Forward Thinking Fashion. That Greenhouse Thing Again.

“There is no strong difference between summer and winter anymore,” Milan Fashion Week founder Beppe Modenese told The New York Times. “The whole fashion system will have to change.”

Uh oh.

The fashion industry and the way we manufacture and clean our clothes is a contributing factor to global warming. As the processes of manufacturing our clothes is getting quicker and quicker, the energy costs of turning raw material into fibres into yarns into fabrics into clothes into transporting them all over the globe, are getting fairly out of control.

E.g. 60% of the greenhouse gases produced produces over the life of a simple T-Shirt comes from the typical 25 washings and dryings. A typical washer machine emits 160 lbs of carbon dioxide each year and a dryer emits 700 lbs.

This sort of pollution will damage the environment forever, irreversible damage. As a self-confessed 'clean-freak', this is not good.