I would welcome greater scrutiny and inquiry from consumers as to what constitutes sustainability, it is often counter intuitive. For example, your vegan coat. Before I started Fashion-Incubator, I worked in coat manufacturing and know the ins and outs of the supply chain backwards and forwards. From a sustainability stand point, the vegan coat is less sustainable as compared to leather if you're looking at faux leather materials (quite an eco load there).

I guess my biggest beef with the industry is eco producers (anyone really) who produce lots of goods before they have any orders. The good they've done in sourcing eco materials is dramatically offset by producing quantities of goods that eventually end up in the discount market or worse, shipped overseas to needy countries whose local producers are then displaced by our free stuff. It is a very complex matter but the materials that go into it are the least of it.

And it's true that the interest is still small but there's at least 5,000 designers visiting my site every day who are interested in sustainable manufacturing so we can only hope this interest will continue. Honestly, I don't know how many visitors, I never check but it was that many a year or so ago. We have over 1,000 member manufacturers that share information in our forum so that may be a better indicator because it isn't public so they obviously are committed to working through this.

I would welcome greater scrutiny and inquiry from consumers as to what constitutes sustainability, it is often counter intuitive. For example, your vegan coat. Before I started Fashion-Incubator, I worked in coat manufacturing and know the ins and outs of the supply chain backwards and forwards. From a sustainability stand point, the vegan coat is less sustainable as compared to leather if you’re looking at faux leather materials (quite an eco load there).

I guess my biggest beef with the industry is eco producers (anyone really) who produce lots of goods before they have any orders. The good they’ve done in sourcing eco materials is dramatically offset by producing quantities of goods that eventually end up in the discount market or worse, shipped overseas to needy countries whose local producers are then displaced by our free stuff. It is a very complex matter but the materials that go into it are the least of it.

And it’s true that the interest is still small but there’s at least 5,000 designers visiting my site every day who are interested in sustainable manufacturing so we can only hope this interest will continue. Honestly, I don’t know how many visitors, I never check but it was that many a year or so ago. We have over 1,000 member manufacturers that share information in our forum so that may be a better indicator because it isn’t public so they obviously are committed to working through this.