What story are you wearing?
Let's Talk Trash, Fashion, and the Power We Hold to ReFashion Our Environment
Our choices reflect how we care for ourselves and each other.
Every garment tells a story that includes the design rationale, materials, how/where it’s produced and sold, and how it’s worn.
What story are we wearing?
Fast Fashion companies:
Manufacture millions of garments per day, then burn unsold items, polluting the air;
Contaminate rivers with heavy-metals from dying leather & denim;
Sew obsolescence into garments with stitching designed to unravel quickly, and
Hide their environmental horror stories while manipulating consumers with glamorous images and messages that promote FOMO.
In Trashion & ReFashion (garments created from remnants of other garments), design and creation stories often feature an environmental health component.
Trash to FASHION’s stories offer healthy alternatives so you can discover:
1. How and where to source, use, and discard items, particularly clothing, to reflect our care for each other and ourselves;
2. How your creativity can help our community create environmental justice.
Let’s talk about the environmental impact of our textile purchasing and disposal choices.
On this blog and in the newsletter, you’ll find resources and information about:
upcycling,
clothing swaps,
purchasing pre-owned clothing
deadstock fabric,
clothing repair, and
other forms of creative waste diversion
You’ll also learn how to make clothing and decor in a free or low-cost, lighthearted, yet meaningful way that produces minimal or positive environmental impact.
Let’s Make Upcycled Clothes Together & Celebrate
My collaborators and I have some fun events planned. If you subscribe, you’ll be the first to know the details.
When You’ll Hear from Me
How frequently I post depends a lot on how well-funded this endeavor is. (It’s a lot of work to plan and run an event, especially one that’s inclusive, family-friendly, zero-waste, glamorous, and playful. Plus, every post requires research, planning, writing and design.) Your tax-deductible donation via Dwight Hall at Yale will help bring Trash to Fashion to life.
If your organization would like to Sponsor the first Trash to Fashion event and be featured in our promotional materials, contact me!
Trash to Fashion matters now more than ever
Our choices reflect how we care for ourselves and each other, and together, no matter who we are, how we sound or look, or what neighborhood we call home, we can co-create environmental justice!
I am super grateful for my collaborators & sponsors.
Collaborators: Dwight Hall at Yale, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven Solid Waste & Recycling Authority, Helpsy, Haven’s Harvest, Bregamos Community Theater.
Sponsors: Goodwill of Southern New England, Hull’s Art Supply & Framing, Peels & Wheels Composting.
