SO HOW ARE PLASTIC SHOES SUSTAINABLE WHILE LEATHER SHOES ARE NOT?
The fashion industry lies all the time. In a whiplash of schizophrenic frenzy, the fashion media assures women (and, to some extent, men), that there are no rules anymore, then proceeds to set forth arbitrary and inconsistent rules for not following rules.
The nonsensical label Vetements is an iconic example. ("Iconic" is one of the fashion industry's favorite words.) . The creators have taken downscale work clothes, perhaps, or perhaps not, added a flourish of their own, and raised the price of a standard tee shirt to hundreds of dollars. Mr. Kanye West's Yeezy line also demonstrates a remarkable ability to wrest funds from consumers for ugly and uncomfortable "streetwear" made out of ridiculous materials.
I for one, hope these lines make endless fat stacks of cash. After all, a fool and her money are soon parted. The only sadness comes from the fact that the profits will go to pompous assholes who fancy themselves creative artists, rather than to the workers who actually create the garments.
Funds flow endlessly towards idiotic blowhards currently creating much of the preposterousness masquerading as fashion not only because the fashion industry lie all the time, but also because people (mostly women, sadly) want to believe these lies. In fact, if the fashion media told a truth--for example: "wearing a $2,000 down puffer jacket that is falling off your shoulders in the middle of a hot Los Angeles day makes you look pretentious and silly"--millions of media trolls and influencers would immediately retort that such a look constituted a "statement," and was "of the moment," etc. More entertaining, counter trolls and influencers would support the statement and begin a "movement" to boycott puffer jackets as ecologically unsustainable.
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