Fast Fashion - The Journey of Winter Jumper & Bobble Hat
Fast fashion refers to cheap, trendy clothing that samples ideas from the catwalk or celebrity culture and turns them into garments in high street stores at lightning speed to meet consumer demand.
The idea is to get the newest styles on the market, so shoppers can purchase them when in style & discard them after a few wears.
Imagine this winter you buy a lovely jumper and bobble hat.... Let's take a little look at these garments' journey.
What are these items made of?
Cheap fabrics like polyester, polyurethane, rayon, spandex, nylon, made from non-renewable fossil fuels - petrochemical textiles. They require an immense amount of energy and resources to be produced. .
Cheap, toxic textile dyes - Today, 90% of our clothes are dyed synthetically and require incredible amounts of water and often toxic...
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Raquel Noboa
Founder & CEO
Raquel Noboa moved to Ireland from her native Spain in 1998 and has been working in the Irish hospitality sector since then. As an independent consultant, Raquel specialised in Greening businesses by reducing their use of water and energy, and their production of waste. Raquel won the title of Irish Hospitality Institute (IHI) Environmental Manager of the Year in 2015. She also led Hotel Doolin to win the Platinum Award on Green Hospitality in 2014, twice winner of the Tourism & Entertainment Award 2015 & 2016 from the National Green Awards, IBEC Environmental Awards 2016 amongst others. In 2020 Raquel started working with Secondary Schools in Ireland through the Building a Greener Future programme, to give the young generations the knowledge and skills they require to calculate their home and school's carbon emissions, so we can help build a society that is carbon conscious in the future and assist the government's NetZero targets.
