What Is Sustainable Fashion?

Last month we participated in a discussion on sustainable fashion as part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival.

It was a really interesting evening and others on the panel brought up some ideas about sustainability as it applies to the industry that we hadn’t considered before.

For those who couldn’t make it (or for those who could but want to hear it all again), you can download the audio file of the evening…

Industry & Autonomy: what is sustainable fashion?

Can the term ‘sustainable fashion’ really exist, or is it a paradox? How does the fashion industry, from celebrity designers to mass market retailers, tackle the problem of environmentally friendly fashion practices? Is it about local knowledge, and how does this work in the global economy? And what does ‘sustainability’ mean to you? In an industry notorious for its wastefulness, and in a world where the designer label is king, how do we shift the paradigm?

When:  Tues 23 Aug 2011, 8:30pm
Where: slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library of Queensland
Duration: 01:13:31 hours
Download audio:  mp3 [68 MB]
Windows media (audio): broadband