Hey everyone,
Girl Overload here.
Countless activists claiming to be apart of the “Extinction Rebellion Group” are currently targeting LFW in an almost brutal way.
Their definitive cause for this outburst?
Fast fashion, climate change, and mass marketing/production.
Leaping to dramatic conclusions, Extinction Rebellion also staged in ‘die-in’, throwing numerous buckets of fake blood outside the London venue, apparently symbolizing how fast fashion, mass marketing and production, and constant other principles are causing the world to go extinct and is therefore causing climate change and deforestation.
Extinction Rebellion is saying how the fashion industry needs to be “cancelled” because of what LFW are doing and are even staging more over the top protests throughout the entire fashion week.
Some of their other protests have included blocking the traffic from the busy London Streets for two entire days (called ‘swarming’), and another upcoming protest with is apparently titled “funeral procession for fashion.”
A prominent Extinction Rebellion activist Sara Arnold claims “what is happening in fashion so far is not in proportion to the crisis that we are in. We have actually had warm and productive conversations with the British Fashion Council.”
“But at the moment the industry thinks sustainability can help fashion survive. This is not about the survival of fashion, it’s about the survival of the planet.”
“This is not about the survival of fashion, it’s about the survival of the planet.”
Sara Arnold
Sustainability has been a major topic up for debate recently in the fashion industry, with even seasoned professionals such as Stella Mccartney and Anna Wintour speaking up about it.
Even the British Fashion Council claim that they hear the message “loud and clear.” and want to do something about it.
What your thoughts and opinions?
Do you fully agree with this message, or do you think that it’s just a tad bit dramatic?
I’m personally with the latter here.
Signing out,
Girl Overload.
Girl Overload 