Blog2: Society-Sustainability
Reviewing the learning of the Better lives two-week course, the central idea is to analyze the learning of sustainability from different perspectives in each lecture, which makes me understand the importance of sustainability more. Why we need to change and why we need to understand, because it will have a great influence and help for our future career development, we should choose the fashion industry to express fashion and create fashion in a more correct way.
What impressed me most was katelyn toth-fejel’s lecture.The relationship between sustainability and society makes me realize the impact of social problems on the future life of the whole world. Different fields are advocating environmental protection, but there are few real changes. More and more people can understand the importance of sustainability and hope to do something to change it. But the easiest way we can do that is to stop wasting, but the only way that can really change the problem is through social change. Lecture Katelyn mentioned Sustainable solutions only succeed if they address the economic, environmental and societal the conditions.The three – legged who metaphor describes this situation, in that if one of The “legs” is removed, The who will fall over.
-Fast fashion is now the biggest source of environmental pollution in the fashion industry, and the promotion enables customers to get the cheapest clothes and get more choices at cheaper prices. This is why most people choose to buy fast fashion brands.
If we really want to change this kind of consumption, we need to change not only from the fashion industry but also from the social lifestyle and structure. Now the problem of environmental pollution is caused by the way we live, fundamentally some habits of life affect the development of this problem. You can start with educational changes so that a new generation of students can learn about a new way of life, so that you can really change the problem. As better lives is now doing, it’s not just about fashion students understanding that the problem should be accessible to everyone, it’s about more people understanding the source of the problem.
Now there are many new ways to obtain clothes, such as buying vintage and borrowing clothes from friends. The prices are also very cheap and there are many choices. As a fashion styling student, my job is to try different styles and lots of new clothes, so we often borrow clothes and rent clothes. As a student of this major, I can advocate through my works that people do not need to buy new clothes and accessories to be fashionable. Fashion trend is a circle, a lot of fashion will repeat we can through their own creation to change the shape.