Can RFK Jr Make America Healthy Again?

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     Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been chosen by President Trump to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. or RFK Jr. as he’s affectionately nicknamed, hails from the very promininent and politically involved Kennedy family. He has a great legacy to uphold as the Kennedy family has so strongly and positively impacted the historical and political landscape of the United States. That family has experienced so much tragedy amongst its members but they’ve managed to overcome. The matriarch and patriarch of the Kennedy family, Joseph and Rose must be smiling down with joy about the impact that their entire lineage has made on society. RFK Jr. is an environmentalist that has been a leading figure in the mission to protect the planet and could be considered a Godfather of environmentalism due to all of his environmentally focused work and generous efforts to create change within the field. He founded the Pace University Environmental Li...
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The Future of Sustainable Fashion

We are on the brink of a new era in fashion, an era that is completely embracing of sustainability and ecological integrity. Trendsetters and the fashion forward are learning to adopt proverbs such as “waste not want not!”





Those pieces from Max Mara may be three seasons old but so what! There is no need to waste perfectly good fashion! It’s okay to adopt a mindset of minimalism in sustainable fashion. You won’t want for anything when you invest in well-made fashion. You extend the wear of your clothing because the pieces are so carefully constructed that you don’t want or need to part ways with them. Prioritizing a few stylish well-made pieces over hundreds of mass produced ill fitting garments is one style standard that should always be held in the most high regard.

I coined a term for the most popular mass produced fashion company at current: “Fashion-NONO!” Can you guess which one that is!?! Hahah! The future of sustainable fashion entails saying no to these types of companies and embracing those who place eco-consciousness at the helm of their design and creation ideologies. The future of fashion belongs to those companies and designer houses who believe in eco-conscious fashion and who adopt methods of production that are respectful of our planet.




I have no choice as a leader in the green lifestyle movement to call out companies whose clothing are made using the labor of children or adults who are forced to work for pennies on the dollar. Be aware of the places that you frequent for clothing. Just say no to places like Fashion-No No. Chances are, if the prices are that unbelievable, there may indeed be slave labor involved. You might want to skim through this article: DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWS FASHION CONSUMERS AND SHEDS LIGHT ON HARSH CONDITIONS OF THE SWEATSHOP WORKER.

Sustainable Fashion Means Making Ethical Style Choices
Adopting a lifestyle of sustainable style requires absTAINING from wasting. Are your closets and wardrobe dressers full to the brim? Well—Don’t go out shopping for more until you recycle the perfectly good garments that you already have! There are so many ways to recycle your designer duds! You can give them away to charity, sell them to consigner shops or places like thredup (the world’s largest online thrift store).
As fashion takes on a chameleon-like nature, we see public figures or celebrities embracing sustainable fashion too! Most recently, Princess Beatrice recycled one of her grandmother’s dresses and made it her own on one of the most important days of her life. With just a simple addition of puffed sleeves and expert tailoring, the dress became anew. And boy did she wear that dress!





This is an archetypal example of what iT means to be fashionably conscious. She even recycled her shoes, which were a lovely, sparkly pair of Valentino pumps. Bravo to Bea for upholding standards of sustainable fashion, choosing not to BE wasteful and giving new life to a perfectly good ole garment. This is not surprising as royals are not wasteful and are often seen wearing outfits multiple times. This is quite different than how things were in the 90s or what I'd call the “clueless era” of fashion. Fashion snobs wouldn't ever desire to caught wearing the same thing twice during this eta. Gladly, those times have changed.

This year, we saw Pam Anderson team up with Ashoka, Paris to create a full line of handbags made using a sustainably conscious process which entails substituting animal hide for apple skin.





How they do it?! I don’t know but it is one marker that lets us know that the future of sustainable fashion will be one that doesn’t require sacrificing quality.
What with Vintage Fashion?

One area of green fashion is vintage fashion. Vintage fashion has always been very dear to me. Being a born and bred NY’er was extremely convenient because—hey —we have the best vintage shops in world. No lie! That’s something I will always toot the New York horn for. London comes a close second when it comes to vintage fashion stores.
As a youngster, I remember taking discreet teenage trips downtown, and to my favorite neck of the woods, Soho, where I would always find the most charming vintage pieces. I have always been an indulger of sustainable fashion and I’d like to think that my vintage fashion past is what moved me to establish businesses rooted in ethical fashion and beauty.
The future of sustainable fashion is one that is fully embracing of yesteryear’s garments; one where a person can select an old garment, wear it and fool everyone in thinking that it was made in a more modern time.






Such a garment would be considered the ideal vintage piece. All vintage shoppers know the rush…the feeling you get when you find the quintessential vintage piece to mix and match with more modern pieces or when you find one to wear solo dolo! Vintage Fashion will continue to play a large role in future of sustainable fashion. It will require reflecting back to a time period where fashion was real, timeless and unique. The future of fashion entails turning away from mass produced fabrics that were introduced in the late 60s and 70s and back to one where pure and natural fabrics are the coveted and first choice! And who knows….maybe someone will invent a new type of fabric that is both ethically derived and has an extremely low carbon footprint. this is what i foresee for the future of sustainable fashion!

#socialresponsibility #ethicalfashion #ecofashion #sustainablefashion

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