GOSSYPIUM ORGANIC & FAIRTRADE COTTON

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Green is not Black

We will spare you from reading the fashion press this month as it has gone a bit too far especially when fashion journalists start talking about organic pigs we know there is something wrong.

How can fashion be ethical anyway ?
It is like trying to clean up the arms or oil industry !
Fashion at it worst: a bunch of anorexic, cocaine addicted models trying to make you buy what you really do not need.

This is not what we are about we do not want Gossypium to be part of it.

Times have changed, a few years ago when we started Gossypium we used to be seen as hippies that could not even open a bank account because our last address was in India and now because they want our votes and our money we are important in their eyes again.

Editors used to put the phone down on us because it was not on their agenda but now that Political leaders have got wind powered light bulbs it is good to be green and ethical and they are calling us.

Sorry but we want more, green is not the new black, there is too much rubbish still being said and done, the problems are not being solved.



Too many cotton farmers are still committing suicide.

Too much Oil has been pumped to make your nice fleeces George.

Too many people are dying to protect your oil resources in Iraq Tony.

The only green they know is the colour of the $$$$$$$ .

5 Comments:

refine_trade said...

Hey guys.. keep up the great work pushing fair trade.. i am sure you have no idea how much good you are doing for people all overthe world..

take care

Nigel @ Refine Trade

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4:46 PM

 
marie said...

Hi Abi,your work is really inspiring and I would like to launch a clothing line myself.I want to use organic cotton lycra jersey but then I read that it's not sustainable because lycra,even if it's 2 % makes the fabric very difficult to tear.It then becomes unrecyclable.
Is it true?Could you share your textile engineering knowledge about this? Thanks for you help.

3:13 PM

 
Anonymous said...

Hey guys, you'll be pleased to know that there are people who totally agree with what you say. I have just opened Italy's first eco-boutique and have decided not to sell some "ethical" clothing companies (namely Edun, loomstate) because they have names behind them who have the money to have as much asvertising as they like and they are not sticking to their original philosophy. I plan only to work with companies who have been battling to get noticed in this field for a long time. Everybody will soon see that organic fashion can no longer be sustainable once the "bigs" move in.

5:40 PM

 
Anonymous said...

great

8:55 PM

 

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