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The "fix," as it's called, may be much more difficult for the dominant society than, say, a $50 check or a church trip to paint some graffiti-covered houses, or a suburban family donating a box of
clothes
they don't even want anymore.
This is not a story of a nameless survivor of war, and nameless refugees, whose stereotypical images we see in our newspapers and our TV with tattered clothes, dirty face, scared eyes.
I've been tailoring and making my own
clothes
from scratch ever since, so everything in my closet is uniquely my own.
But as I was sorting through the endless racks of
clothes
at these thrift stores, I started to ask myself, what happens to all the
clothes
that I don't buy?
It turned out that the
clothes
I was sorting though at these thrift stores represented only a small fraction of the total amount of garments that we dispose of each year.
In Canada, we throw away enough clothing to fill the largest stadium in my home town of Toronto, one that seats 60,000 people, with a mountain of
clothes
three times the size of that stadium.
The unfortunate reality is, not only do we waste a lot of the things we do consume, but we also use a lot to produce the
clothes
that we buy each year.
And I think to get started, all we have to do is start to design
clothes
to be recyclable at the end of their life.
But I think this can change if we design
clothes
in a modular way to be easily disassembled at the end of their lives.
But if we want to take fixing the environmental impact that the fashion industry has more seriously, then we need to take this to the next step and start to design
clothes
to also be compostable at the end of their lives.
For most of the types of
clothes
we have in our closet the average lifespan is about three years.
But one other thing that we have to rethink is the way that we dye our
clothes.
What if we were able to use something that we all have in our kitchen cabinets at home to dye our
clothes?
This would be pretty different than the
clothes
that were dyed harshly with chemicals that we're used to.
But dyeing
clothes
naturally this way would allow for us to make sure they're more unique and environmentally friendlier.
But what could be more personalized, more unique, than
clothes
that change color over time?
Clothes
that with each wash and with each wear become more and more one of a kind.
So this would just be another example of
clothes
that exist in our wardrobe that evolve with us over our lives.
Now, I'm not suggesting that everybody dye their
clothes
in their kitchen sink at home.
But if we were able to apply this or a similar process on a commercial scale, then our need to rely on these harsh chemical dyes for our
clothes
could be easily reduced.
But we can get started by designing
clothes
with their death in mind.
And I thought as I got closer I would be able to see all the detail of most people, see their clothes, and so forth.
The artist had very cleverly suggested people and
clothes
and wagons and all sorts of things, and my brain had taken the suggestion.
And it would clean your
clothes.
So you'd take the
clothes
out of here, put them in here, and then you'd run the
clothes
through this electric wringer.
He loved his vibrant, eclectic
clothes.
But people did pay attention to what
clothes
I had.
What was interesting was that, before I went up to New York as U.N. ambassador, I talked to Jeane Kirkpatrick, who'd been ambassador before me, and she said, "You've got to get rid of your professor
clothes.
If you saw these women on the street in their faded clothes, you might dismiss them as poor and simple.
An African shaman said, "Your society worships the jester while the king stands in plain clothes."
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