{"id":11793,"date":"2019-09-05t05:07:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-05t05:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/fast-fashion-slow-art-unravels-our-relationship-with-clothing\/"},"modified":"2019-09-05t05:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05t05:07:39","slug":"fast-fashion-slow-art-unravels-our-relationship-with-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/fast-fashion-slow-art-unravels-our-relationship-with-clothing\/","title":{"rendered":"fast fashion \/ slow art unravels our relationship with clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"
a new art exhibition just blocks from the white house brings awareness to the environmental and humanitarian costs of hyper affordable fast fashion. <\/p>\n
fast fashion \/ slow art<\/a>, showcased at the corcoran school of art & design, was co-curated by bibiana obler, associate professor of art history at the corcoran, and phyllis rosenzweig, curator emerita at the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden. the film-centric exhibition features pieces from an international pool of artists such as german filmmaker hito steyerl and chinese director wang bing.<\/p>\n \u201cone might think, given the title, that\u2019s a very didactic exhibition saying, \u2018fast fashion is bad! lets fight it,\u2019\u201d obler says. \u201cbut, that\u2019s not actually the message we want to convey. we want to start a conversation, especially because these issues are so complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n the wasteful nature of the clothing industry has come to the forefront of fashion conversation in recent years. brands that built empires on cheap, trendy clothing, such as the international retail giant zara, are even promising to change their ways.<\/p>\n just this summer, zara\u2019s parent company inditex announced their plan<\/a> to make their brands more sustainable by converting to 90% organic, recycled, or sustainable raw materials by 2025. however, these steps are not getting to the heart of the problem: the immense amount of clothing that is made from these or other materials. the amount of clothing produced each year doubled from 2000 to 2014<\/a> and the amount of clothing purchased by an average consumer rose 60%<\/a>.<\/p>\n while it is easy to think of sustainable fashion as a consumer issue, fast fashion \/ slow art forces audiences to face the opposite side of the coin and consider how the garments that line our closets were made in the first place.<\/p>\n the exhibition depicts the issues as largely cultural. martin de thurah\u2019s film “stories,” for instance, plays with the concept of disposability as it shows a model taking off t-shirt after t-shirt and tossing each on the ground as she walks down a city street.<\/p>\n