Better Lives Blog 4 Peer Review

For this peer review, I chose the Blog Post 3 of Beatrice Bredikyte.

She was a part of the project Navigating through clothing and from what I read in her blog posts, has been very interested in sustainability and nature in this Better Lives project. Her finished work was costume for dance created with rubbish that she disposed everyday. The mail goal there was to recycle and see that we can create new things from things that are considered as trash. This is I think a key aspect of sustainability, keeping in mind that you don’t need brand new things, that vintage, second hand, up cycling and recycling are always options and that nothing is meant to be thrown away without thinking about the second life that it could have. Even if her plans to finish her project were disrupted by the current situation, she managed to complete her task and filmed a video of herself in the forest as a witch wearing her dance costume made of old bed clothes, plastic, papers, old mesh, mushrooms and lichens, all of this being extremely sustainable.

However, hovering over her posts, as I said before, this was the main topic she spoke about and diversity and social responsibility were a bit left out, when she could have easily linked them all. All this sustainability work that she does and questions is part of her social responsibility and is showing that she cares about the world and thinks about how she could use the global issues that we all face to create a more positive future for fashion (as she says in her blog post 2). She really focused on the sustainability part of the Better Lives Unit and did amazingly but  I wish she could have talked about diversity and social responsibility because she seems very passionate about things and her point of view could have been really great to share with others!