Fashion is a necessity, but one doesn’t realize how much damage it cam cause the earth. Most of us don’t know that 17 to 20 percent of all industrial air pollution comes from the treatment of fabric. This makes the textile industry the third biggest consumer and contaminator of water on the planet. It is shocking news, but every bad news has a good. Designers such as Costello Tagliapietra and Lauren Bush, are going eco-friendly, designing their clothing to save the earth and help people.
Costello Tagliapietra’s Spring/Summer 2010 collection consisted of dresses in fabulous hues. The colors were inspired by the natural environment- Grecian goddesses, curve-complimenting ideal for a summer night. The best part of his collection, besides the beauty, is that half of the dresses incorporated AirDye taffeta. The process of AirDye consists of the color being dyed inside rather than on the fabric. Dyes are transferred from recycled paper onto fabric from used dyes and toners. The process can be done on chiffon, jersey, satin and any fabric with synthetic fibers. Each dress dyed saves 45 gallons of water, 95 megajoules of energy and 3 kilograms of greenhouse gases. Though the process may be difficult to understand, the numbers show more…
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