Fashion For Good

February 23, 2020 Danielle Brown

The Fashion Museum World Tour continues in the canal filled city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In a three story brick building in the middle of a busy shopping area on the Rokin, you will find Fashion For Good, a platform for sustainable fashion innovation.

It is an interactive experience, where upon entry you are given a wooden bracelet that you can use to collect information and create an action plan to help you become a more sustainable consumer. To help you learn good practices. Fashion For Good is about Good Materials, Good Economy, Good Energy, Good Water, and Good Lives. They not only educate the public, but also provide resources for anyone willing to make a much needed change in the fashion industry.

From the Fashion Library - Fashionopolis The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

February 18, 2020 Danielle Brown

Dana Thomas, author of Deluxe How Luxury Lost Its Luster and Gods and Kings The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano has recently penned a new exposé about over consumption and the business of apparel. Cleverly named Fashionopolis (a reference to the Industrial Revolution and a German silent film) it examines the history of fast fashion, the over production and over consumption of cheaply made garments. The facts are that we are consuming clothing at an alarming rate that is devastating the environment and exploiting communities around the world. The current fashion industry is dated and unsustainable. This is a cost we can not afford.

Fashionopolis The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes includes extensive interviews with Stella McCartney, probably the most well known eco friendly luxury designer in the world, and Iris Van Herpen, a Dutch designer pushing boundaries with technology. More topics covered include worker’s rights and the dark truths of abuse and exploitation in the textile industry that runs as far back as the invention of the loom.

Wedding Belle

October 20, 2019 Danielle Brown

I love all of my dresses, but sometimes there are ones I love just a little bit more. Ones that take up a bigger space in my heart. One of those dresses I wore on a Sunday, where surrounded by family and friends, I married the father of my child and the love of my life.

This happens to be the second dress I purchased. I started like most with a traditional search, visiting local bridal salons, trying different styles. Nothing really spoke to me. I began to search online, where it became more than difficult to wade through the fast fashion retailers masquerading as bridal boutiques. Choosing a gown without having tried it on or having felt the fabric was a risk. One that did not pay off.