Friday, February 12, 2021

Climate Change: "President Biden, appoint a fashion czar!"

We didn't link to even one Paris Fashion Week story last month. Going virtual just wasn't the same.
Looking at past fashion posts:

And here I've been worried that the world may not be ready for a return of knee breeches

As noted in "The New Masculinity: Huh, I Suppose It's Time To Update My Wardrobe"
Times change and we must change with them.
So out with THIS: 
...August 18, 2014 started like any other day, with the question of how to present oneself to the world: knee breeches or sans-culottes?
Deciding, for the umteenth time the world may not be quite ready for the revival of the eighteenth century aesthetic:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Ralph_Earl_-_Elijah_Boardman_-_WGA7452.jpg
it's pantaloons and out the door, little knowing our fortunes were about to turn very jolly....
I needn't have been concerned.

Be the most stylish person on the Investment Policy Committee.

But that was the before-times. Might as well just blow it all up, there's no going back.

So now it's Fast Company's "Big Ideas For the First 100 Days:

The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of the world’s carbon emissions. It needs to be regulated like other big sectors. 

President Biden, while your administration is hard at work tackling emissions from the automobile and energy industries, there seem to be no plans to regulate fashion, which produces 10% of global carbon emissions. American fashion companies are also responsible for a panoply of human rights violations, from COVID-19 outbreaks in factories to relying on slave labor. You have an opportunity to take on this deeply problematic sector by creating a new White House position: It’s time to appoint a Fashion Czar.....MORE