Sustainable fashion: your guide to eco-aware shopping
Sustainable fashion: your guide to eco-aware shopping
In celebration of Earth Day (22 April 2021), we present the Wallpaper guide to sustainable fashion, a checklist on how to look and feel good on the inside and out
ReCollection 01, by The RealReal
‘Sustainable fashion’: a phrase common in today’s luxury parlance. But the popularity of a term doesn’t make it any easier to unpack. In fact, it makes it even more difficult to understand if a brand or retailer is operating from an environmentally-aware manufacturing perspective, or is greenwashing its production practices.
For today’s conscious consumer, the buzzwords around sustainability are becoming increasingly impenetrable, from circular economy to supply chains, traceability to carbon footprint, mycelium to micro plastics, regenerated to recycled. Not forgetting the host of conscious certifications used to to label garments (BCI, GOTS, Oekeo-Tex, Cradle t