Fashioning a future

The days of chic foreign designer labels and cheap imports are numbered.

I’ve come over all futurologist. this came on after I bumped into a friend who is a major fashion academic and he told me he had just been at a conference in Miami about “the future of fashion in America”.


I didn’t have the chance to ask Ted what conclusions they’d reached over there, but I’ve been mulling it over ever since and I have reached this one: fashion as we know it doesn’t have a future.

It doesn’t have a future any more than the internal combustion engine does. I don’t know how long it will take for the current fashion system to become unworkable, but I’m certain it will happen. Just call me Pradadamus.

Even if you haven’t seen An Inconvenient Truth, or the even more terrifying documentary about peak oil, The End of Suburbia, it can’t have passed you by that even reluctant groups such as the Bush Administration and the Howard Government are now accepting that destructive climate change, caused by man-made carbon emissions, is a big and real and scary thing. Coming now, to a planet near you.

Sydney Morning Herald