sustainability taste

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.

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.

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sustainability taste Taste for sustainability, as connected to luxury fashion, is a marker of cultural and economic capital.