ECO-FASHION, AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FASHION TREND

A BEAUTIFUL ECO_FASHION SHOW

Is what we wear everyday causing harm to our environment?

Not exactly, it is the process of manufacturing these clothes or the way they are discarded when wearing out directly cause the harm to environment.

That is what I remembered most after the exciting and intereting workshop we organized last week as a regularly weekly activity of my "Talking Green Club".

"Eco-fashion, a trend or a must" is the main topic of our discussion that is aimed at making participants and members be more aware of the effect of what we wear on our environment and the recent trend that more and more international famous fashion designers are trying to produce garments made from natural fabrics and by responsible production techniques.

The workshop is sponsored by several celebrated textile and garment companies in Vietnam like Viet Tien or Thai Tuan.

Interestingly, most participants expressed that they hardly pay attention to the eco-fachion trend emerging for the past years and have little idea about what eco-fachion really means.

 In fact, eco-fachion is about making clothes tha take into account the environment, health of consumers and working condition of people in the fashion insustry. Eco-fashion are often made using organic materials, such as cotton grown without pesticide and silk made by worm fed on organic trees. Also, they are often made from recycled and reused textiles.

However, participants were rasing their confuse about how to identify these eco-clothes easily when going shopping. Many retailers selling their products are still claiming them to be eco-friendlywhile in reality only a small part such as cotton is organic and the other manufacaturing processes are ruthless to the environment.

Hence, sponsors like Viet Tien expressed their approval of raising ideas to the Government and other agencies of textile industry about the need to giving licence to stamp a label on any garments containing eco-credentials.

Thanks to this workshop, I become more aware of my own clothes purchase habit and behaviour, especially paying more attention to buy such clothes that can last long and made from natural fabrics instead of easily being worn out.