‘Wearing a coffee shirt, you can go 3 days without bathing’
Fashion and furniture, sustainability may be quite strange to many people, but this is an extremely hot new trend of the world today. The coverage of sustainable fashion, sustainable furniture is increasingly dense, this trend is warmly welcomed from around the world thanks to its high applicability and environmental friendliness.
However, in order to achieve this development, the fashion and furniture industry must be equipped with a strong source of raw materials. Over the years, designers as well as garment and interior enterprises in Vietnam have been facing difficulties in raw materials for many years. In the current trend of sustainable development, natural materials have become an increasingly urgent issue, but also an opportunity for Vietnam, a country rich in traditions of handicrafts and natural products.
Understanding this, within the framework of Vietnam International Fashion Week Spring Summer 2022, fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam organized a workshop “Natural materials for fashion and interior” on May 25, Thereby, connecting domestic and foreign material and accessory manufacturers with domestic designers and manufacturers of fashion and furniture to produce “green” and environmentally friendly products.
Speakers and guests attending the workshop “Natural materials for fashion and interior”
Trang Le, President of Vietnam International Fashion Week (AVIFW), said that after two years of being heavily affected by Covid-19, all fashionistas must have a different view of post-modern fashion. Translate. Therefore, AVIFW offers a ReFashion message with many meanings, including a change in thinking (ReThinking), change in doing (ReInventing), change in operation (ReGenerating) to create a the new revolution (Revolution) towards sustainable development in fashion (Sustainable Fashion).
Ms. Trang Le, President of Vietnam International Fashion Week (AVIFW)
Here, Ms. Tran Hoang Phu Xuan – Founder and Director of Faslink textile factory surprised many people when she shared about the 2022 fashion-oriented materials: Coffee yarn, lotus fabric, oyster fabric. These materials, with outstanding features compared to ordinary fabrics such as coolness, sun protection, quick drying, still retain the same fabric after many washings, save water when producing fabrics… sportswear and underwear.
Ms. Tran Hoang Phu Xuan shares about the outstanding properties of sustainable fabrics
In particular, Ms. Xuan revealed: “It takes 5 plastic bottles and 3 cups of coffee to make a polo t-shirt. You can wear a shirt or wear socks for 2-3 days without a shower to test the deodorizing properties of a coffee shirt for yourself. get high”. She analyzed that in the coffee grounds there is an abundant source of cellulose (cellulose). Specifically, in each cup of coffee, up to 99.8% of coffee grounds will become garbage. This waste generates methane gas – a greenhouse effect agent. By polymerization technology, coffee grounds are combined with old plastic bottles to make coffee fibers. Polymerization technology helps the coffee fabric retain most of the features of coffee – natural stretch properties for comfort, good moisture absorption, light weight, quick drying, sun protection, high cooling index and Especially the feature of deodorizing the body is especially effective. These features are preserved throughout the life of the product.
Oyster fiber fabric is combined from recycled PET bottles and oyster shell powder using nanotechnology to create special oyster plastic beads, which have many different features such as anti-static, sunscreen, quick-drying. Oyster shell fabric contributes to minimizing the impact on the environment, and is reused many times.
Lotus fiber fabric was born with the aim of sustainable development. This fabric uses resistance technology on the outside of the fabric surface, making the fabric capable of self-cleaning the surface and effectively resisting stains. Lotus fiber fabric also has soft and stretchy properties.
By creating a new life cycle from natural ingredients, fashion houses have enhanced sustainability in fashion – balancing environmental protection, people and certain values for the environment. community. However, in order to build a brand that follows the trend of sustainable fashion, the price to pay is not small, including environmental protection costs to minimize the amount of harmful chemicals that will be released in the process. production, or invest in the development of modern production techniques to avoid wasting natural resources…
Laotian artisan Lo Thi Vien in Dien Bien was invited to demonstrate how to weave brocade fabric right at the event.
However, after the pandemic, brands not only focus on designs and trends but also really care about the sustainability of their products. Since then, the fashion and furniture world in general and Vietnam in particular need to have new ways of operating towards sustainable and long-term development.
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