Today’s guest talk focused primarily on the prevalence of plastic in the clothing/fashion industry. The guest lecturer was Heather Kaye, one of the founder of Loop Swimwear. This lecture made me realize the extent of the use of plastic in our clothings, something that I was not aware of beforehand. I think the problem lies…
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Hamad Bin Fahad, On Plastic Fashion
Before attending Heather’s presentation I genuinely did not know plastic was used in the making of clothes that we are able to wear. Till now this idea is a little mind-blowing to me, and for it to make sense in my mind will take some more time and research in the way these fabrics are…
Ward- Microfibres in clothes
When I read more about plastic in clothing I went into my closet to find a lot of my clothes are made of polyester or nylon and now I realized that not only our waste but now our clothes are part of the problem that we have going on. I read that most new fabrics…
Plastic Fashion
Learning that many of our clothing items consist mostly of plastic was shocking. I already knew that some materials used for clothes contained plastic, but I did not imagine the extent of it. I thought that some amount of plastic could be added to clothes in order to aid the material or add certain qualities…
Life in plastic.. it’s “fantastic” !
The talk by Heather Kaye was a very honest and informative overview on the fast fashion industry and how unsustainable it is. Prior to her presentation and my research I was aware that we had plastic in our clothes but I did not think it was this extreme. I would assume a garment was made…
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Hilina Bayew: Guest Speaker – Heather Kaye
To start off I was extremely shocked to find out that the clothes we wear were in fact made out of various types of plastic. I simply assumed that polyester was just another type of fabric but it never crossed my mind that it could possibly mean a form of plastic. When this first came…
Fanisi – Fashion Fantastic
Heather Kaye’s presentation was an insightful and very honest discussion about the unsustainability of fashion. Before the session I only knew that nylon as a synthetic fiber that was made of plastic, so it was quite surprising to learn about polyester as a fabric material. I was actually a bit skeptical of this until Heather…
Pangna Sun – Clothes Tagged: Made from Plastic
I was not aware that many of our clothes are made of plastic. This is shocking because I wear them every single day but know nothing about them. What did I think they are made of? I started asking myself after I read the class materials. I always thought that clothes are made from plants like cotton…
Imaginary Beach Collection: Plastic in Quarantine
One of the most striking and alarming changes of the past year has been our readiness to sacrifice environmental conservation when immediate human health is at stake. As Covid took hold of the world, people who had previously avoided single-use plastics (including myself) unquestioningly adopted masks, plastic packaging, and more readily disposable mindsets. This…
Cleaning The Beach
Going to collect plastic on the beach was an interesting experience. We arrived at around 9:30, so the weather was not at it’s hottest yet, but it was not particularly cool either. The beach we went to was a relatively clean one, and yet we still managed to find a good amount of trash. The…