EMBRACING SUSTAINABLE FASHION, 2022

I've just just started reading a great book called "How to Break Up with Fast Fashion" by Lauren Bravo. It's a book intended to change your mindset that will make you fall back in love with your wardrobe and embrace a more sustainable ways of shopping. Lauren Bravo has intentionally given up fast fashion for one whole year, starting from January 1st #notnewyear .

Funny enough I picked up this brand new book for £1.00 in my favourite charity shop (or I should say my favourite chazza shop), after purchasing a gorgeous black coat for the winter. Yes, it's July, the hottest day of the year so far, and I'm planning well ahead, while other girls are busy browsing summer dresses and tops.

I also purchased a brand new luxury sheepskin jacket that was made in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, by a family run business for generations Richard Draper. If you've never heard of them, they are the Rolls Royce of Sheepskin coats & jackets.

I watched a documentary recently on YouTube where fast fashion is having a devastating effect on the environment. Africa has become a major dumping ground for tons and tons of textile waste everyday from the UK, and what isn't worth selling is dumped and makes it way to the sea, only to be washed up on shore as mighty tangles of textile rope that is also embedded deep within the sands.

Check out the link below, it's a real eye-opener.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3kuuBPVys&t=6s

For quite a while now, I've been more conscious of my wardrobe. I've been repairing, recycling, and upcycling, and giving my items a new lease of life, without sacrificing my style.

I bought a beautiful beaded necklace secondhand that was too small around even around my slender neck, so I added an extension chain from a broken necklace I had, and voila, it looks good as new and ready to wear with my LBD.

Since becoming more sustainable I'm carving out a unique individual style that cannot be imitated so easily.

My love of fashion runs through my soul, and as an artist I'm naturally creative and highly imaginative., so for me this is an excellent playground for creativity and fun.

It's about reinvention, exercising the very strings of thought in order to give birth to new ideas.

I'm going to use this blog occasionally to keep track of my progress and share pictures of my style.

Earth is not as strong as we may think, it is dying and it needs our help desperately. My advice would be to look for small ways to be more sustainable when it comes to fashion, and then build upon that gradually until you are more confident and ready to embrace the wholeness of sustainable fashion.

Wishing you the best of success on your new journey.