2 June 2022
Recycling bins for clothes supported by Australian Red Cross Shops in an apartment.
The sustainability and recycling issue in the fashion industry gradually becomes important during the over-production time now. People in Melbourne stand in the front line to pay attention and take action. Residents who live in an apartment around the Fitzroy can donate used clothes into these bins for others who need them. These bins were put in here around 3 years ago by the Australian Red Cross. There are no restrictions on the fabric, material, style, and design of the donated clothes, so people can donate any kind of clothes that they will.
2 June 2022
Repair is a special way for the fashion industry to recycle and be sustainable.
In order to achieve the recycling and sustainability issues in the fashion industry, the repair could be an excellent choice. Shoes and bags are an essential part of the fashion area because they are consumables. This store aims at repairing shoes and bags no matter with luxury or not. The location of this store is around Fitzroy. The unique skills for maintenance on shoes and bags with a leather surface made them look like the new ones. It alleviates the problem that people always purchase new shoes and bags so that the waste can be effectively stopped.
2 June 2022
The concept of environmental protection put into effect on Australia's domestic brand.
Australian domestic brand: Cotton leads the customers to purchase canvas tote bags at the checkout center for environmental protection and to help education globally, otherwise the customers will get a recyclable bag. There is no plastic bag provided in the store for customers because that is hard for recycling and environmental pollution. Cotton on is located in CBD in Melbourne, and there is a significant customer flow around here. People purchased clothes that were hard to carry on, so they wanted to buy an oversized tote. Money from these totes will be used to support students who have a hard family to get more education resources.
2 June 2022
The waste in the fashion industry is a severe issue cause people's aesthetics and tastes of designers always be changed. Outpouring new collections and series lunched at a quick speed. People are not willing to wear clothes with an old design and style when they have a new one. The vintage shops can effectively solve this problem. This store is the biggest vintage market in Fitzroy Melbourne which name is Lost and Found. It includes various old things not only clothes. Old clothes and things can be resold to prevent being burned in the dump and causing environmental pollution.
2 June 2022
Jewelry vintage in Lost and Found
Jewelry accounts for a big part of vintage and fashion, it has been focused on by sellers. This is a jewelry corner in the Lost and Found Market. Many of these were produced in 19s century. The integral style and material were influenced by the United Kingdom. Mader pearl and gems of all colors were arranged on metal bases. Jewelry is hard to out of fashion cause precious metal is value-preserving. This jewelry was collected here to be recycled and resold so that the waste and environmental pollution by precious metal is diminished.
2 June 2022
All vintage collections at here
This is a corner in the Lost and Found market as well. It includes hats, shoes, ties, clothes, books, cups, etc. Almost every aspect of the fashion industry includes in the market. Because the fashion industry is giant and almost covers all aspects of our life, anything we use will consider it fashion cultural background. Things out of time are collected here as a recycling role. A group of vintage enthusiasts emerged from this kind of vintage shop, and they help the things for old fashion to re-step into the public life. At the same time, the maintenance and recycling issue is achieved by them.
7 May 2022
Mugler run in the opposite direction with environmental protection
This one belongs to vintage clothes of Mugler. It is displayed in the National Gallery of Victoria for standing as a production for fashion ideas in its time. The clothes belong to high bespoke tailoring and adopt heavy industry design with rivet and unwashable fabric. Designers in that time only focus on the beauty insights of women's silhouettes rather than the sustainability and recycling idea. Leather and rubber are normally used in their design. However, designers of Mugler begin to consider the sustainability issue for their production in recent years
3 April 2022
Sustainable development in the design of Maison Margiela
This is an exhibition of Maison Margiela from March to April 2022 in Fitzroy Melbourne. The sustainable development and recycling issues are considered and embodied in the design of Maison Margiela. In order to solve production waste and pollution in the fashion industry, Margiela’s clothes materials are from the secondary market. Such as plastics, old clothes, adhesive tapes, and even hair were recycled by Margiela and used in their design.
They aim to deconstruction and use secondary material in design. The customers purchased their products means donating to the environmental protection in the fashion industry.
4 June 2022
Acne in Chadstone Shopping Center
The store is a collection of fashion buyers, which name is Acne located in Chadstone Shopping Center Melbourne. There are a number of brands that hold an idea about environmental protection in this store such as The North Face and Coperni. An employee of this store, Eilian said that the founder and designer of North face is an environmentalist and he aims to lead the fashion industry into a sustainable field. In addition, the designer of Coperni adopts the glass to make a fashion bag so that the use of leather is avoided. Nowadays, more and more fashion brands pay attention to sustainability and recycling issues.
14 May 2022
Clothes made by environmental protection craft
This store is located in Fitzroy Melbourne and aims to advocate for sustainable and environmental protection in the fashion industry. They hold a big discount of 50% each Friday for the clothes that are made by people with disabilities. Furthermore, the store claims that all color dyes they used are natural colors. The tie-dye process they used will not pollute the water as well. Veromca is an environmentalist, and she came to this store to helping to advocate for and sell these clothes. The store has opened several branches in Sydney, and Canberra to broadcast sustainable ideas.
