Initial Ideas for Project #1
The Question: What does the future hold? San Juan, Puerto Rico I want to focus on the environment and how the fashion industry is impacting it. Fashion is one of the top polluters in the world, due to excessive textile production, water usage, and CO2 emissions. Fast fashion and trends are producing high volumes of textile waste in our landfills. People constantly want new looks for cheap and throw away their clothes before it reaches the end of its lifecycle. Not only is fast fashion hurting our planet, but corporations are taking advantage of people in third world countries. They do not give their workers a living wage and their working conditions are unsafe. If we continue to hurt our environment then eventually the day will come where beautiful places like the picture above will no longer exist.