HanCummings

Fast Fashion. I am sure this is a term you are familiar with, it is practically everywhere at the moment. The push for urgent action against the climate crisis is huge right now. Whether it be about eating less meat, planting more trees, or boycotting online fashion retailers, protesters like the 'Extinction Rebellion' have done it all. Fast fashion is a major contributor to this. This is a term referring to the way that we buy, consume and waste clothes at such a high speed now. This means more seasons, cheaper clothes, easily accessible. This is partly due to the 'youth quake' of the 60's and the evolution of haute couture, to high-street fashion to online retailers. The escalation of mass-production and huge amounts of pollution follow after that. The facts are pretty shocking. Fashion is the second biggest polluter in the world, second to oil. The fashion industry emits 5% of the global emissions, trumping both air travel and international shipping

I have been meaning to write again. Textbook excuse- but things have been hectic. September. The final year of A-levels is upon us and yes, it is extremely daunting. It is times like these though that I feel like writing is important. I need to keep an outlet for my own expression because over the next upcoming months it will no longer matter how I think about things- but instead how an examiner will. Goodbye to my independent mind. I mean already as I am writing this my brain feels frazzled. Is it the lack of sleep? The full on days? The school workload? Most probably. Anyway. I tend to do this. I for one struggle with writing about my own self personally. Tell me to write about an event or somewhere I visited- yes can do. But as soon as it becomes more personal I seem to struggle. I want to overcome this as I find reading writings from others who have been raw is the sort that inspires me. It is art the way some people can put words together. So my feeling for today. Lost