Sustainable Fashion

Our Common Future

In the 1980s, the United Nations set up the Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtland Commission.

The outcome of this order was a comprehensive document entitled “Our Common Future”, also called the Brundtland Report. According to the report, sustainable development is development which “meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (“Sustainability,” 1987)

The Commission led to a successful unification of environmentalism with social and economic concerns on the world’s development agenda. Sustainability revolves around the concepts of moving forward ecologically, socially and environmentally that altogether find ways towards a long lasting prosperity.

Sustainability comes down to the kind of future we are leaving for the next generation. The desperate need for sustainability in fashion has been recognized over the past decade and has made its appearance among the work of various designers in their own understanding of the word sustainable. As designers become more and more aware of the changing environmental and economical conditions of the world, the products offered by the same are becoming more and more multi-dimensional- advanced in utility and durability at once.