Fashion designers can play an important role in saving the planet by green designing. Pollution prevention is a subset of Green Design. It is an attempt to make new products and processes more environmentally benign by making changes in the design phase. During the past, the effects of environment were ignored at the design stage for new products and processes and the hazardous wastes were dumped in most convenient fashion. In material production, manufacturing and distribution the waste was common.
New York has taken the step for contributing in environmental pollution control by organizing Green Fashion Week.
What are the objectives of green design?
To ensure a sustainable future for the society.
To direct all attention to environmental problems such as global warming.
Minimization of non-renewable resources.
Reduction of harmful emissions to the environment
Can green design be defined in absolute sense?
No, because it is very rare that we find the products which are greener in all dimensions i.e. use of resource and energy, recyclables and emissions. Still, there are reduced emissions, reduced waste and efficient use of resources in the manufacturing of green products, which help in the reduction of cost of protection of environment and pollution control. So we can say that green products though cannot be defined in absolute terms yet prove beneficial to the environment.
New York has organized fashion weeks in the past years but it is for the first time that it is organizing the fashion week in which green fashion shows and green fashion events are the most exiting, where green design dresses (dresses made in eco-friendly ways) will be presented.
So be tuned…
Via: Inhabitat
