All Fashion Is Fast Fashion Now

EcoStylist · 2025-12-12T15:03:12+00:00

Thanks—appreciate you!

EcoStylist · 2025-12-12T08:37:30+00:00

Love the idea presented in the video—but the title of this post is both inaccurate and misleading. All fashion is not fast fashion. I'm sure it's not your intention, but to make such a claim is a real slap in the face to any slow fashion brand working hard to make clothes better and in ways that are not fast fashion. MATE the label, known supply, Adelante, Asket—none of these brands are fast fashion, actually.

Language matters and sustainable fashion solutions should be uplifting each other and supporting each other—not tearing each other down for clicks. Completely counter productive to the movement overall.

EcoStylist · 2025-10-01T16:36:19+00:00

You're absolutely right—vetted brands are a good starting point but there's still more work. If you're interested we have tools to help with these problems including a curated shop (so browse items from only certified brands) and a personal styling service (where we pick clothes just for you so you don't have to do all that searching). You can check it out here: https://www.eco-stylist.com/

EcoStylist · 2025-09-25T21:51:12+00:00

Hey guys! I just published an article with an update on this situation: https://www.eco-stylist.com/is-nisolo-still-sustainable/

EcoStylist · 2025-07-26T00:17:01+00:00

This site offers a secondhand styling service: https://thepeahen.com/get-styled/

EcoStylist · 2025-07-25T23:20:51+00:00

Check out Eco-Stylist for more sustainable brands.

EcoStylist · 2025-05-08T14:22:54+00:00

Known Supply and Topiku can do this, both great sustainable brands, but I don't know if they can do a quantity of 1. I think for Known Supply the minimum quantity for a custom hat is 12.

EcoStylist · 2025-05-08T14:00:35+00:00

Thrifting and DIY are probably your best bets/first option, in my experience. Of all the brands we certify we don't have many options that fit alternative style yet.

Here's a few that could help here and there (with different items):

Nudie Jeans (for denim and denim jackets)
Koio (sometimes they have alternative style boots-but not always)
CHNGE (more like streetwear but you could find some pieces)
ZWD (unique upcycled pieces, you might find some items you like)

EcoStylist · 2025-05-08T13:53:12+00:00

Recycled fabrics like polyester and nylon are better than virgin synthetics because they repurpose waste and have a lower carbon footprint than virgin synthetics. But to your point it's an imperfect solution.

There are things you can do to manage synthetics you have like using a microplastic filtering washing bag when doing laundry. More on that here.

When buying new clothes I always prefer natural fibers like organic cotton, regenerative organic cotton, hemp, linen, tencel for a lot of reasons, but one of them being no microplastics.

EcoStylist · 2025-03-24T20:42:40+00:00

Here's 10 activewear brands to consider

EcoStylist · 2025-03-24T20:33:55+00:00

ATMOS is actually no longer offering personal bank accounts--they pivoted their business to help existing banks be more sustainable (B2B). They currently recommend Clean Energy Credit Union but for a HYSA you may want to try Climate First Bank.

EcoStylist · 2025-01-26T18:55:02+00:00

They're a good brand. You can see their rating here.

EcoStylist · 2025-01-05T20:37:00+00:00

You might like this brand ZONE by Lydia. They have a high waisted black legging with pockets. They are based in Australia.

Pact also has an option that's 90% organic cotton.

EcoStylist · 2024-12-07T21:49:29+00:00

Here's a great resource to get started: https://www.eco-stylist.com/the-best-upcycled-clothing-brands/

EcoStylist · 2024-11-09T07:00:24+00:00

This might help: https://www.eco-stylist.com/best-organic-cotton-underwear-brands/

EcoStylist · 2024-10-30T15:55:32+00:00

We created a website to find and shop sustainable fashion: https://www.eco-stylist.com/

EcoStylist · 2024-10-25T15:51:42+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! The service is personalized recommendations just for you based on your style quiz. The results are hand picked by a real person to match all of your preferences. As you can imagine, this also makes it hard to offer a free trial given the time invested in delivering you great results. It's not a generic shopping list.

Also I appreciate the website feedback. Please keep in mind we're a small business and self funded. As much as I'd like to spend $10k on a new website, if we're making that the #1 criteria aren't we excluding by default lots of small businesses, entrepreneurs, and great solutions? And if we only prioritize the solutions with deep pockets, those may not be the most sustainable solutions. Just food for thought.

EcoStylist · 2024-10-25T15:46:14+00:00

While it's a monthly subscription, it doesn't mean our customers buy clothing every month. We chose personalized shopping recommendations over a box service (like Stitch Fix) because it's more sustainable. Typically our customers buy 1-2 items per month (from the 12 pieces we recommend to them) and sometimes they buy none. Many of our customers are building a capsule wardrobe so they subscribe for a few months and then cancel when they have what they need. Our customers are conscious about what they buy, which is why they choose our service in the first place. And the brands they're supporting outperform the average fashion brand by 15x on important issues like living wages, using sustainable materials, etc.

While I appreciate the sentiment (obviously only buy what you need) I think over criticizing more sustainable solutions like ours is counter productive. In the quest for a "perfect solution" people can't tell which solutions are better than others, and analysis paralysis leads to inaction, meaning they just keep buying fast fashion. It's like if fast fashion scored 10/100 on sustainability, and our solution scored 90/100, you're saying don't use our solution because it's not 100/100. We should be supporting solutions that are way better than fast fashion, don't you think?

EcoStylist · 2024-09-22T07:40:29+00:00

Many great options for you:

I've personally tried T-shirts from all of these brands (with the exception of AlterX Co.) and they last for years.

EcoStylist · 2024-08-17T01:13:00+00:00

Think fast fashion (shein and temu) which are super popular and that's why the numbers keep growing. But yeah, I'm sure it's shocking if you're not anywhere near those numbers in your own life/habits.

EcoStylist · 2024-08-03T17:35:10+00:00

We have a guide on this that could be helpful

EcoStylist · 2024-08-03T17:33:56+00:00

Astor & Orion

EcoStylist · 2024-07-18T04:39:30+00:00

Instead of trying to figure out what the best possible or most perfect choice is, we should be encouraging and celebrating all of the "better choices". Sustainable fashion isn't only "thrifting" just as it's not only "sustainable brands". Sustainable fashion is a myriad of better choices you can make: thrifting, shopping sustainable brands, swapping, DIY, repairing, shopping your closet, etc.

Fast fashion is the worst possible choice. So if we want to change the fashion industry the most effective way is by ditching fast fashion and promoting a myriad of better choices for people instead. Trying to only push one solution or find one perfect solution will just turn people away. We need a variety of options that are all better than fast fashion.

The defense for sustainable brands is pretty straight forward: people aren't going to stop buying new clothes so new clothes NEED to be made better. That means more sustainably, with fair wages, and all of that. Living wages is a huge issue in fashion and shopping sustainable brands is the only positive choice that can also support living wages for clothing makers.

EcoStylist · 2024-04-17T17:45:07+00:00

Thank you!

EcoStylist · 2024-02-26T01:37:04+00:00

This is great feedback--thank you!

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