Here are some interesting quotes on and from the sustainable fashion industry ... except for Gilda's which is a fun quote from a marvelously talented and missed performer. We would love to hear your thoughts about sustainable fashion and if it can be sustained.
Enjoy.
Michael
LotusOrganics.com
“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.”
Gilda Radner
1946 - 1989
“I think about the suffering that may have come with them
and it makes we want to shy away.”
On why she doesn’t where diamonds
R&B singer Alicia Keys
Winner of nine Grammys including best new artist in 2001
“The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.”
Alicia Keys
“I want to prove to the industry that there’s a viable alternative financial model the world can benefit from. The effect of the clothing industry has more impact on climate change than if the entire world signed the Kyoto Agreement. “
“It’s got to be fashion and not what people perceive as ‘organic fashion’ – those hippie, oatmeal type of clothes – they have to be gorgeous clothes. Otherwise, no one would buy them.”
“The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?”
Katharine Hamnett
English Fashion Designer
Committed to ethically and environmentally sustainable
fashions
Recipient of British Designer Of The Year Award
“Will it be sustainable, durable behaviour that will last,
or is it just something trendy right now? For me, it’s still too early to answer that question.”
Speaking about consumer motivations and the trend of ethical
consumerism, especially in the fashion industry,
Thomas Busuttil
Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at PPR,
The retail and luxury goods company which owns Gucci group,
Yves Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney and the
Balenciaga brands
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