Sustainable Style Quotes

If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it.

I've always been into thrifting. I'm a fan of finding unique pieces and having them tailored or altered.

It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.

I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.

My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.

Doing the eco-accessory thing doesn't have to mean giving up designer labels. In fact, quite the opposite.

Build a wardrobe rather than focusing on trends.

My personal style is somewhat androgynous and simple. With my lifestyle, I've become more of a minimalist.

We're all aware of the huge plastic crisis and the effect it's having on our planet. Fashion has a key role in that, but also there are ways we can deal with it. Stella McCartney is someone to look up to in that sense, she makes the bigger point in her collection that you can be sustainable and stylish.

I'd like to think we can make a nice, glowing change to British dressing.

I don't at all want to resemble some of these young designers who ask hallucinating prices for rags that are so in fashion now, that six months later, they are old-fashioned! I love vintage boutiques, I love to customize my clothes. And then, with my friends, we regularly exchange togs.

I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.

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

Many of the customers here are traveling all over the world so they need multiple types of clothes. That's one thing about Urban Zen - it is seasonless and it is timeless. So it's not about the fashion of a moment saying, "I have to have it now." It's something that you become a part of...sort of like a sari.

I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist.

Clothing shouldn't be a societal shackle. It should be art and truth and a way for us to show the world what we want out of it. It's environmental armor.