It was a great honour to have a lecture about new relationship with clothes from Sarah Klymkiw in Fashion Sustainability Forum in 2018. Sarah Klymkiw, who works at TRAID as an education programmes manager, devoting into education campaigns to raise awareness of sustainability in the community, social and environmental in the fashion industry.
Sarah wants to make positive contribution of sustainable fashion, therefore, she has built strong awareness and shared people about the relationships between clothes and sustainability. In addition she helps people think about how they can do for the environment in the fashion field and how they can make variety sustainable choices to reduce waste of clothes. As Sarah mentioned that sustainability of clothes is about a lot of little things, people might start from thinking where are clothes go and then researching any aspect about the clothes such as solutions or ideas, cotton farming, textile and recycle. This would increase awareness of sustainability for people in all ages.
Although more and more people engage into protecting and loving environment, either increasing the awareness of sustainability and has been imprinted in their mind, doing sustainable career is not easy especially when fast fashion becomes a trend within young generation, who prefer diversified or new design and quickly change the style of clothes. As this condition, Sarah mentioned that inspiring people notice and allowing people be part of the solution of sustainable clothes so that could gradually increase awareness of sustainability.
“It just can’t be individual when we talk about sustainability.” Sarah said.
It could be through science, technologies and even the government, combining all different aspect together and collaborating with each group.
