Official Blog of the Fashion Merchandising and Design Society at Virginia Tech
One of the biggest ways to combat environmental damage caused by the fashion industry is to utilize recycling to make new garments and fabrics. Dalapati et al. used the most readily available biopolymer, cellulose, to make recyclable hydrophobic, or water repellent, materials which will assist in oil spill clean-up. Cotton, being made up of almost [...]
Luxury trench coats are a timeless and integral part of a wardrobe. Modernization of “the trench coat” is beginning to include one of the largest forces propelling the fashion industry into a new era: sustainability. People who buy luxury clothing expect the highest quality possible. As consumers are becoming more aware of potential social and [...]
The fashion industry has been lowering its bar for sustainability for too long. Along with high CO2 emissions and chemical pollution, the manufacturing process for clothing produces over 92 million tons of waste per year. A lot of this textile waste accumulates from fast fashion, the phenomenon where consumers buy cheap products with quickly passing [...]
Sustainable fashion is a growing field focusing on ensuring the health of our planet while still creating a space for individuality and self-expression to thrive through clothing. Who better to contribute to this field than people coming from science backgrounds? Many companies small and large are trying to make the switch to greener fashion processes, [...]
The fashion industry contributes severely to environmental harm through synthetic dyeing processes. To put things into perspective, about 10-15% of dye used for fabrics contaminates wastewater.1 The wastewater has the potential to pollute runoff and negatively affect wildlife and human health. Luckily, there are many ways to dye fabrics completely naturally without the use of [...]
By Grace Dinges It is well known that the fashion and textiles industry is a main contributor to environmental harm, but what is being done to alleviate this? Taking a sustainable spin on smart textiles is an up and coming method to decrease some of the negative impacts being caused by the industry. Smart textiles [...]
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