Amber Valletta Quotes

We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.

Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

What I really want to happen is for all companies to become eco - especially fast fashion companies.

You can't separate the clothes from the stores, from the environment.

I feel it is urgently necessary to train people who are capable of tackling the various problems we face today in regards to environmental turmoil and the relevancy of clothing.

The fashion business has to change. There's too much waste.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

I do like shopping high street, but I do consider the long-term value of a specific piece and, also, one day giving it up for somebody else to love and enjoy.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

For ethical fashion, I really like Reformation. It's so fashionable - no hemp trousers.

Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!

I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.

Consuming less is the fastest way to eco-fashion redemption - particularly if your preference is for leather, not hemp.

There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.

As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.