sustainable fashion

[ suh-stey-nuh-buhl fash-uhn ]

noun

1. a genre of clothing and other fashion products intended to reduce negative impacts on the environment through the use of ecologically responsible materials and manufacturing, the promotion of longer-lasting style trends, and the popularization of product reuse: circular fashion ( def ).

   Our best-selling items of sustainable fashion are the T-shirts made from recycled water bottles.

   They’re among the most credible producers of sustainable fashion because they’d rather you get good mileage from a small, versatile wardrobe than lure you into a new line of fashion every season.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sustainable fashion¹

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

L.A.-based Olderbrother is leading by example when it comes to sustainable fashion.

From Los Angeles Times

Rachel Kinnard, an educator and clothing designer based in L.A., said her fall 2023 class on sustainable fashion at Chapman University was fully enrolled and engaged.

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Mindy Luo, a 21-year-old senior at UCLA, is the president of RefineLA, a campus organization focused on sustainable fashion.

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But Kinnard is realistic about shopping habits, saying: “Sustainable fashion has never been more mainstream.”

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They met in 2016 at an industry event and eventually began an impassioned dialogue about sustainable fashion while working together to design and develop capsules for Nordstrom’s Private Label Collections.

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