Sustainable fashion design talent exists in the South Asian region, it can just be hard to find.
. While there’s progress being made, there’s still a long road ahead.
Sponsored by Aranya, a team made up of local artisans lead by designer and activist Rubi Ghaznavi, Rahman has spent months at a time in Bangladesh working within the green factories. “It’s been a journey of unlearning habits from both sides", he explains. “I naturally assumed Bangladesh would be the worst place to produce sustainable clothes but what I saw with my own eyes is that it’s only the rich that aren’t sustainable.
Her vinyl-coated suits, for example, were classed as faulty by the factory but Hussain says she “found beauty in the irregularity of it all” and decided to repurpose the ‘waste materials’. Now she plans to work more with silk weaving within Bangladesh, as this vast history of sustainable textiles has been forgotten about for too long.
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