We are pleased to announce you the angle of this first season of the Youth Climate LAB: “Making unsustainable fashion trends more sustainable”.
During this season, we will identify unsustainable fashion trends and assess how us, as young citizens, can positively influence towards more sustainable behaviours. Our goal is to a step-by-step guide for young and older generations suggesting how to avoid unsustainable behaviours towards more sustainable choices.
We will meet six times starting from May until November 2023. Do you want to learn more about the season flow? Check here below.
- First meeting: May 11th, 2023
- Second meeting: June 15th 2023
- Third meeting: July 6th 2023
- Fourth meeting: September 28th 2023
- Fifth meeting: October 2023 (date to be defined)
- Last meeting: Education for Climate Day 2023 on November 15th, 2023
But let’s start discussing!
- What are unsustainable fashion trends for you?
- What “sustainable behavior” means to you in the fashion industry?
- And can you think of any (un)sustainable fashion trends?
Comment here below! Feel free to share personal experiences and opinions and/or scientific data.
Are you a young citizen and are you interested in participating to this discussion? Comment the call for young community members to join this LAB!
Would you like to know who has already shown interest in this initiative? Scroll the Youth Climate LAB main page and check their profiles.
of interest for Valentin Ranke , Ingrid Garosi , Kyriaki Maria Papadopoulou , Eren Öğütcü , Jette Gunkel and Maja VRČON
Many of the changes needed to make clothing more sustainable have to be implemented by the manufacturers and big companies that control the fashion industry. But as consumers the changes we all make in our behaviour not only add up, but can drive change in the industry, too.
On the other hand, secondhand clothing is giving clothes "a second life" and it can slow down that fast-fashion cycle.
It's important that we demand to know more about the brands that we buy from, the products that we buy and the circumstances under which they are made. Only with access to this kind of information will we be able to choose more sustainable products.
As Maria already stated very well, the practices utilized by the fashion industry are governed by the logic of large companies and consumer preferences (on a macro level). Thus, if we talk about unsustainable behaviour in the fashion industry we should focus on the (short) product life cycle of clothing, exploitative practices especially in developing countries and a culture of opulence, which believes that wastefulness is a form of status symbol.
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