Years ago, vegan or faux leather clothing and accessories were stigmatized as lesser quality products. The cheap and often times tacky looking material was a poor alternative to the real thing, and even ethical vegans found it difficult to give up their leather shoes and accessories for lack of quality, cruelty-free options. Fortunately, the past few years has seen a boom in leather alternative textiles, and companies are really showing off their creativity in terms of materials. The current trend is to not only provide an ethical product, but a sustainable one. So what’s the latest? Pineapple. Yes, we’re talking wearable fruit leather that looks, feels, and endures like its animal-based counterpart. Its called Piñatex™, and it is the latest en vogue material in the sustainable fashion world.

Piñatex™ is created with the long stranded fibers of pineapple leaves. Dr. Carmen Hijosa invented this creative material following her years of work in the leather industry. She took a trip to the Philippines in search of more natural products, and discovered that the pineapple leaf fibers could be made into a non-woven textile (translation: fabric that does not need to be knitted or sewn together). Dr. Hijosa implemented a system where the fibers are extracted by the pineapple farm workers, processed into a non-woven textile, then finished in Spain, ready to supply to responsibly-minded retailers. This practice bolsters the local farming economy and promotes sustainability, as pineapple leaves are considered a byproduct of the pineapple harvest and typically discarded. Dr. Hijosa created her consciously-minded company, Ananas Anam, as a way to distribute Piñatex™ globally.

Hipsters for Sisters (HFS) Collective, a Los Angeles based bag company, is an early adopter of pineapple leather and one of the first American companies to incorporate Piñatex™ into their collections. Dedicated to providing the highest quality products using the most sustainable materials, co-founder Rachel Denniston said they have had their eye on Piñatex™ for the past two years. HFS proudly debuted their pineapple leather bag collection in early Fall 2017. The line includes two belt bags (a chic, modern version of the practical fanny pack), a crossbody tote, and a matching zippered wallet. Denniston raved, “The true beauty of this collection stems from the fact that we are combining the rugged, edgy look of Piñatex™with our soft, elegant, eco-suede. The result is a sophisticated, unique collection that goes with just about anything!”

The price for these items reflects the true cost of operating a sustainable business. Unfortunately, the fast fashion industry has popularized the concept of cheap, disposable faux leather products, which has led to some resistance and even sticker shock when a non-leather good costs the same as its leather counterpart. However, it is essential to disrupt this ideology and make an effort to understand what goes into the pricing of these products. A sweat-shop made handbag is not meant to last over the years, and it can be produced quite cheaply and sold at a socially acceptable price point, no eyebrows raised. However, the same handbag made with durable, sustainable material by a worker earning a living wage will cost significantly more. The Piñatex™products at HFS Collective will set you back from $215 for the pocket belt bag and up to $395 for the large crossbody tote. Its true, there is an expense to responsible business practices, but for Denniston, ethics are non-negotiable.

“Simply stated, sustainable and ethical production means being responsible in one’s manufacturing and sourcing of fabric. Not only is it important to have the lightest impact on the planet with your production and sourcing of material, but its equally important to provide the craftsmen and women that make your products with fair, living wages in safe and pleasant working conditions. We try to do it all.”

In addition to HFS Collective, a few other small businesses are beginning to incorporate Piñatex™into their lines. The material is becoming more prevalent through Etsy retailers, and there is hope for larger distribution with big name brands in the future. 

In essence, fashion is an investment. It is not about how many different outfits you have or never wearing the same thing twice; it is about collecting classic, quality pieces that truly shine and make you feel confident. Fashion is not meant to be disposal, it is meant to be treasured and valued. Thanks to the recent innovations in sustainable material, like Piñatex™, quality fashion can now be ethical and sustainable fashion. We’d rather wear fruit than flesh, any day. 

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When the fashion industry boomed after World War II, the “Made in” label became synonymous with the class and chic factor of any person wearing a certain designer or brand, but what do they really mean?

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the practice of labeling the country of origin on a manufactured product has been a marker of quality. By the 1990s logos were everything, especially since sportswear (think Nike, Adidas, Fila) hit the fashion market like a jet stream.

In this day and age, the “Made in” label also provides consumers with a indication of the working conditions and wage, safety and health standards of a certain brand and factory. Some countries have become synonymous with the sweat shops that have guilt shamed many large brand names for crimes against the wellbeing of humankind, although these brands have yet to fully implement reverse production methods.

However, through the recent exponential globalization and growth of the fashion industry, the implications of the “Made in” label have become a bit convoluted. Although the apparel factories in countries like India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Korea are often thought of as meccas for terrible working conditions and below poverty level wages, there are several brands working with artisan cooperatives and craftsmen in these countries to produce fairly made goods that improve the local infrastructure.

On the other hand, sweatshops are cropping up in countries like Italy, long known for their quality and impeccable use of materials, complicating the use of a “Made in Italy”, label. Several higher end brands are also producing many of their fashion items in places such as Hong Kong and China at a fraction of the cost of producing them in a European high-end fashion factory, but having them finished or packaged in France or Italy. According to the European Union, this confusingly provides ground for using a “Made in France” label. Transparency is completely invoked in this case, only to falsely protect the reputations of a brand.

So who can you trust? The powerful labeling systems such as Fair-Trade and Certified Organic are somewhat reliable, but the best way is to really research a brand for its transparency and production methods. A full understanding of the integrity of a fashion brand comes from the passion behind its methods of creation, and that will shine through everything the brand offers.

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As fast fashion pervades our culture, eco fashion alternatives are rising to meet the challenges. Don’t think so? Then just take a peek at the trailer for “The Next Black” the film about fashion that will rock your world. Try it on for size below.

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Could embracing a spiritual approach to style motivate consumers to choose more sustainable fashion?

The fashion industry is fascinating. On one hand you have businesses that create obsolescence and insecurity, and on the other, products that offer tremendous potential as a creative process to make people feel more secure by expressing who they are, or who they’d like to be. And from Oprah to Deepak, yoga classes and meditation seminars, this country clearly has a rapidly growing taste for all things spiritual.

Truth, fairness, interconnectedness and non-violence are values found in all major spiritual paths, and, if you think about it, they’re also embroidered in the sustainable fashion movement. As a writer and environmentalist fascinated with what motivates humans and keenly curious about how to inspire more environmentally-friendly consumer behaviors, I wonder if the trend for turning within could make greater inroads with how we choose clothing, jewelry and accessories than green activism ever managed.

When I came across Buddha Style: A discussion about the Buddha’s radical teachings on fashion and forgiveness, a recently released book about approaching fashion from a Buddhist perspective, I was intrigued.

With its punk-rock illustrations by award-winning sculptor and installation artist Jesse Bercowetz, the book is an engaging and easy-to-follow perspective on both Buddhism and the fashion industry. One purchase (just one more) that might bring some peace for those of us who struggle with our fashion appetites. Recording a discussion between Otto von Busch, a fashion scholar at Parsons the New School for Design in New York, and Josh Korda, a Buddhist teacher at New York Dharma Punx, the small tome speaks to how we can reconcile our relationship to consumerism and begin to live more skillfully with fashion:

We are aversive to pain. We are restless. We are craving for pleasure. And we all want more. It is easy today to look to fashion for salvation. We feel fashion can give us what we need. We can be beautiful. We can be seen. We can be popular. We can become our better self. And it is so accessible. It is everywhere.

Can there be any liberation?

Image: seyed mostafa zamani

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The Sustainable Apparel Coalition is bringing together apparel companies worldwide in order to form a responsible fashion industry for the future. 

Although sustainable, eco and ethical fashion have all become movements that most people are familiar with, does the majority of the world’s population have a green wardrobe? No. That’s where the Sustainable Apparel Coalition has stepped in to begin turning things around. Focused on creating  “an apparel and footwear industry that produces no unnecessary environmental harm and has a positive impact on the people and communities associated with its activities”, is the SAC mission states.  This non-profit organization is a collaboration with an impressive roster of worldwide apparel and footwear labels, making headway for a world where the clothes we wear give back to the Earth instead of destroying it.

Like it or not, brands like Nike, Adidas, JC Penney, H&M dominate a large percentage of closets, and aren’t going to disappear anytime soon. These large companies have immense power over the consumer market, and thus also have an immense impact on the apparel manufacturing process. They have the ability to change the current apparel industry into a sustainable one, but only if we as consumers ask them to. No matter how much industry power large companies may wield, consumer power will always trump it, because profit by consumption is the only incentive for production. The SAC is playing a part in fostering a transition to sustainability with their Higg Index, a tool for measuring the environmental and social performance of apparel products. This Index comprises questions that assign a sustainability score to each brand, accounting for factors such as harshness of chemicals used and waste created by production and transportation.

Since launching in 2012, the SAC has managed to bring apparel brands, retailers, suppliers and NGOs involved in the apparel and fashion industries to the Coalition. A list of more than 80 members, boasting names like Burberry, PPR Luxury Group (Stella McCartney, Gucci, Alexander McQueen, etc.) , VF Corporation (Timberland, North Face, Lee, Wrangler, etc.), H&M, Nike, REI, Patagonia, Gap, Target, Walmart and a number of fabric manufacturers are using the Higg Index to develop and tailor sustainable products that meet their individual business models, providing the SAC with feedback for the refinement of the tool.

The Higg Index allows companies to internally evaluate their materials, facilities, processes and end products based on varying environmental and product design choices. This Index is based on a life-cycle assessment from the sourcing of materials to manufacturing, packaging, transportation and final use of the garment. The tool is open-source, freely available on SAC’s website, allowing any type of apparel company to identify its rating for environmental responsibility and pinpoint specific areas of development. The tool also aims to improve the business value of companies by uncovering costly inefficiencies and heavy pollution-causing activities. For example, who knew that manufacturing plaid shirts results in half the fabric being wasted, just to get the correct pattern? Better design and pattern cutting techniques would be a realistic, cost efficient and environmentally friendly solution.

Currently the scores and feedback obtained through the Index are not to be disclosed to the public by any member or label using the tool, as the SAC is still in the process of validating measurements. Tim Gnatek of the SAC says, “We need to continue to develop the tool so that we are more transparent and responsible about the shared data. The scores will remain internal until they can be completely reliable, because we want the shared information to be meaningful.” Although some companies might see the results of the index as a marketing tool, the information imparted through them will have the ability to spur positive change. As Gnatek affirms, “the real point is for companies to be able to assess their impact and make decisions according to it. Right now companies can do that behind closed doors, excluding marketing strategies, in order to really identify areas of development and inform the direction of future progress.”

Inclusion of and collaboration with third parties will allow the SAC to develop credible measurements that are backed up by both industry insiders and outsiders. A new, online version of the tool is set to come out in the Fall of 2013, and will incorporate more measurements for social and labor impacts. Gnatek says public release of scores on the Higg Index is still a few years away, but could result in information shared on clothing tags, company websites or even apps. With global and widespread interest from apparel companies, the information provided by the Index will cause a significant change in the processes of the apparel industry. As transparency becomes a business strategy, brands will become much more active in connecting the dots within their supply chains, in turn offering more information to consumers that already have a desire to become more educated about responsible industry practices.

The efforts and mission of the SAC are definitely laudable, although a key point still looms in the background, casting a large shadow over all modern industries. The current business model is fundamentally flawed in its sole focus on profit over anything else. If resource protection, social well-being and mutually respectful, intelligent cultural development are not placed above profit, the apparel industry, as well as many other industries, will continue destructive production processes and spurring of obsolescent consumption behaviors. The sooner we demand industries that are built on information exchange and true respect for  everything with which we cohabit this Earth, the sooner we’ll spur these companies into genuinely progressive responses.

Image: Dov Charney

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If you’re new here, we’ve been on a road trip down the West Coast this summer with our sustainable clothing company, {r}evolution apparel. You can track our journey here!

Whew. What a journey.

Over eight weeks ago, we set out to learn more about sustainable fashion and what we could do to help push the movement forward.

We met professors, designers, farmers, CEO’s, and people on the streets. We filmed it all. And this is a tiny, small bit of what we learned from these amazing individuals.

This is just the beginning for {r}evolution apparel; as we learn, and share, and converse, we realize that our work is crucial. We are all connected. We all matter. Every decision we make – from which tank top we buy to how we recycle our clothes – makes a difference.

Now, we’re taking time to sort through our footage, process our experience, and ultimately, create a short documentary chronicling our summer’s journey. Until then, we’ve loved posting here at EcoSalon and hope to stay connected to this community. We’ll be saying “au revoir” with a short trailer by our filmmaker, Steve Celano – enjoy!

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An interview with Enamore founders Rachel Braund and Gauruv Malhan.

The sustainable fashion market is growing, making it easier for conscious consumers to access responsibly made clothes. But what about sustainable underwear? Although several brands have jumped on the bandwagon of bras and panties made from organic cotton (even well-known brands like H&M and Victoria’s Secret), there is a need for more innovative materials and versatile ranges in sustainable underwear. UK-based lingerie company enamore is definitely on this track with its affordable new line of basics, and a fantastic attitude towards experimentation. With the aim of “changing the way people perceive eco-underwear,” this brand is on its way to doing just that.

Starting out as a pin-up inspired eco-lingerie brand, enamore has evolved in a completely different direction. The brand now adheres to the aesthetic of luxury basics, establishing their new collection on the concept of “effortlessly eco.” Enamore’s aim is to provide the highest quality, everyday range of underwear at affordable prices, hoping to wean the lingerie industry and its customers off petro-chemical textiles and harmful production processes. The collection showcases bras, panties, lounge pants and tops that are simple and designed for fit and comfort. All the materials used for this new range are produced from certified fabrics, in certified factories, and can even be washed at 30 degrees celsius. EcoSalon caught up with the Director Gauruv Malhan and Creative Director Rachel Braund to learn more about the business of sustainable skivvies.

How was the enamore label set up?
Gauruv: The label was set up initially in 2004 when there was a lot of destruction in the fashion industry, especially with the production of garments: sweatshops using synthetic materials and people not looking for alternatives. The label was supported by several charities at the time, and in 2011 went through a management change. Myself, Nina and Rachel took over, and we rebranded the whole company to make it into the simple and sexy pieces you see at the moment.

Are you using any specific, new technologies or materials for the development of the garments?
Gauruv: We’ve got a lot of innovation going on behind the scenes. For example, replacing the nylon liner that you have in bras with a completely sustainable, upcycled or organic fabric. That’s never been done before. We are about a year away, or at least two seasons away from using it in our garments.

To what extent do you directly collaborate with the factories producing fibers and garments for enamore?
Gauruv: We don’t use agents in any of our sourcing. We talk directly with our manufacturers and fabric suppliers. Cutting out the middlemen ensures a quality garment as things don’t tend to get lost in translation.

So you know your factory managers? Are you completely aware of their labor standards?
Gauruv: Absolutely. Our factories and our manufacturers adhere to standards set by organizations like WRAP and SEI. Those organizations have different grading systems and all of the manufacturers we use meet the highest possible quality standard that these organizations set.

How transparent is enamore? Are you planning on providing information of where exactly all of your materials and production are coming from on the website?
Gauruv: If any customer ever wants to see any of the certificates, authentication or see how our factories comply to different standards, we are more than happy to send those certificates across.

But you are not using transparency as a marketing strategy?
Gauruv: No, we’re not, and that’s an important factor for the new direction of enamore. Even though we’re an ethical underwear company, we mainly want to market the design and fit of the garments as opposed to being eco. Being ethical is close to our hearts but we feel that it’s being pushed in everyone’s face far too much. So if someone just buys our garment and sees that it is of really good quality, that gets rid of all the stereotypes of buying it with the knowledge that it is an ethical garment.

You’ve mentioned the quality as a key point several times. Why are enamore garments specifically of such high quality?
Rachel: From the design side, every detail is thought about, and I will produce garments over and over again to get that right, like all the stitching details. The design has to be perfect when it goes to the producers.

Gauruv: To add to that point, we source quality manufacturers. We’re now paying three times the amount than enamore was with the original manufacturer, just to ensure the quality. At the moment, we’re barely breaking even with our wholesale stock, because we would rather pay more for the quality to ensure that our customer is going to receive well-made products.

What kinds of difficulties has enamore faced?
Gauruv: One of the difficulties is actually showing people the quality of the garments. A lot of other lingerie companies aren’t as consistent in quality, and so when stockists see our garments, they are very surprised with the quality.
There is also another issue we’ve had, which is the concept of how “eco” our garments are. About 95% of our garments are completely eco, but the problem is that not enough research is going on in eco underwear and eco lingerie. Rachel has been working very hard to incorporate new eco innovations into our garments, but we’re still receiving feedback and criticism for not being 100% eco, and I find that a little bit harsh.

What exactly is preventing you from making 100% eco garments?
Gauruv: The liner, for example, is often made from a synthetic material but there is no other eco material that has the same durability. There are some materials, like plant-based nylons and polyesters, but they have never been trialed before and Rachel is working very hard on looking at these other options. So making 100% eco garments is only about a year and a half away for us, and no one in lingerie has done that before.

What is enamore’s long-term aim?
Gauruv: Our long term aim is to offer an alternative in the market for ethical, eco and sustainable underwear. We also want to bring down our prices. At the moment we’re charging 25 pounds for a bra, which is very reasonable for an ethically produced garment, but we still feel that we should bring that down a little bit more as the line improves.

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Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the cut and sew garment production industry?

The majority of today’s fashion is produced using techniques that remain largely unchanged for the past 150 years. It is labor intensive; with many hands touching and working to produce the garments we wear everyday. The industry that manufactures our clothing is one of the least automated industries, and has by and large failed to ever fully embrace mass production techniques.

Mass manufacturing processes such as rotational molding revolutionized the production of furniture and other objects for industrial design, while robotics have transformed vehicle production. Automated processes and technologies are routinely used in almost all other industries, but human hands largely still make the bulk of what we wear.

The processes that come together to produce a fashion garment are broken into tiny actions, each operated by a different highly efficient and well-practiced individual. For example there will be one person who rivets your jeans, another who top stitches the pockets and yet another who only trims threads. One of the few aspects of garment production that has been automated is cutting. CNC blades or laser cutters rapidly cut multiple layers of cloth at the same time. However, this only occurs in large-scale production, as most small and medium scale manufacturers still cut by hand. By the time your garment reaches you it has passed through many hands, each person paid a fraction of the cost to produce the whole.

There are many contradictions apparent in this high labor industry.

The Good: it keeps a lot of people employed, in fact more people are employed by the textile and apparel industry than any other.

The Bad: they are generally paid a low wage and often work in poor working conditions in a repetitive (trimming threads for the rest of your life anyone?) and sometimes dangerous job. Transitioning into a more automated industry had profound impacts on the motor vehicle manufacturing industry, reducing the cost of cars and increasing production, while leaving thousands unemployed and the communities who relied on the industry decimated. If garment production were to follow the automated route the impacts are difficult to gauge, though unemployment would likely be one of them. The question of whether the payoffs are worth it is part of an ongoing debate, but what would an automated fashion production industry even look like? What might it mean for consumers and designers?

Many of the advances in industrial design technology focus around the transition from subtractive production processes, where you start with a sheet or block of material and remove what you don’t need to make the finished object, to additive processes, where you start with nothing and you only add what you need. Additive technologies are faster and less labor intensive when automated and produce substantially less waste to produce the same or better end result. It enables form and structures never before possible with reductive processes.

Julian Roberts, Subtraction Cutting

Some of the most interesting developments in regards to garment design and production are occurring at the threshold between industrial design, science and fashion. Revolutionary thinkers at these intersections have produced spray on fabric, 3D printed swimwear and couture, Liquid Molded garments, and DPOL. These emerging (and still developing) technologies add to more mainstream techniques such as whole garment knitting, digital printing, embroidery and laser cutting, to present us with a future for the fashion industry which is vastly different to the one we have now.

Conflating the textile production and garment production processes through technological advances such as 3D printing, as well as producing garment forms otherwise impossible, also significantly reduces waste and carbon emissions. The highly globalized nature of the fashion industry leads to the raw materials of textiles grown in one country, processed in another and cut and sewn in yet another, all while being sold all over the world.

Imagining in contrast, a future where we have a 3D printer on our desktop at home is not that far off, so picture this: You are about to go out on a Friday evening and realize you “have nothing to wear!” You pay $50 to download from the internet that latest Fall 2018 dress design you love, software modifies it to fit exactly and then sends it to your desktop 3D printer, 30 minutes later you’re out the door.

This will happen.

Image: Kheel Center, Cornell, The Denim Wiki

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A new e-commerce site redefining what sustainable fashion means.

Sustainable fashion isn’t just about rigorous sourcing and handmade craftsmanship. As much as we might admire a sweater by Edun or a skirt by Organic by John Patrick, most of us who appreciate responsibly made, high-quality clothing make do with scouring resale racks, and the occasional guilty purchase at Target.

But there is a middle ground, where sustainability and affordability collide, and it’s bigger than we think it is. Everlane, a company that was founded in November of 2011, might not market itself as earth-conscious, but their system of manufacturing so radically eliminates the bloat and waste endemic to the fashion industry that it can’t be overlooked.

Before you can understand how drastically Everlane has upended the traditional model of industrial clothing production, you have to understand how the original model works. A traditional clothing designer plans and produces a line around six months in advance, in lots of perhaps 20,000 units apiece. That’s 20,000 skirts, 20,000 shirts and 20,000 pants that have to be designed, sewn, stored and shipped to retailers all over the world. After this herculean feat takes place, the company crosses their fingers and hopes that it all sells – usually at an incredibly inflated price.

This model applies to all the items in a manufacturer’s line, from shoes, to jewelry, to accessories and starts over a year in advance, with occasionally colossal expenditures and no room for error if say, the demand for polka dots or the color chartreuse isn’t as high as originally anticipated. If all those items aren’t sold, it becomes overstock that is sold at a loss to the manufacturer as well as the retailer – or worse, destroyed.

Polyester is made from petroleum; cotton is extremely pesticide-dependent. Dying the fabric creates hundreds of gallons of wastewater and toxic runoff – all for clothes that may just find their way into a dumpster. Many people were horrified to discover that in a world where so many people are cold and unclothed, companies like Wal-Mart and H&M were shredding overstock but isn’t the overstock’s very existence a problem in itself?

That’s where Everlane’s minimalist solution comes in. The company doesn’t build and staff its own factories. They don’t even build or staff their own physical stores. Instead, they contract with already-existing factories that manufacture many other high-end brands and keep their marketplace entirely online. Their clothes are manufactured in runs of five hundred or less and sold exclusively to their subscriber base, which currently stands around 200,000.

Everlane’s line of cool, classic garments with a twist has included everything from bags, to sweatshirts, to accessories like iPhone cases, for both men and women. They keep everything priced under $100 while maintaining exceptionally high quality. If a micro-run of backpacks sells out incredibly fast, then they manufacture more. If not, then the company moves in another direction. “It’s about understanding the consumer, instead of predicting what they’ll like,” says Michael Preysman, Everlane’s co-founder.

The company also tries to unveil a new style every week. Some runs may sell in a month or two; others, like a run of backpacks, sell in less than a day. Less overstock means less storage, fewer associated transportation costs, and perhaps most importantly, fewer processed materials.

By eliminating a lot of the costs associated with starting a clothing line, they’re able to pass on those savings to their customers. A long-sleeved tee shirt that might sell for $75 only costs $20.

“We try to be conscious about everything we do, from office waste to minimal packaging. Avoiding excess is part of our design philosophy, and as an added bonus it’s also usually more cost efficient,” says Preysman.

Avoiding excess is such an obviously sustainable practice that few of us devote any thought to it. We compost our leftovers and wash our reusable bags, but then we shop H&M’s organic collection without thinking about the fact that it probably produces just as much waste – in terms of labor, time and processed materials – as their non-organic counterparts.

Sometimes, the most innovative solutions are hiding in plain sight. Sustainability doesn’t have to be expensive it can, as Preysman points out, simply be a good business plan.

“I think efficiency and sustainability go hand in hand,” Preysman says. “And high quality doesn’t have to be high priced.”

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