their practices, we’re going to become victims of clever marketing and greenwashing.

I think eco fashion do make a difference. Now people are really realising the situation of global warming.

Even on our part of world(in China). The government is taking steps to eliminate emission. I am a product designer, we are also thinking to use eco product design on our door mat product.

Regards,
Steven

I think of all the people I’ve known over the years who “did their own thing”, and were “hippie-dippie”, and they were treated like space aliens by the general public. Now it’s trendy to be “green”, and there is such an elitist attitude attached to this grassroots movement. Especially with Fashion.

I work for an Holistic Practitioner in the Chicago area, and most of our clients are horribly allergic to just about anything. We use glass bottle IV’s for our therapies, which are just about impossible to find (and most think incredibly archaic), and many of our clients wear only natural fibers, hemp, organic cotton, bamboo (not wool- too allergenic no matter what people say), and they wear these fibers because their systems just can’t handle the various manmade fibers, harsh dyes, etc. They also spend most of their money on alternative practitioners to treat their host of health problems because most insurances (still) don’t cover them.

I think it’s a bastardization of what is to some, an absolute necessity. On the one hand, I’m glad that the general public’s starting to get a clue, but on the other hand, it turns my stomach. It’s really revolting that so many items being produced are so far out of the price ranges of the people who need, and would appreciate them the most.

I still have my doubts about eco-fashion. I don’t believe the consumer culture really supports anything other than consumption, with waste being the inevitable result.