{"id":4504,"date":"2010-07-19T02:47:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2010-07-19T02:47:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:47:31","slug":"eco-fashion-going-green-at-the-museum-at-fit-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/eco-fashion-going-green-at-the-museum-at-fit-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Fashion: Going Green at The Museum at FIT in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This lava colored dress is from Costello Tagliapietra’s spring 2010 collection and gets its color via AirDye technology.<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo Courtesy AirDye<\/a><\/em> via Creative Commons License<\/em><\/p>\n

Eco-Fashion: Going Green The Museum at FIT through November 13<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This exhibit<\/a> is free of charge and housed in the museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, one of the country’s leading fashion schools. What most impressed me about the collection is that it did not begin with eco-fashion, but with a brief history of fashion from the 1800’s. The exhibit included a key which identifies the six major areas of impact, and each piece had symbols identifying the biggest issues around its manufacture. Each piece also had a brief description explaining the problem. Everything from the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire, which killed many women because the factory lacked adequate fire safety, to the highly toxic dyes that were used in some clothes. Some of the older pieces were examples of reuse, showing how people used to turn old quilts or rugs into clothing.<\/p>\n

The six themes are:<\/p>\n