Why DARCY is going green in 2021:
1. The fashion industry is the second most polluting industry next to the oil industry. (The True Cost)
2. The fashion industry is comprised of 90% women working in factories on $2 or less per day. (The True Cost)
3. Factory conditions in Dhaka led to the death of over 1k people in 2013 alone. (The True Cost)
4. The U.S. alone sends about 21 billion pounds of textile waste to landfills every year. (Remake)
5. Only 10-15% of donated clothing in America actually ends up in the secondhand market. (Remake)
6. Forests in Indonesia, Canada’s Boreal and temperate rainforests and the Amazon are being logged for next season’s fashion and apparel. Increasingly, these forests are being used in the manufacture of dissolving pulp to produce fabrics such as rayon/viscose, modal and lyocell. (Canopy)
DARCY is slow fashion - made in a studio by one designer creating and executing, not outsourced. We make pieces that work with capsule wardrobes, meaning minimalists can make our pieces work with just about anything.
How we are improving is our fabrics - we are looking more into where they are sourced and made. Lastly, we are trying to collaborate with more non-profits throughout the year.
Non-profits we have joined to improve fashion sustainability and fight fast fashion consumerism:
www.textileexchange.org: as an ally, we receive fibre quick guides about organic materials, webinars, corporate benchmark brand reports, access to round tables, annual fibre market reports and sourcing guides.
Some groups we do not apply to yet because we are not mass-production. As we grow, these are the non-profits we plan to join in the future:
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