Week 3 - Hungry for Fashion

Alyssa Vang - ASA 141 -

Week 3 - Hungry for Fashion

    When I started becoming a fashionista in middle school, I never thought about the way clothes can affect people, whether it has to do with the world globally or with people who are making the clothes. I just bought whatever that was in the stores that made me look good and I feel like everybody else is that way. Until then when I arrived in college I had seen that so many people(as a designer) have such high sense of style that made my outfits look like nothing. When I took my first sustainability class, that was when I started to realize that the world does matter and it can affect my future, the way that I handle things when I got shopping I need to take matter of what happens to the clothes I wear when I no longer want them in my closet. While reading Joy's article about Fast Fashion and other topics, I never had heard of the term fast fashion until then and it made me question so much about my shopping habits.

      Going to college and seeing what people wear, I question myself to why people buy so many expensive brands (I know it's not fast fashion) but it's still clothes that are going to be thrown out after a few wears if they love shopping high fashion brands. That's when I saw that people are hungry for fashion because they want to be like everybody else. I'm still here questioning myself how they afford all these brand names. So I guess this is where Fast Fashion comes in. Most of the time Fast Fashion is something most of the community reaches for because its something they're able to afford and still look good. I plea guilty that I am one of these people. As a designer I also have the hunger for fashion and hope that others see me as a stylistic person. 

        Because of large masses of fast fashion clothes are being produced, it plays another part of sustainability because most of those clothes are cheaply made so they can rip, tear and ware really quick which makes people continuously buy them compared to expensive brands but even then expensive brands can be easily ware and tear. I feel like if we were not so hungry for fashion and shop at local donation centers where clothes get recycled, we can probably help the earth more then we think.