Author:Whitney BauckUpdated:Oct 15, 2019Original:Oct 15, 2019In the '60s, designers like Pierre Cardin and André Courrèges created Space Age garb that defined what people thought "futuristic fashion" looked like for decades. But what if the truth is that the future of fashion actually looks a bit more like the past?
The entity uniting them all, Fibershed, was founded by Rebecca Burgess in 2010. Born from Burgess's personal project to make her own wardrobe entirely from materials that were grown and produced within a 150-mile radius, Fibershed has grown into a non-profit that mobilizes fiber-producing farms, mills and makers to create hyper-local textile communities that incorporate cutting-edge climate science into their operations.
"Since implementation started about two years ago, we're now drawing down carbon at a rate that's equivalent to the emissions created by 400 motor vehicles per year," Burgess says of Fibershed's network of local farming partners. "And if we keep implementing this next year, we'll be drawing down the equivalent of 1,550 vehicles per year."
Beyond the world of research and policy, Fibershed is doing something that might look humbler but is no less crucial to its mission: building a community that lives out an alternative paradigm for the way clothing can be made and consumed. In short, it created a microcosm where the future Fibershed envisions — one in which our clothing is made with care and creativity by people who treat each other and the earth well — could be made manifest.
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