SPFWN54, which takes place between November 16th and 20th, brings an important discussion of fashion: textile waste and post-consumer disposal. The event will have a large installation at the entrance of Komplexo Tempo, one of SPFW’s hubs, made from industrial waste, in a collaboration with designer Gustavo Silvestre, from the Ponto Firme project, which works with experimentation within the thought of art, fashion and sustainability and promotes social transformation through crochet, and professor Francisca Dantas Mendes, coordinator of the Sustex Sustainability Research Support Nucleus (NAP) at the University of São Paulo.
The SPFW+IN.PACTOS Festival, which ends in this edition, is committed to processes of transformation and innovation in the creative areas and also proposes to broaden the discussion on the enormous potential of fashion in its search for reinvention towards a circular economy. In partnership with INMODE and Instituto Sustentabilidade Textil em Moda, the Festival embraces the III International Congress on Sustainability in Textiles and Fashion, which precedes SPFW N54, from November 9th to 11th, highlighting the SDG practices in the fashion chain. The issue of textile waste and disposal is one of the central themes of this meeting.
Millions of tons of clothing are sold, used and discarded annually around the world. In the city of São Paulo alone, 20 tons of post-consumer clothing and 35 tons of waste are collected daily, most of which go to landfills.
Paulo Borges, founder and Creative Director of SPFW, says:
“Fashion is made and consumed by people. Together we have the opportunity to rethink and redesign our processes and habits and find solutions with creativity and innovation, generating benefits for the whole of society.”
A special work, coordinated by Professor Francisca, since 2015, rescues part of this material, with homeless people integrating with residents of the Marconi favela, in Vila Maria, in the capital of São Paulo. The clothes, after a selection, are placed in bales and sent to destinations throughout Brazil. Light clothes for the North/Northeast, the heaviest for the South/Southeast. An inclusive work that generates income for countless families. Francesca concludes:
“When Paulo invited me to participate in the development of this waste facility in partnership with Gustavo Silvestre, I thought it was brilliant. Only since 2017, when we started to measure the levels of textile waste using the residemeter, we have already measured an absurd 55 thousand tons of waste going to landfills and this is raw material that generates income and feeds a very important parallel economy.
We need to show people this reality and initiatives like this are important tools to spread activism within the fashion industry.”
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