Primarily, I care only that my clothing be: #1 - sustainably produced, (organic natural fibres & dyes) and #2 - Fair Trade. The rest of it matters, but only after the first two considerations have been satisfied. I do love fashion; and think that well designed clothes are true art. When I can find an organic, fairly traded piece of clothing that fits right, I'll pay more. Locally, it's not happening for me, but the odd time I get go to city to shop, I sometimes find things. The rest of the time, I try to find things at the 2nd hand shops, so as not to support the status quo... But I am lower-middle class, and so I wait and wonder when the wealthy will start showing some leadership. Because when when rich demand that clothing production be healthy for the workers, and for our environment, things will truly begin to change; Truly, it is the rich men & women who must make the demands, and the rest of the world will eventually follow. If one or two couture houses would publicly make the commitment to produce only Fair Trade Organic garments, and perhaps pair some sort of FTO status label to go with their designer label... maybe then people who can pay a fortune for clothes, would be shamed finally, into supporting the right thing.
afringedweller Wow♥ I love your comment and totally agree. Those are also my priorities and I usually buy 2nd hand clothing and rework it. What do you think about what Stella Mc Cartney has been doing with eco fashion? ^_^
What i am gathering is that future technologies will be super invasive, so say goodbye to privacy and secrets (medical and surveillance industries rejoice), which is a double edged sword but eventually when we re-evolve into telepathic beings all that privacy talk will be passe anyway. But what is not being taken into consideration is that with nano technology where we can regulate body temperatures to suit the environment with our blood stream, would people still want to wear clothes? If we look at "ancient" Hindu/Middle eastern civilizations, which i believe were far more advanced than us, but will spare you the semantics, you would notice that they adorned their bodies only with strategically places jewelery, which may or may not be for embellishments only. I believe that the jewelry, if it were that, was used to tap into the resonance of the body and enhance abilities and they had no need to adorn themselves with much else. But getting back to the subject at hand. Fashion like almost all aspects of modern life will too become a data gathering tool, which would be ok if it were not for the invasiveness and control of the individual for corporate profit and monetary gain. If not, then does it even matter?Coming technologies will make all previous institutes defunct and will give humans extrasensory abilities. We will seriously need to consider what purpose clothes will serve in the future and i doubt it will be for fashion anymore. The big question now is when humans become super-humans (Übermensch), will we all wear capes! or is that still a big NO, NO?? ;)
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Primarily, I care only that my clothing be: #1 - sustainably produced, (organic natural fibres & dyes) and #2 - Fair Trade. The rest of it matters, but only after the first two considerations have been satisfied. I do love fashion; and think that well designed clothes are true art. When I can find an organic, fairly traded piece of clothing that fits right, I'll pay more. Locally, it's not happening for me, but the odd time I get go to city to shop, I sometimes find things. The rest of the time, I try to find things at the 2nd hand shops, so as not to support the status quo...
But I am lower-middle class, and so I wait and wonder when the wealthy will start showing some leadership.
Because when when rich demand that clothing production be healthy for the workers, and for our environment, things will truly begin to change; Truly, it is the rich men & women who must make the demands, and the rest of the world will eventually follow. If one or two couture houses would publicly make the commitment to produce only Fair Trade Organic garments, and perhaps pair some sort of FTO status label to go with their designer label... maybe then people who can pay a fortune for clothes, would be shamed finally, into supporting the right thing.
afringedweller Wow♥ I love your comment and totally agree. Those are also my priorities and I usually buy 2nd hand clothing and rework it. What do you think about what Stella Mc Cartney has been doing with eco fashion? ^_^
What i am gathering is that future technologies will be super invasive, so say goodbye to privacy and secrets (medical and surveillance industries rejoice), which is a double edged sword but eventually when we re-evolve into telepathic beings all that privacy talk will be passe anyway. But what is not being taken into consideration is that with nano technology where we can regulate body temperatures to suit the environment with our blood stream, would people still want to wear clothes? If we look at "ancient" Hindu/Middle eastern civilizations, which i believe were far more advanced than us, but will spare you the semantics, you would notice that they adorned their bodies only with strategically places jewelery, which may or may not be for embellishments only. I believe that the jewelry, if it were that, was used to tap into the resonance of the body and enhance abilities and they had no need to adorn themselves with much else. But getting back to the subject at hand. Fashion like almost all aspects of modern life will too become a data gathering tool, which would be ok if it were not for the invasiveness and control of the individual for corporate profit and monetary gain. If not, then does it even matter?Coming technologies will make all previous institutes defunct and will give humans extrasensory abilities. We will seriously need to consider what purpose clothes will serve in the future and i doubt it will be for fashion anymore. The big question now is when humans become super-humans (Übermensch), will we all wear capes! or is that still a big NO, NO?? ;)
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