“A small hole in your clothing does not affect your beauty.”
That’s what provocative Japanese designer and performance artist Lunna Menoh used to write in the labels of her recycled fashion garments; a plea to consumers to take delight in the aging process of fashion and wear items for a little bit longer.
In times past, when needlework was considered essential knowledge, you would have just darned a hole should it appear or rehemmed a skirt to match the current trends. In this sense, it is hard to take the fashion industry’s performative hand-wringing over sustainability seriously. We already know the solution is actually in consumers’ hands — so long as they can thread a needle, that is.