Fashion can be a gateway to a sustainable lifestyle.
is thinking about how our clothing choices affect the planet, and she wants to help others learn what it means to be environmentally aware in our clothing choices. “Fashion is where people talk the most about sustainability,” she says. “How do we think about the clothes we wear, and what happens in their lifecycle? There is so much waste in our landfills from the fashion industry."
To Migas, fashion is the perfect gateway to a more sustainable lifestyle. “Fashion is a very tangible thing,” she says. “We wear it every day, and it’s something we can be a part of to promote change. It’s very easy for people to get that connection.”on Wednesday, March 16, on sustainable fashion and how to create responsible companies.
Pandemic life also allowed for a slower pace and for Migas to take the time to visualize what she and Birchfield wanted WIS to be. “We realized the community was there," she says."We wanted to create an organization that can create change.” The Facebook group led to a website, and WIS became an official 501 nonprofit organization last year.. The combination of being a nonprofit and a membership group is designed to make involvement as accessible as possible.
Migas says the Facebook group page remains a very active place for the community to have conversations and share information. “We see a lot of posts about fashion and people asking questions about how to responsibly dispose of things, or how can they just do better. Fashion is a subject of interest to a lot of people, so it’s important for us to talk about it.”
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