Out of Fashion - Upmade in EE | Talk with Reet Aus and Anthony Luciano

See a discussion with designer and activist Reet Aus and Anthony Luciano on "Out of Fashion," a documentary exploring how to reduce environmental impact through fashion design! This program took place on May 21 at Scandinavia House as part of UPMADE IN EE, an exhibition held in May during the NYCxDESIGN Festival. Designer and activist Reet Aus first began studying the environmental impact of fashion production during her doctoral thesis. These studies took her to the epicenter of the fashion industry — Bangladesh — and later led her to create the UPMADE® certification system, which enables designers to reduce production waste in factories in Bangladesh as well as Turkey, Poland, Kenya and Estonia. Out of Fashion looks at the most complicated type of waste in Western society — post-consumer textiles — through a journey that led Aus and her co-filmmaker Jaak Kilmi to Kenya, a graveyard of used clothes. Following the screening, Aus and Luciano discuss the film and the questions it raises. How do you create a produce that does not become trash after a few uses? And what is the designer’s power and role in this chain? Learn more about programs at Scandinavia House here: https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/ #sustainability #sustainablefashion #sustainableliving