Sustainable fashion is possible
May 4, 2016 by admin
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Sustainable fashion. What is it exactly? It’s fashion that doesn’t cause harm to animals, people or the environment.
According to Eco Fashion World, Sustainable fashion, or eco fashion, are designs that are not harmful to the environment, people or animals and made in a safe way.
Many designers are choosing to go in the direction of eco fashion. This could mean providing job opportunities that include safe working environments, products that are considered vegan and products that aren’t made from product that could be harmful to people or the environment.
Celebrities such as Nikki Reed, best known as Rosalie in the Twilight series, is an advocate and supporter of sustainable fashion. She founded Freedom of Animals, which prides itself on creating fashionable handbags that are considered to be luxury items.
Reed is not the only person looking to continue sustainable fashion. Here are 5 brands that are participating in creating more eco friendly fashion.
This U.S. based company makes clothing, while promoting awareness about where their products come from. Items for sale on their website are made from materials in the region they’re produced. This allows support of the local businesses internationally.
Recycled products transformed into men and women’s workout clothing. Their clothing is styled to fit the lifestyle of the wearer, while having little impact on the environment. Fibre Athletics focuses on environmental impact and who is making the items.
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Root Collective works with businesses in Guatemala that make fashionable shoes, while supporting the community they come from. They pride themselves on creating safe working conditions. The shoes are made with bright colors that signify hope. Most interestingly is that the company takes former gang members, who are hoping to escape the gangs, and placing them with a job making these shoes. This gives people more opportunity to escape the gang life, and be able to support themselves.
Giving women the motivation to empower themselves is what this lingerie company strives for. This company mostly employs single mothers and women who run their households. Naja provides flexible work conditions so that mothers can care for their children, while also provide for them. The company also works with Underwear for Hope, that provides job opportunities for women in Colombia.
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Handmade clothes from Nairobi and Kenya, that only use organic material for their products. This company employs women while giving fair wages. Scholarships are formed from the sales of the products that allow young children he able to attend high school.
There are plenty of options to become more sustainably fashionable. Many of these options provide resources to people who may have harsh working conditions otherwise. Products can also promote eco consciousness, and to be aware of waste and what is being used to produce products people wear.
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SuicideGirls founder calls Saskatoon law ‘absurd’ and ‘offensive’ after burlesque show cancelled
May 3, 2016 by admin
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The founder of SuicideGirls says a Saskatoon bylaw that stopped a performance this weekend is too vague and acts “like extortion.”
“If the government wants to tell the girls what they can and can’t do with their body they should be clear … not have these vague laws that intimidate the girls into subservience,” said Selena Mooney (known as Missy Suicide), founder of the poplar SuicideGirls website and travelling burlesque show.
The SuicideGirls Blackheart Burlesque show was abruptly cancelled on Sunday after organizers learned they were not allowed to put the show on without a licence from the city.
Since 2012, the city has required services or performers “appealing to or designed to appeal to erotic or sexual appetites or inclinations” to obtain a business licence. Aside from escort services, the bylaw also governs people modelling lingerie, performing a striptease or “similar dance” and people performing “a body rub.”
Andrew Hildebrandt, the city’s director of community services, said the show’s cancellation happened because the promoter didn’t get the paperwork in on time.
“It’s not a question about do we allow the activity or do we not allow the activity. It’s a question of whether it’s licensed,” he said.
The licences would have required the seven performers in Sunday’s show at O’Brian’s Event Centre to pay $250 each — a steep fee, according to the SuicideGirls founder.
Not only is the cost “absurd,” the law unfairly discriminates against these kinds of female-centric performances, Mooney said.
“It feel like it was the city trying to shake us down and intimidate us.”
She said equating burlesque style performances with escorts and prostitution is offensive.
“It’s kind of like Footloose. Let them dance,” she said.
Mooney said the group performs in places all over the world and very rarely has to cancel shows. Restrictions exist in places like the Southern United States, where the girls have to wear non-translucent bras and panties, for example.
This is the fourth time the show has come to Saskatoon and the first time organizers were informed of the bylaw. It’s also the first time the show has been cancelled.
Not only were they told too late, the law is too vague in its definition of what is and is not an “adult service,” Mooney said, adding it’s unfair that bands or other musical performances don’t have to abide by the same rules.
“Even if Prince or something had performed in Saskatoon? He performed body rubs,” she said.
Hildebrandt said the bylaw is there to ensure adult performances operate legally — that every performer who obtains a licence is over the age of 18, for example.
“Just like any other business license bylaw — we regulate the licences all kinds of business, these included,” he said.
Ticket holders were given a refund and free pizza because of the last minute cancellation. Mooney said it’s unclear whether the show will be back in the future if the bylaw stays the way it is.
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