Many were fortunate to see a live discussion with the new head designer of Chloé, Gabriela Hearst at Forces of Fashion with Anna Wintour. Gabriela Hearst has her own brand and with her own brand she designs sustainably. In 2020 Gabriela was named the creative director of Chloé and just like with her own brand, she designs sustainably with Chloé. In one of her shows she used 30% of deadstock fabric and by 2022 she plans to stop using virgin materials.

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In a documentary called, 'The True Cost' they discussed the Rana Plaza as well. The workers described how inhumane the working conditions were and how badly women suffered especially women who had children because the children was forced to be in the factory as well. The workers were rarely allowed breaks and for long hours of the day they had to breath in harmful chemicals.

What would be so great that some high fashion brands should do is go back to their collections from the 80s, the 90s even just 5 years back and try to reinvent the clothing. With the word reinvent it means to take an old sweater and make it a vest or take a pair of jeans and make it into shorts. If the brands would go back and reinvent and turn something old into something new they would save a bunch of fabric.

It is crazy how everything in life connects with one another. Fashion really can relate to many things like art, the economy and even climate change. The fashion industry also has many ways to reduce their carbon footprint and some brands like Gucci, Chanel and Prada are making the rational decisions to help the earth.

If the fashion industry is making 2.4 trillion dollars a year there is enough money for the brands to start using sustainable fabric. If just one popular fast fashion brand would start to take accountability for all that they have done that would be a great start. Shein, PrettyLittleThing and Boohoo are all brands that need to reflect on how sustainable their company is and what to do to improve it.

The labor practices in the fashion industry are absolutely terrible and need to be fixed. In third world countries workers are barely paid four dollars and yet they still have to work long hours. There is the National Labor Relations Act which protects the rights of the workers but more needs to be done.

Stores like Zara and Forever 21 are notorious for taking what high fashion brands present at Fashion Week and making a cheaper version of it. Zara's clothing is not as inexpensive as Forever 21 but both stores have gotten in lawsuits over the similar styles that have appeared in their stores. It is annoy for the high fashion brand to produce clothing that they have worked on for months be taken and replicated in a matter of weeks and have it be sold for a much cheaper price.

It has been proven that the fashion industry is a big part of polluting the environment. Most of the time when designers and companies made clothing and people buy it most of the clothing ends in a landfill. In 2018 it was reported that 17 million tons of textile went to landfills.

It would be easier to buy sustainable clothing that lasts rather than buy fast-fashion brands like H&M and Zara. There are a bunch of affordable sustainable, eco-friendly clothing brands out there. It is much better to buy clothes that are good quality than cheap clothes that will mess up in the washing machine the first time you wash it.

Fashion trends will always come and go. Chokers necklaces were a big accessory in the 90s and everyone loved wearing them. Chokers are still worn to this day and will probably stay around for a while.