Read this in a fashion history textbook last night:

Fashion’s inherent obsolescence, whereby clothes are discarded on the basis of the desire for stylistic novelty rather than for utilitarian reasons, generates a passionate response from consumers and theoreticians alike.

Fashion has been held up to ridicule, condemned as an insidious form of capitalist manipulation and dismissed as a merely frivolous aesthetic phenomenon – since it is forever changing, it can be of no lasting value.

– From the Introduction to Mendes and Haye’s 20th Century Fashion

It seems like some parts of the ethical fashion movement are driven by this sentiment, which actually strikes us more as anti-fashion. Please feel free to share your thoughts below — we’d love to hear them!