How to fix fashion and protect the planet | Amy Powney

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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From the field to your closet, your clothes go on a long journey before they enter your life. Designer Amy Powney explores the fashion industry's brutal impact on the environment and human health, modeling what ethical, planet-friendly clothing can look like — and inviting us all to think beyond the label.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:14.1	We get clothing these days so much faster and often so much cheaper than ever before.
0:19.8	Then we dispose of these clothes that traveled a long way to get to us.
0:24.2	In her 2023 talk from Ted Countdown Summit, fashion designer AAB Pounty calls on all of
0:29.7	us to take sustainability seriously when it comes to our clothing.
0:34.3	Not just where they wind up, but also the entire system of where clothes come from after
0:40.1	a break.
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1:10.4	How is determined to be a designer, a fashion designer?
1:13.7	My career was built of my childhood happy place of crafting with my mother and I dreamt of unleashing
1:19.5	my creativity in an industry that was born on style and trends and luxury.
1:24.7	It was a contradiction to my own childhood of hand-me-downs and no logos, often teased
1:30.1	by my peers.
1:31.1	I grew up in the north of England off-grid.
1:34.7	My parents worked as local food farmers and I had to really not understanding of where
1:40.0	things came from.
1:41.2	We were the bottom of the food chain, we all worked as farmers and I watched our small
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