‘Too Much Fashion, Too Much Clothes, Too Much Everything’

There’s been a lot of talk about sustainability over the past two weeks of collections, and about fashion’s role in the climate crisis. The Swedish student-activist Greta Thunberg has made waves and not just because of her sea journey to the United States. Most of the time the conversation has been focused on manufacturing and carbon emissions; the corrosive effects of a small army of people flying to and from four cities in four weeks to pass judgment on a host of skirts.

But the idea of creating clothes that last — that people want to buy and actually keep, and keep wearing; never throw out or recycle or resell — is as important a part of that subject as organic cotton and ending the use of hexavalent chromium in tanning. And Mr. Cucinelli isn’t the only designer thinking in that direction. Suddenly, timelessness is being touted as a core value, even in Milan, the fashion-month city most closely associated with the notion of setting off retail trends.

Not by everyone to be sure. Not by Alberta Ferretti, whose attempts to shake up an association with the delicate chiffon party dresses once synonymous with her name led her down an unfortunate hippie-dippie Woodstock rabbit hole complete with washed-silk butterfly caftans, tie-dyed denim, psychedelic suede patchwork and shorts suits.

Source: The New York Times

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