HAPPY FALL QUARTER LADIES AND GENTLEMAN!
Get ready for an exciting quarter with Slow Fashion Club! We have a lot planned and we want you to be a part of all of it ;)
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THE PLAN
Welcome back to another "SLOW" quarter here at SCAD. We are excited to announce our plans for this quarter! Filled with exciting events such as workshops and clothing swaps! What else could a person need? Here's the list of events we have this quarter:
First Meeting - 09/18/2019
8-9pm at Morris Hall
COME VISIT US!
For our first meeting, we will be talking about our plans for this quarter. This will be an open discussion, of course, we have things in mind but at the end of the day this is YOUR club... we want you to have a say in it! Make sure to swing by and make your voice heard.
On-Campus Climate Strike - 09/25/2019
Location TBA
The Climate Strike is happening NOW and we want YOU to be involved! There will be a topic for every day of the week including the Fashion/Water Day on Wednesday, September 25th We will be hosting the "Thirst for the Future Campaign". We will be looking at garment care and reducing our impact by washing smart (by washing less)
Mindful Mending Workshop - 10/02/2019
8-9pm at Morris Hall
Join us and learn how to fix anything from a broken button to a tear at the bottom of your overly used pants. We will be teaching small lessons to students interesting in learning how to mend their own clothes at home. The goal of this to keep the clothes we have and wear them for longer because they deserve a good life too ya know?
Clothing Swap - 10/04/2019
6-8pm at the Jen Library (Room 100)
SWAP TILL YOU DROP
Since swapping seems like Slow Fashion Club's #1 event every quarter we thought why do just one clothing swap when you can have two?! Remember to stop by and bring clothes you don't wear so much anymore for something fresh and new. ((but don't take everything good cause we want to make some cool things afterward ;))
Up-Cycle Workshop - 10/16/2019
8-9pm at Morris Hall
Get creative and make something new! For this event, we're gonna get messy and let the creativity flow. Make sure to stop by and create something one of a kind to either keep or sell!
Movie Night - 10/23/2019
8-9pm at Morris Hall
MOVIE NIGHT! Time to chillax and get educated, there will be popcorn so that's more than enough reason to come and join us.
Clothing Swap - 11/01/2019
6-8pm at Jen Library (Room 100)
Join us once again for our FINAL clothing swap of the quarter! Remember you get as much as you give... so give a lot
Kaitlin Feinberg
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Nothing wrong with taking it... SLOW
When people hear the term “slow fashion” a confused look slowly creeps upon their face. In a nutshell, Slow Fashion is the movement of designing, creating, and buying garments for quality and longevity. Although, Slow Fashion comes with many responsibilities. As a conscious consumer, your dollar is the most valuable thing you have to offer. Consider social, environmental, ecological, and political impact of the product you are considering and if it's worth it... BUY IT! Ideally we would love to live in a zero-waste world, but of course, no one is perfect. We can all take small steps like buying vintage, upcycling clothing, and attending/hosting local clothing swaps. We can all take small steps that can have a huge impact.
Paige Palazzi
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Au Philia
This past spring, my New Media Methods for Retail class was approached by director Ramón Goñi and the Los Angeles Fashion Festival to create a short fashion film to connect with the festival’s theme of sustainability. With this prompt, I set off to create a film that encapsulates my biggest fear: what if what I’m doing isn’t enough? This apocalyptic Ophelia does what we all try to do: no single-use plastic, only wears secondhand clothes, and even handwashes her clothes to conserve water and electricity. Is it enough? Shouldn’t everyone else be working as hard? This led us to our tag line: Demand the world – they should be working as hard as you. Corporations cannot keep getting by the way they are. It is not solely up to the consumer to enact environmental change. One person alone cannot undo the damage done by corporations – we must work together and demand change.
au philia was created by Abbey Wiggam, Celeste Miller, and Maddy Davis. It is an official selection for the LA Fashion Festival. As part of our mission with sustainability, all clothing shown in the film is secondhand.
https://lafashionfestival.com/lafff-studio-archive/au-philia
Abbey Wiggam
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Not as eco-friendly as it seems...
It often feels like every time I walk into a store, things look more and more green. Literally. From my peanut butter with the cute green sticker telling me it’s free from 101 specific chemicals all the way up to H&M’s new blouses made from rPET (recycled polyester) with those lovely emerald tags. The color green seems to be cropping up everywhere, and it certainly isn’t an accident.
As consumers become more and more conscious of the harmful environmental impacts of the products we use, wear and buy every day, marketing teams at major brands (and smaller ones too…) are eager to relieve some of our guilt. Often times, this means using words like “eco-friendly,” “natural,” and “sustainable” without providing any meaningful environmental benefits and yes, my friends, the color green.
The term “Greenwashing” has been around for quite some time (que Chevron’s 1980’s “People Do” ad campaign), but it perhaps has never been more relevant than in recent years. Nearly every brand seems to want to climb aboard the environmental bandwagon, but very few are actually willing to take a holistic approach beyond what is easy to understand for consumers.
Sustainability in fashion is extremely complex. Anytime any product is mass-produced it is nearly impossible not to have a negative environmental impact. Yet, brands like H&M or GAP or, truly any large, multinational retailer, would like you to think that it’s a simple matter of finding organic cotton or making some plastic bottles into polyester (spoiler: it’s isn’t.)
Greenwashing is incredibly dangerous because it has the power to lull consumers into false security and it’s running rampant. So, before you get too excited about a brands newest “sustainability initiative,” take a moment to understand what the brand is specifically doing to reduce their impact. The unfortunate truth is that our lifestyles cannot be sustained at our current rates of overconsumption, and painting it green won’t slow things down.
Eva Boyer
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Brands We Love
Reformation
we've said it once and we will say it again... WE LOVE REFORMATION! This brand is calculating it's carbon footprint by calculating the carbon dioxide emissions, water usage, and waste produced in what it calls the “Refscale” to help understand the impact of each garment. Check them out, we approve ;)
Kaitlin Feinberg
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Join Us For Our First Meeting!
When: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019
Where: Morris Hall
Time: 8-9pm
We meet biweekly so we'd love to see each and every one of you there every other Wednesday!