GREEN is the new BLACK. Creating ethical fashion is becoming more mainstream as consumer awareness about how clothes are actually produced means it’s much easier to shop with social responsibility and go for environmentally friendly styles.
One brilliant example is Marbella Design Academy’s Bachelor of Fashion graduate Brodie Alexandra. A vegan from the age of 14 and vegetarian for life with a passion for ethics and sustainability, Brodie believes in preserving the world we live in and using fashion as a platform to generate interest and intrigue.
As such she has set up her own label, Alexandra Brodie, making clothes from recycled fabrics and not using any animal products or by-products. Over the past 3 years she has been studying sustainability in fashion in conjunction with her fashion design degree at Marbella Design Academy. Brodie has also just completed an internship with 3to33, a United Nations Nexus project whose aim is to raise awareness to 33 pressing world issues using 33 enlightening short videos. The aim of the campaign was to captivate a mass audience with short powerful videos, each new video increasing in time by one minute until reaching the final 33 minute video. Every eye-catching and captivating costume related to the issues were created by her, as shown here.
Brodie said, “The fashion industry is one of the most unsustainable industries, destroying lives, villages, nature and animals. People buy so many products and then just throw them away. I want more people to use sustainable resources in fashion, or even know that it’s an option.”
To get in touch with Brodie email her at alexandrabrodie.designs@gmail.com.
To enquire about a getting into a career in fashion and securing a place on Marbella design academy’s Bachelor of Fashion programme see www.designschool.com
