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Aditi Mayer is a sustainable fashion blogger, journalist, and speaker whose work explores the intersections of style, sustainability, and social justice. Read More

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I’m often asked what an ideal future of fashion

I’m often asked what an ideal future of fashion looks like to me. To which I say: Decentralized. ⁣Rooted in regionality.
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If you follow my work, you’ll know that I argue that our dominant fashion model is colonial in nature. ⁣
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Power is Centralized. Among the world’s richest billionaires are fast fashion CEOs, while their workers, and the landscapes they produce in, continue to suffer.⁣
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Fabrics and fibers are homogenized. Approximately 60% percent of the fashion we see in stores today is made of polyester, a product of the fossil fuel industry. ⁣
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Fibers are grown in one country to be shipped across seas to be processed, shipped to another to be cut and sewed: all based on an artificial, man-made, subsidized construction that is the “cheaper” way of doing it, without paying head to emissions that suffocate our planet. (Reminder that the fashion industry emits more carbon than international flights and maritime shipping combined.)⁣
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That’s why one of the key examples of what an equitable and resilient systems can look like are decentralized & localized.
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Imagine within a 150 mile radius, you have local fibers growing, that are then dyed by native plants, and then constructed by local artisans, and then brought to you, the consumer. ⁣
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It’s a localized system we’ve seen grow in popularity for our food systems, but not so much fashion systems. ⁣
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The project of fast fashion exists to alienate consumers from what they consume and where it comes from, which is why decentralization and localization are incredibly important in making supply chains more intimately linked.

#sustainablefashion #ethicalfashion #decentralization

On personhood beyond consumption ✨ I found this

On personhood beyond consumption ✨

I found this clip from a conversation I had with @liviafirth & @ambervalleta a year ago on all things celebrity, influencing, and fashion— really apt for the rise of the ~#deinfluencing~ discourse we’ve seen recently! A lot of this rings true to what we’re seeing today— a need to reassess what we aspire to, shifting marketing & storytelling, and of course, larger systems as well.

Part 2 dropping later today on how decentralizing will allow us to address some of the major ills of the dominant fashion system! #sustainablefashion #deinfluencer #deinfluence #ecoage #emaimpact #scarcitymarketing

Happy first day of Spring from Elaichi and me— d

Happy first day of Spring from Elaichi and me— don’t forget to go touch some grass 🌾🐾

I'm proud to announce that I'll be joining forces

I'm proud to announce that I'll be joining forces with @Remakeourworld as a founding fellowship member, along with 24 other creatives within the fashion industry. 🫶🏽

Especially honored to be a part of this organization as
someone whose origin story in fashion began through the lens of labor justice. ✊🏽

Today, over 100 billion garments are produced annually for less than 8 billion people worldwide. This massive overproduction places fast fashion in critical opposition with the planet’s natural capacity to support life on earth.

While the rate that clothing is produced comes at a cost to the environment, it comes at a larger cost to the women who make them.

Here enters the story of 70 million garment workers. 80% are women of color and forced to work in unsafe factory conditions with limited access to fresh air or natural light. Worst of all, gender-based violence is common inside these workplaces.

Remake is on a mission to change this. Together, through collective action, we can disrupt the $2.5 trillion dollar clothing industry and connect the industry’s biggest problems with viable solutions. Be sure to follow the rest of the fellows ❤️‍🔥🪡🌍✨🧶

#RemakeFellow #WearYourValues
#sustainablefashion #ethicalfashion

Film memories from India: workshop visits with #su

Film memories from India: workshop visits with #sustainablefashion designers 🤍

One of my favorite elements of my work is championing emerging designers who embody sustainability– from their small batch productions, to intimate relationships with their supply chains.

As I wrote in @VogueIndia about my travels throughout the country last year: “An amalgamation of different identities, both sartorially and regionally, lives here… reminding us of the multiplicity of voices that dismantle the notion of India and Indian fashion as monoliths. Decentralizing fashion allows us to achieve regional context in a country as vast as India.”

Big love to all the place-based identities and crafts around the world. 🪡🧵🗺️🧶🌍

[Pictured here is Sujaya whose label @joskai.studio is inspired by her Assamese heritage. She works with artisans in Assam who work on regional fabrics like handwoven mulberry and eri silk, creating motifs reminiscent of India’s Northeast]. #artisanalfashion #artisans #southasianfashion

Film dump: @greencarpetfashionawards edition 🎞️

A night at the GCFAs: created to celebrate those at the intersection of fashion & sustainability. 🤎

Big love @liviafirth @ecoage @greencarpetfashionawards for honoring me as a Changemaker alongside such brilliant BIPOC women— from activists, storytellers, & land defenders. 🫶🏽

#GreenCarpetFashionAwards #GCFA #ecoage #sustainablefashion #climatejustice #sustainability

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