The Healthy Fashion Campaign is a public awareness campaign for tackling the fashion environment and human health. This post talks about the potential for the industry to become a predominantly plant-based apparel industry. must be stopped.

Many of us in the fashion industry are in a difficult situation when it comes to moving from synthetic to plant-based.It is a challenge and I will continue to drive and create solutions.

Natural resources are plentiful if certain plants and earth elements are used in a sustainable and health-conscious manner.

In the fashion industry, I think fashion professionals have a responsibility to produce more plant-based apparel.Fashion consumers have a responsibility to buy plant-based apparel. However, I don’t blame brands or fashion companies for using synthetic materials. It is an economic demand and some products, because of their history, rely on this material for so many things that in certain cases they don’t even have other options. It’s a brewing theme. Because like it or not, we are mostly confined to this synthetic material on a global scale.

Potentially, our current plant-based products can yield a significant number of resources, depending on what they are and how they are produced. We have relied heavily on synthetics, but the demand for synthetics has not even given us the opportunity to find other plant-based alternatives. The eco-fashion “movement” is not a greenwashed term if plants are backed up by technology in a healthy way. It is not comparable.

Sustainability is very trendy right now and everyone is on board. Whether fashion professionals or fashion consumers, we all have a responsibility to create the fashion industry. Like the new codeword “vegan,” vegan is a bunch of cheap chemical fibers that don’t belong in our bodies. This keeps the industry imbalanced and problematic.

Photo credit: Ron Luck

plant-based fabric

Natural herbal dyes are lowest on the totem pole for the fashion industry supply chain, potentially leading to healthier apparel. I continue to study the process and selection. But for now, new plant-based technologies need to be developed that can outpace current synthetic fibers and dyes.Until the rise of mass fashion in the 1930s, his four major textiles: cotton, wool, flax and silk. one fiber was used.

As time goes on, you can’t go back to 4 fibers. In ancient South America, 550 different plants were used in textiles in ancient history. A wide variety of plants should be used for textiles. We have abandoned the use of plant fibers to the extent that we actually rely on synthetic fibers and do not know the other way around.

One of the fabrics that can be used for apparel textiles is nettle. We look forward to seeing nettle become a widely adopted fabric in the fashion industry. I will definitely add nettle fiber in a future article. I think it would be great for active wear if it was a jersey knit fabric. I’m sure it’s a lack of investment that this plant won’t be produced anymore, and it’s a wild invasive weed that can be cultivated, so it’s perfect.

I’ve made an herbal tea with nettle leaves in the past, and wearing it, I can’t help but wonder if the stems of the plant have similar medicinal properties and are breathable. It is usually made into a coarse fabric, but it is often blended with other fibers for fashion fabrics. I think it’s fiber. Nettle yarn is more widely used than nettle fabric.

Producing plant-based products may be a more labor-intensive process, but we cheap ourselves out of that process. Synthetic fashion = fast fashion and unethical on many levels. It is the root of modern fashion.

animal fabric

I maintain my own ethos and theories about what works on a global scale and keep them consistent and aligned with my work and research. Regarding wool, wool has always been part of the fashion industry and many cultures such as Scotland and Ireland depend on it. I think wool should always remain a minor commodity because we don’t have to rely on another animal’s fur to keep us warm.

Animal materials are generally not the best because they are not hypoallergenic, and you don’t need to “take the coat off someone else’s back”. but that’s fine. I personally can’t wear fur because it irritates my skin.

We feel that organic animal fibers are always in demand by consumers. However, if we compare animal skins to furs, it is a continuum, albeit not cruelly. If you want to go holistic to achieve animal-free harmony, you must focus on 100% biodegradable plant fashion. It’s okay to advertise healthy animal fiber.

synthetic polyester

The choice to use recycled polyester to stop producing virgin materials is also problematic. It instigates more synthetic production. There is a demand for recycled polyester as many manufacturers choose to make new plastic bottles simply to turn them into fabric. If it saves greenhouse gas emissions, think of all the pollution synthetic chemical test tube fibers are causing to the planet. There is never a chemical fiber.

And from the early days of the Industrial Revolution, the invention of cheap fabrics by major chemical companies gave fast fashion the opportunity to arise. It’s really about the consumer because it’s the consumer who decides where to shop.

Photo credit: Ron Luck

Can you produce predominantly plant-based apparel?

Yes, scalable and economical. There are dye companies that literally use soil to dye fabrics. How much healthy soil is readily available? So we need to shift our perspective on resources and come up with new ways to dye fabrics and more. Think about the seaweed farms we can produce and the fibers and dyes made from seaweed. You should not rely on synthetics. It is possible to have a plant-based industry. It’s a matter of knowledge and experimentation.

Chemicals are safe, but only up to a point. Some chemicals and synthetics are highly toxic at certain levels. I think the utilization of plant technology is the future. For example, 3D printing will never go away. It offers designer fashion we never thought possible. But what needs to change are the materials used and the machines that can handle plant-based products.

You can’t blame the fashion industry

I’ve also been to New York and seen the unglamorous side of the fashion business. I met people and at one point literally felt like there was a bug between me and the fashion industry I was introduced to.Unethical labor is practiced here in America. Still, I remain sympathetic to the situation and understand that everyone is vulnerable and that mutual relationships are too complicated to blame or blame others.

Unethical business is practiced everywhere in the world. Look at America: disease and crime. It tells us that there is a problem at the root of sickness and evil. You see corruption everywhere you go. But while using the perpetrators to oppose them raises awareness, it also denounces, denounces, and actually threatens those who aren’t the bad guys. This makes things worse instead of creating a solution.

We are now on a spiritual journey of spiritual awakening and I am learning about serpent fashion and Christ fashion. I believe we can.

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