Vivienne Westwood talks with Deborah Orr of the Gentlewoman Magazine, and it is magnificent! To read about how Westwood talks of clothing with have you fall in love with fashion all over again, and perhaps for different reasons.
I would really love to hear more designers talk about planned (and avoided) obsolescence, globalization and environmental topics. Globalization is something of a new topic for me; I'm just starting to read up on it. And yet it's related to a slew of other topics. It's shocking to me how many people dislike certain aspects of globalization going wrong, without getting to heart of the matter, or being able to name it. But I suppose that will have to be for another blog post, on another day.
This article, though, doesn't merely talk about avoiding obsolescence and fast fashion. It seduces you with the permanence fashion can offer. "Investment" is a word used in this article, and perhaps it's doubly as correct: the "vestment" part referred to clothing, like a coat, at one point. Maybe that's why I feel warm and safe while I am reading it.
Perhaps it's just me, but I was reminded of something funny when she brought up chickens. In my last post, I recommended John Oliver's talk on fast fashion. He closes with the phrase "Eat this wagon of mystery chicken!" Upon watching it, my room mate and I looked at each other in bewilderment, and then repeated the line to one another, and burst out laughing.
In the 5 days since we watched that video, the phrase has become our code for "get up and do something that's difficult, but that will make things better for yourself in the future" (... and I hope you can see why it's easier to just borrow Oliver's phrase...)
With voices like Westwood's leading the way, we may be able to do just that.
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