Danuta Szerszynska

Comment on: Vivienne Westwood's "stop shopping" shocker

Danuta Szerszynska's comment 11 February 2010 7:15 pm

Yes Vivienne Westwood is rather mad, especially not to address the extreme contradiction in her statement, and many she's made in the past...but it ought to drive someone mad to spend every waking moment creating products and convincing people to buy them while knowing full well the toll it is taking on the very environment that sustains us. Jessica Brown, I'm afraid you are living in a bubble. You are right to say that not buying clothes for six months is not going to save the planet - obviously. But to say that 'perhaps the environmental impact of the clothing sector should at some point be examined' is very short-sighted and frankly ridiculous! 'Perhaps'!? 'At some point'!? To put the economy and fashion's 'health' before the survival of potentially the majority of life on earth is a joke. It is our economic model which is mainly at fault in making many people believe that continual growth on a finite planet with finite resources is somehow the answer. Furthermore the fashion industry encourages this growth model by manufacturing desire for products that will not ultimately lead to happiness through mindless trends and patronising marketing techniques. Maybe if we stop blindly believing that spending sprees will somehow save us, the Government will be forced to accept that an economic model which is driving us to the brink of self-destruction needs a swift and radical re-think. If Vivienne Westwood really gives more than a crazy sound-bite's worth of a hoot about the planet why the heck doesn't she start acting like it? Where is the recycling? Where is the environmentally sustainable business model? She needs to grow up and realise she can't have her cake and eat it.