Annotations - sustainability taste

  1. Luxiders Magazine. “Sustainable Fashion Story | #STAYHOME | Luxiders Magazine.” Online magazine. Sustainable Fashion - Eco Design - Healthy Lifestyle - Luxiders Magazine (blog), April 3, 2020. https://luxiders.com/sustainable-fashion-story-stayhome/.

    From the page footer: Luxiders is the New Intelligent Luxury Magazine, based on eco & ethical stories about fashion, design and lifestyle. This online magazine fuses the best high-end, progressive and luxury brands as well as independent designers.

    (luxury as "progressive") #sustainability-taste ("intelligent luxury" connected to "eco & ethical"). The article includes a series of images of sustainable products: "organic fair-trade cotton", "organic cotton from Portuguese dead stock found in Barcelona", "100% cashmere by ethical luxury brand EDELZIEGE", "bedlace, produced ethicaly in Italy", a dress "embroidered by hand with care", "organic cotton, GOTS certified", etc.

  2. Broeke, Teo van den. “These Loro Piana Sweaters Are the Best Sustainable Option for Spring.” Online magazine. British GQ, March 5, 2020. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/loro-piana-sweaters.

    Take, for instance Loro Piana – the family founded, LVMH-owned cashmere brand that has made its name selling £1,500 sweaters to the world’s most tasteful plutocrats. Not only is the label’s output incredibly small, due to the rarefied nature of its fondle-friendly sweaters, shirt jackets and knitted polos, but the way in which the cashmere fibres are sourced from Mongolia’s hulking, be-horned capra hircus goats is as carbon neutral as it’s possible to get. Very little machinery is used in the process, the land required is minimal and the number of said goats that even exist minute.

  3. Broeke, Teo van den. “These Loro Piana Sweaters Are the Best Sustainable Option for Spring.” Online magazine. British GQ, March 5, 2020. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/loro-piana-sweaters.

    It’s a widely held myth that the luxury industry is one of the greatest contributors to the world’s environmental crisis. Fashion, taken as a whole, is problematic, sure, but at the highest echelons of ultra-elevated luxury, sustainability has been an integral part of the vernacular for decades.

    Counter-argument to the #ecological-degradation frame