Erin O'Connor Quotes

I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you research to the textile industry yourself, you'll know why. I came to it personally.

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.

Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.

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

In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.

I spend a lot of time in American Apparel.

Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.

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

Clothing isn't disposable.

The way I shop and the way I engage with my wardrobe, those experiences don't come to life on Amazon's platform.

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

I find shoes difficult to be ethical about.

I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five that are cheaper but made with GMO cotton, which is hard on Earth, sewn by slave labor, shipped all the way from China on boats that use lots of oil and can kill whales with ship strikes and sold by (some) companies that could treat their

I think there are a few brands like Nike and Patagonia which are quite progressively minded.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

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.

As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

I am not a hoarder, but my wardrobe is the antithesis of fast fashion. I buy clothes - beautiful in looks and make - to last. I originally stored away things like Ossie Clark because I could not bear to part with such treasures.

There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.

Even though I avoid buying clothes that are 'in fashion', choosing things I fall in love with and wearing them till they fall apart - and generally going for vintage when it comes to evening wear - I still, like every woman I know, suffer from occasional pangs of 'clothes guilt'.

Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

Fashion is a logical place to start to raise awareness for sustainable causes.