The Future Of Fashion: A Circular Economy
The evolution of how we buy, sell, and make clothing
A huge topic facing the fashion industry right now is sustainability. The discussion surrounds the very unsustainable nature of creating fashion garments out of synthetic and plastic fibers, that are used a few times, and then often thrown into the trash.
2019’s Earth Overshoot Day was July 29. Meaning us humans consumed all of the natural resources the Earth generates annually in half of that time. We are using these resources twice as fast as the Earth can regenerate them.
The Sharing Economy has disrupted many industries, including transportation, office spaces, tourism, financial lending, freelancing, and now fashion.
Without the Earth producing more natural resources, the way to quench our human thirst for that feeling of unboxing “newness” will be a Circular Economy, in which nothing is unusable and everything feels new.
The Peer-To-Peer Selling Economy
Buyers and sellers can directly interface on marketplaces such as Craigslist, Mercari, Poshmark, Vinted, Depop, Ebay, and Facebook Marketplace.
Buyers upload their own product photos and descriptions for their new or used items. Sellers filter their searches…
