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https://fashionista.com/2017/04/sustainable-fashion-brands-problems https://fashionista.com/2016/08/greenwashing-fashion-marketing

I want to try to make one, myself. If it will work I could use it in my final major project.

We could save money on clothing by using materials that expands to last us longer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWxan35EWY4 This is incredible that from the coffee you can make clothing. 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/feb/14/air-pollution-masks-fashions-next-statement-kanye https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/25/air-pollution-single-biggest-environmental-health-risk-who Soon masks will become a new trend in the fashion industry.

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/oct/12/italian-fashion-house-gucci-to-go-fur-free-in-2018-says-ceo https://www.glamour.com/story/gucci-fur-free In March last year, another Italian fashion house, Armani, announced it was going fur-free, joining other fashion brands committed to not using fur including   Stella McCartney , Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss and Vivienne Westwood . 

http://www.ecouterre.com/hussein-chalayan-fetes-dissolving-coats-at-paris-fashion-week/ By creating disposable clothing we could help cut down a millions of tons of textiles that enter landfills every year.

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/09/old-clothes-fashion-waste-crisis-494824.html https://www.ecooutfitters.co.uk/blog/fast-fashion-the-destruction-of-developing-countries/

http://www.patagonia.com/recycled-polyester.html

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/oct/02/stella-mccartney-lays-waste-to-disposable-fashion-in-paris https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/oct/02/stella-mccartney-lays-waste-to-disposable-fashion-in-paris Stella McCartney proved that high fashion doesn't need to include animal products in her new Paris fashion week collection is cruelty-free and sustainable. http://observer.com/2017/06/stella-mccartney-ocean-pollution-parley-partnership/ Stella McCartney’s High Fashion Clothing Will Be Made From Recycled Ocean Pollution

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jun/13/hm-zara-marks-spencer-linked-polluting-viscose-factories-asia-fashion By researching in to clothing companies I found there is a lot I don't know about, where my clothes come from, or where my clothes were made?  Factories are using chemicals in the process of making clothes for H&M, Zara or Mark and Spencer. They don't inform their customers about the chemicals on their garment labels, because I think if it's affects your health you need to know what are you buying and the companies should make you aware.

I started by researching in to clothes recycling campaigns and I found that H&M "Close The Loop" organised a campaign that recycles old clothes to make new ones. I wasn't aware that companies such as H&M recycled clothes and used them to create a recycled clothes line Conscious Exclusive.   

With this collage I wanted to show both sides of fashion the beauty and ugly side. We are wearing our clothes for short amount of time . Fashion is too fast and we want to follow the new fashion trend by buying new clothes. What we are doing with our old unwanted clothes? We are either chunking them in the bin or giving them to charities.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-trashing-old-clothes-is-so-bad-for-the-environment_us_57f408f1e4b015995f2b93cb https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/are-clothes-causing-pollution/3806162.html Are Your Clothes Causing Pollution? Yes, because some textiles contains plastic