¡°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 ¡ª so long as they can thread a needle, that is.
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