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Boycott  fashion?

6/7/2019

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Say what? 

When I was younger and an unabashedly proud fashionista I would have thought that was nuts (that's me posing for a picture my mom took before shuffling me off to the Everglades to spend my last summer with my dad, the "Great White Park Ranger of the Everglades." I was 17 at that time and had just graduated from high school).  But I'm older now and no longer as fashion conscious as I once way-- although a pair of over-the-top Docs still get my attention. 
Today, however, while wiling my way through another boring day of Sanctuary at the Miccosukee Embassy, I happened to catch this Extinction Rebellion Tweet about Royal College of Art Fashion student Laura Karup Frandsen who has chosen not to show her final collection for review for her MA by staging a "die-in" in protest at the "waste and suffering caused by the global fashion industry." Citing waste, water use, deforestation, chemical pollution affecting biodiversity, human and animal rights abuses, and carbon emissions, Ms. Frandsen says, "Thoughtlessly using and discarding resources, in a time of climate emergency and ecological breakdown, shows how far we are from understanding the extent and urgency of the crisis that threatens our existence." 

Fashion MA student Laura Karup Frandsen at UK's @RCA will not show final collection at this year's Graduate Show in protest at waste and suffering caused by the global fashion industry. Instead she is hosting a ‘die-in’ to urge people to #BoycottFashion pic.twitter.com/QwzUZk04z5

— Extinction Rebellion □⌛️□ (@ExtinctionR) June 7, 2019
Yikes! Life use to be so simple until Greta made the scene! 

Just kidding. I love her and want my daughter Haalie to grow up and be just like her. 

That said, I do like Frandsen's use of words to frame her protest as she goes on to say: 
"Collecting waste, instead of making a collection,
is my personal protest against a broken system.
​We need to decide: is fashion to die for?" ​

--Laura Karup Frandsen
Borrowing from Greta the Great's lifestyle, Extinction Rebellion has formed a #BoycottFashion team comprised of fashion industry experts who will not buy any new clothing and will support others with ideas for engaging with clothing in different ways, to "inspire people to turn their back on destructive mainstream fashion and to tread a new, environmentally friendly path. For those faced with having to buy necessities new, Extinction Rebellion will be on hand with helpful advice." 
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​Re "helpful advice," since joining up with the New Seminole and living apart from the Outside deep in the Everglades, I've learned to satisfy my lust for "needful things" by... learning how to sew and "upcycling" whatever I can find. By using natural materials and tapping Seminole/Miccosukee traditions, I've discovered a new sense of creativity by melding everything together. The finished product is a mashup of cultures-- like this necklace I made-- like me.  

Extinction Rebellion     Greta Thunberg
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