Sara Interview 1

Sarah Laszlo, a fashion designer, discusses the popularity of fast fashion due to social media and micro-trends. She highlights the negative impact of fast fashion on the environment, with clothing being quickly discarded and polluting landfills. Sarah shares her efforts to combat this issue by thrifting and repurposing old clothes for her capstone project. She encourages supporting local businesses that prioritize sustainable and timeless fashion. Fast fashion is the second leading cause of pollution worldwide. Hello there. Welcome to the Bella Bast Podcast. I'm here with Sarah Laszlo, an inspiring fashion designer, to get a better insight on what is happening in the fashion world. Sarah, why do you think people choose fast fashion in the first place when there are other more sustainable options? I think that with the growth of social media and just media in general, that all the micro-trends are becoming so much more consistent, so quickly changing, and people buy the cheapest possible options so that they can still stay up to date with the trends. Big fashion brands just use lower quality items that go out of style so quickly. People throw them out, buy new fast fashion, and it just becomes one big problem. People wear an item just once or twice, maybe a few times, and then it's in the trash. Because these clothes are such low quality, and they're getting thrown away every so often really quickly, how do you think that's affecting our ecosystem and our world? Fast fashion is actually the second leading cause of pollution in the entire world. It's a huge issue. All the textile waste and materials for all the fast fashion clothing is getting thrown out into landfills, and it is a really ginormous issue that really should be fixed. I know you've been working about fast fashion for your capstone. What exactly are you doing, and how are you going to combat this issue? For a while now, I've only been thrifting or making my own clothes, so just one little step toward that direction. For my capstone, I am actually getting donations of clothing from friends and family, teachers, anyone I know of old clothes they don't use anymore. Instead of throwing them out, they give them to me, and I use the materials to make completely new, more timeless, cuter, and more fun-to-wear clothes, and give them back to them so that instead of going to waste, the clothing can be reworn. That is awesome. What do you think other people can do for this issue? Definitely support local small businesses that make more timeless fashion instead of trendy, and are using better materials that come from local areas, and good quality that will last a long time, because then you can support your local economy, rather than supporting these huge businesses that aren't ethically sustainable in any way. Well, thank you so much for your time, Sarah. See you next time! Bye!