This tool tells you how much your fashion habits hurt the environment - KPRC Click2Houston |
- This tool tells you how much your fashion habits hurt the environment - KPRC Click2Houston
- thredUP's Fashion Footprint Calculator Helps You Find Ways To Reduce Fashion Waste - Bustle
- Amid Transport Chaos, Paris Men's Fashion Shows Get Underway - The New York Times
- Golden Globes ensembles show it's OK to delight in fashion - Oklahoman.com
- Blue-collar Carhartt brand shaking up fashion industry - Fox Business
| This tool tells you how much your fashion habits hurt the environment - KPRC Click2Houston Posted: 15 Jan 2020 01:43 PM PST :strip_exif(true):strip_icc(true):no_upscale(true):quality(65)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-gmg.s3.amazonaws.com/public/KO3YLCYCHVAMPH5VXTRG7CSUSE.jpg)  For all its glamour and beauty, the fashion industry has a dirty secret: it's responsible for 8-10% of all global carbon emissions, according to a report from the United Nations — more emissions than all international flights and maritime shipping combined. It also generates 20% of the world's wastewater. The average consumer today buys 60% more pieces of clothing than they did 15 years ago, and keeps each item for half as long, the report said. So is it possible to repair the fashion industry's impact on the planet? ThredUP, which describes itself as the world's largest fashion resale platform, wants fashion consumers to understand their role in fashion waste. It has created a tool called the Fashion Footprint Calculator to help shoppers understand the impact their fashion choices have on the environment. The tool asks 12 questions, starting with how many items you buy each year, whether you rent clothing, and how much you return. It also asks about your laundry and dry cleaning habits and whether you buy from sustainable brands. You don't have to be a ThredUP customer to use the tool. After answering the questions, your fashion footprint is graded on a scale of low to high. You find out how you compare to the average consumer, who contributes a whopping 1,620 pounds of carbon emissions per year through fashion choices alone. The tool was created in a year-long process with environmental research firm Green Story Inc., an independent environmental research firm. ThredUP, founded in 2009, is known for its polka-dotted polyethylene film bags that can be filled with unwanted clothing that consumers want to sell or donate. The bags are sent to one of four distribution centers — depending on which city the bag is coming from — in an effort to reduce shipping distance and carbon emissions. It and has raised more than $300 million in venture capital funding, and investors include Goldman Sachs, Upfront Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. ThredUP says it does not currently have plans for an initial public offering. But it certainly wants to make its mission known. "Our vision is a world in which we reuse more than we produce new, and we see it as our responsibility to help consumers understand the role they play in reducing fashion waste," said company spokesperson Sam Blumenthal. The company said it surveyed 1,000 women across the United States for a study on fashion waste awareness. Most consumers don't understand how their fashion choices can harm the environment, it said. ThredUP's study showed that nearly 50% of consumers don't believe their individual shopping habits contribute to climate change, and 68% of women say it is up to brands — not consumers — to solve the fashion waste issue. It's worth noting that renting clothes has become more popular over the last couple of years. Clothing rental company Rent the Runway hit a $1 billion valuation last year, officially making the company a unicorn. But it's too soon to tell gauge rental's potential to significantly help the environment, the ThredUP spokesperson said. "Rental at scale is relatively new and therefore there's just not that much data available yet. Of course, reusing items makes the most of the natural resources used to create them, which reduces carbon impact." Some consumers who don't use ThredUP have complained that the company sent unsolicited bags, which the company calls "Clean Out Kits," encouraging them to declutter their closets. When asked about this initiative, the company said it is part of a "small campaign" that accounts for about 5% of the bags that are sent out to consumers. ThredUP plans on expanding sustainability efforts beyond the calculator. And it's planning to talk with retailers about creating resale experiences for their customers and "educating consumers on the waste of throwaway fashion," Blumenthal said. Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed several quotes to the company's CEO. Copyright 2020 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.  | ||||||||||
| thredUP's Fashion Footprint Calculator Helps You Find Ways To Reduce Fashion Waste - Bustle Posted: 15 Jan 2020 03:00 AM PST 2020 is officially in full swing, which means your resolutions are likely still fresh in your mind. If one of them happened to be focused on helping combat climate change, thredUP's Fashion Footprint Calculator is here to help. The new tool from the online thrifting retailer breaks down how your habits could be contributing to your carbon footprint and outlines the steps you can take to reduce fashion waste and be more sustainable in 2020. According to thredUP, the calculator is a result of its Fashion Waste Awareness study which polled 1,000 women across the United States regarding their perspective on how much impact the fashion industry has on the environment. The study found 92% of women polled wanted to lower their carbon footprint (the total amount of greenhouse gases produced by an individual) in the fashion space. However, two in three women didn't know where to begin when it come to doing so. ThredUP Brand Director Erin Wallace spoke with Bustle regarding the findings and the new tool and explained that the results made education a key element of thredUP's mission in 2020. "We found that there was a lot of education that needed to take place to help consumers do better." she says. "Not just when it comes to buying, but also how you care for your clothing, dispose of your clothing, the world around your wardrobe. That's where the calculator came in."  To create the calculator, thredUP paired with independent environmental research firm Green Story Inc. The firm aggregated peer-reviewed research, analyzed data regarding clothing chain supply cycles, and conducted an independent lifecycle analysis to quantify the carbon footprint of customers everyday actions. For users, the new tool works like a quiz, asking questions about their everyday habits when it comes to clothing. From the frequency at which they buy used clothes to how they do laundry to clothing disposal, the calculator tallies care and shopping habits then give you a measure of your carbon footprint. Once done, thredUP transitions into providing users with an entire range of ways to decrease their own fashion waste.  Among these suggestions are actions like air drying your clothing instead of using a traditional dryer, sticking to mostly standard shipping for online purchases, and renting for special occasions. However, thredUP also recognizes the role of brands and companies in making fashion more sustainable. While one of the recommendations to reduce your carbon footprint is to shop more sustainable brands, Wallace tells Bustle that the retailer understands that this can be cost prohibitive for many people. thredUP is here to fill in those gaps.  "We feel really great about the role thredUP serves as a sustainable shopping alternative that's as affordable as fast fashion, but without the toll on the environment," Wallace tells Bustle. "Buying used instead extends the life of clothes, makes the most of natural resources used to produce them and diverts (often non-biodegradable) textiles from landfills. If everyone in the US bought just one used item instead of new, it would save nearly 6B pounds of carbon emissions — the equivalent of taking half a million cars off the road for one year." Now that thredUP's Fashion Footprint Calculator has been created and is helping shoppers be more sustainable in 2020, what's next for the brand? Wallace explains that the retailer wants to plug more brands directly into their business model and shift the conversation from simply buying garments to what to do at the end of their lives. She says, "When we first started, retailers weren't thinking about the end of life of garments, fashion waste, or circularity — a decade later, consumers are demanding these changes and retailers want to know how to get involved. We want to continue to push traditional brands and retailers to rethink strategies and help them deliver the variety, value and sustainability of resale experiences to their customers." Whether or not it was your 2020 goal to be more sustainable, ThredUP's Fashion Footprint Calculator will help you reduce fashion waste and learn more about your own carbon footprint. Plus, you can do a little thrift shopping while you're at it.  | ||||||||||
| Amid Transport Chaos, Paris Men's Fashion Shows Get Underway - The New York Times Posted: 15 Jan 2020 11:06 AM PST  PARIS — Acrid exhaust fumes and the beeping of car horns contrasted with perfumed interiors and the soft rustle of luxuriant fabrics, as Paris Fashion Week got underway in the public transport strike-hit French capital. The disruption — owing to a nationwide protest against pension reform — has already claimed its first catwalk victims, with at least one house cancelling its show due to problems delivering materials. Here are some highlights of Wednesday's menswear collections for fall-winter 2020-2021. VALENTINO In a bejeweled visor and diaphanous silk gown, the singer that warbled from the stage at the Valentino show presented an angelic vision. Accompanied by a soul-searing cellist and pianist, she sang of womanhood and female empowerment as enchanted VIP guests inside the Grand Palais venue held out their cameras. Albeit sublime, this choice of presentation had fashion insiders asking, after the show, how it fitted in with the rather run-of-the-mill menswear clothes they just saw? Designer Pierpaolo Piccioli on Wednesday produced a collection grounded firmly on earth — on an urban sidewalk, in fact. It was sporty and utilitarian with a relatively slim silhouette, mainly comprising statement coats with printed words or blown-up flowers. There seemed to be few new ideas this season. The Italian designer continued his obsession with the "VLTN" logo, which appeared all over a knee-length monochrome coat. Elsewhere, a tailored suit had one side of the collar turned up in what might be an attempt to freshen a well-worn design. If the collection fell flat, it's perhaps because Piccioli — a master of couture — succeeds best when he makes us dream, not when he grounds us on earth. TRANSPORT STRIKE CAUSES CHAOS Wednesday was the French capital's 42nd straight day of public transport strikes that have wreaked havoc on business and tourism. Now high fashion will bear the brunt — an industry that puts on multiple daily collections all over the City of Light during the four-times-a-year fashion week. It was all too much for at least one designer, Christophe Josse, who cancelled his Paris Fashion Week show because of the strikes. In a statement, Josse s aid he was unable to present his collection during next week's couture calendar because the strikes had disrupted fashion suppliers. American brand RR 331 also bowed out of the couture calendar, but it didn't link the decision with the French industrial action. The fashion federation in Paris has, meanwhile, doubled the number of buses transporting journalists to and from shows to guarantee coverage as models and editors crisscross the city. OFF-WHITE FUSES SPORTY AND SARTORIAL Au unexpected sartorial twist set the tone at the start of Virgil Abloh's menswear offering this season for Off-White. It signaled a nice direction for the US designer — who fused the suited vibe with the urban, basketball-infused aesthetic for which he is best known. A loose double-breasted jacket sported perforated holes. A gray shirt had billowing sporty toggles hanging down from inside. While an oversize basketball jersey was made with a thick and sumptuous knit, with a beautiful Asian feel in billowing sleeves. The increased star-power Abloh has accrued since becoming Louis Vuitton's menswear designer was on full show via the flash of cameras, powerful front row and heaving masses inside the Louvre basement venue. AMI'S CURTAIN CALL A dramatic red theater curtain — closed and mysteriously lit up — a roused the curiosity of fashion insiders invited to French designer Alexandre Mattiussi's fall-winter collection for AMI. The theatrical occasion intended to celebrate the Parisian it-label's ninth year anniversary, and what better a way to mark a milestone for a French fashion house than a grumpy-looking musician playing a bejeweled accordion? The unisex styles filed by to the live on-stage music, riffing on tuxedo styles in the display's first looks. Bowler hats, androgynous floppy menswear culottes and voluminous flared suit pants added a eccentric touch. Warm turtlenecks were this season's nod to winter. Then, the collection let its hair down by channeling 70s' disco. An eye-popping silver sequined gown with high retro collar was worn with style by a female model. She sported that era's bell-shaped hair style that has now returned to fashion, four decades later. ETUDES MERGES "TERMINATOR" WITH FUN Fashion-forward French house Etudes merged the austere with the fun to produce an accomplished and highly wearable collection. A menacing dark gunmetal 80s overcoat with minimalist cinched waist, big black boots and a model with a punk Mahican began the show. Then, a black T-shirt featuring an image of Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator even made an appearance. This hard aesthetic was poked fun at as the 44-piece collection progressed. Psychedelic prints on suits and oversize pockets followed dazzling neon lime scarves and a giant blue knitted sweater depicting a world map. Etudes has developed a reputation of being one of the most cutting-edge houses on the current Paris calendar.  | ||||||||||
| Golden Globes ensembles show it's OK to delight in fashion - Oklahoman.com Posted: 16 Jan 2020 12:01 AM PST  Not long ago, actors walking the red carpet tried to shame interviewers into asking them about more than their clothes — even though so many of those clothing choices were directly tied to lucrative endorsement deals and the red carpet is, in fact, just a star-studded catwalk. Then, in 2018, in the wake of the #MeToo movement, those same actors decided to use their clothes to send a message about gender equity — and so the question of the carpet became: Why are you wearing black? At the first Golden Globe Awards of the new decade, there seemed to be a reckoning with reality — a fashion detente. Stop running away from fashion. Stop trying to drain it of joy. It's OK to enjoy fashion. It always has been. There's so much distressing news all around. Citizens are multitasking every minute of the day, fretting about climate change, impeachment, Iran, Iraq, the upcoming presidential election, something. Do they really need to hear some actor living their best life go on a 15-second superficial tear about the state of the universe? Host Ricky Gervais didn't think so and advised the winners to thank their god and their agent and then get the heck offstage. Gervais was impolitic. So perhaps this lesson was most diplomatically and refreshingly conveyed by the slayer of all red carpets: Billy Porter. As he noted Monday night, "fashion can be activism." And with every style choice he's made recently, as he's done the award show rounds fueled by his role on "Pose," he's made himself unforgettable as a gender-blurring gay man who brims with creativity and personality — memorable to even those who have never seen his show. Porter captures the imagination because his style choices are as outré as they come, but they're done with precision and intent and pleasure. For the Globes, he arrived dressed in a white formal pantsuit designed by Alex Vinash, with a cathedral-length train brimming with feathers. The two had begun collaborating long before the nominees and presenters were announced because statement-making fashion takes time, and what is a career in Hollywood other than one built on hope and a dream?  | ||||||||||
| Blue-collar Carhartt brand shaking up fashion industry - Fox Business Posted: 15 Jan 2020 10:46 AM PST ThredUp CEO James Reinhart on how the resale platform is helping JCPenney and Macy's to boost their sales of used clothing and the state of the retail sector. The uniform of blue-collar America has gone from farm to fashion for all. Continue Reading Below Carhartt, the Detroit-based outerwear brand known for its jackets and rugged workwear, is heating up the fashion industry with bi-partisan approval from consumers around the country who continue to flock to its cotton canvas winter coats, beanies and signature overalls. And some items are fetching close to full retail value on the second-hand market.  Kaia Gerber wears a Carhartt jacket in New York City. (Jackson Lee/GC Images) Vintage jackets, typically priced between $100 and $150, are in high demand with online resale markets like Poshmark, eBay and Etsy, and other have been finding the vintage workwear in second-hand shops like Goodwill.
"The anti-glamour of it makes it cool. It's an unspoken way of relating to everyday people," New York City-based stylist Amanda Sanders told FOX Business referring to Carhartt. "It's becoming the 'it' thing. People who can't afford a super expensive trend can easily achieve the look." A brown men's Carhartt coat is selling for $105 on Poshmark's website. A brand new one on the Carhartt website costs between $99 and $109. And a vintage Carhartt denim blanket lined jean jacket is selling for $100 and advertised as "perfectly worn-in with real character" on eBay catering to the desired look of worn-in and distressed as opposed to new with tags. From trenches to red carpetsThe company, which was founded in 1889 by Hamilton Carhartt, is known for its durable duck canvas fabric, which was used in uniforms of the U.S. military in World War I and during World War II, was suited for workers in blue-collar trades and vocations such as construction workers, farmers, hunters and railway workers. In the 1980s, the jackets gained popularity among New York hip-hop musicians and in 1989, it brokered an international licensing deal with Swiss designers to create Carhartt Work In Progress, a more streamlined streetwear label aimed at consumers in Europe and Asia.  Kanye West wears a Carhartt jacket in L.A. (Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) Now, it's having a moment with celebrities like Kanye West, David Beckham and supermodel Kaia Gerber who've been photographed sporting Carhartt's jackets and hats, and its landed highbrow partnerships with brands like A.P.C. appealing to mainstream consumers, many of whom likely have no intention of getting them dirty.
And Carhartt's accessible price point, functionality and politically neutral fashion statement is what's given the 130-year-old company staying power. "You look at a brand like Nike taking a stand on all these issues, Carhartt has a hands-off approach. They really let their products speak for themselves and that's really part of their charm," Kirsten Fleming, a senior features writer at the New York Post, told FOX Business. Fleming recalled wearing her father's old Carhartt coat six years ago to weather the elements on a trip to Green Bay, Wisc. She continued to wear the faded green, blanket-lined coat when she returned home to New York City where admirers complimented the coat, with some even offering to buy it right off her back. She eventually gave it to her teenage nephew, who was familiar with the brand and thrilled to inherit the vintage coat. "It's a brand that just grew with America and helped it grow," Fleming said, of the brand's mainstream popularity. LEVI'S OR WRANGLERS: WHICH JEANS DO REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS PREFER? BipartisanOther made in America brands have gone a different marketing route, establishing a political divide among consumers. Greensboro, N.C., blue jean maker, Wrangler, is popular in the West and Midwest, while Democrats favor San Francisco-based Denim Company Levi's, appealing more to consumers living in urban areas, consumer research data cited by the Wall Street Journal show. Carhartt, meanwhile, has become synonymous as the working man's jacket, and politicians from Sarah Palin to Barack Obama have embraced it to resonate with voters across the country. Still, Carhartt has stayed politically neutral over the years, letting its clothing and the people wearing it speak for themselves.  Former President Barack Obama tries on a Carhartt jacket in Kotzebue, Alaska in 2015. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) "We've always stood for hard work. We recognized that nobody looks at voting records when they're on a job site," Tony Ambroza, the chief brand officer at Carhartt, said. "They're looking at the person. We'll stay focused and stay true to serving the needs of the workers because that's what we do." A decade ago, people found out about the brand by word of mouth, now Carhartt's products are sold in more than 1,000 retailers including sporting stores like Dick's Sporting Goods and Modell's in addition to Amazon. BestsellerAnd while Carhartt's outerwear has become nearly as ubiquitous as the "Amazon coat," the company's namesake acrylic A18 watch hat ($14.99) is the brand's No. 1 seller and was Amazon's most-purchased item during its Cyber Monday sale earning more than 8,000 five-star ratings. It's a nod to demand for streetwear, a market being dominated by brands like American skateboarding and clothing company Supreme, which is one of the top-selling company's on the resale market according to luxury consignment marketplace The RealReal.
Carhartt's overalls, meanwhile, were among one of Amazon's best-sellers of 2019, showing the fashion trend of craftsman chic is on the rise. "People are looking for a connection to humanity. Our product has a real feeling to it," Ambroza said. "It's something you can break in overtime and make your own. It becomes more and more personalized the longer someone wears it and owns it." CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS  |
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