Updated on November 8, 2023
Why vintage is environmentally friendly
If there’s something you need or want but you want to keep it as economical as possible, what’s your first go-to strategy? Chances are that buying it secondhand is toward the top of your list.
As it turns out, it isn’t only your wallet that benefits when you buy pre owned items. The whole planet owes you a debt of gratitude. You can incorporate retail therapy into your Earth Day 2020 celebration because buying preloved luxury items helps the environment in several ways.
1. Conserving Materials
Every item you buy is a combination of materials that had to come from somewhere. In far too many cases, those materials came from limited resources within our planet. Did you know there are fossil fuels in most types of plastic?
Even when limited resources aren’t actual ingredients in an item’s materials, they can still be compromised. For instance, growing crops for natural ingredients often involves harmful pesticides, adding pollution to the air, and using valuable water.
When you buy second hand, of course, there are no new materials so you spare the environment from that damage.
2. Minimizing Harmful Production Practices
When a manufacturer produces a new item, it isn’t only the materials that can harm the planet. The process of turning those materials into the finished product often puts the ecosystem at risk too.
While every product is different, manufacturing typically uses extensive amounts of energy thanks to all the machinery involved in modern factories. This uses precious resources while typically adding serious pollution to the environment. None of this happens when you buy the item preowned.
3. Skipping the Recycling Process
Many people choose not to sell or donate their items to second hand retailers because they recycle the items instead, and they believe that this saves the planet from the damage of tossing the items into a landfill. This might be well-intentioned, but it isn’t as effective as many people think.
Recycling is better than trashing your items, but the recycling process still causes some amount of harm to the ecosystem. It requires energy and, in most cases, not all of the materials are recyclable so there is some amount of waste.
The better choice is to participate in a secondhand market, supporting them by both buying and selling your items from them, to take all that waste out of the equation.
Serving Your Pocket and the Planet by Shopping Preowned
Whether you call it preowned, preloved, or secondhand, the fact is the same: giving existing luxury items a new life is a great way to protect the planet from the damage a new item can cause.
To enjoy some online shopping while making an eco-conscious choice, start with our online preowned shop today.
Updated on November 21, 2023
Luxury Fashion for Women’s Rights
Fashion can be empowering. Not only does it make us feel great; but it also promotes creativity, individualism, and equality.
“Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events.
You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes.
You can see and feel everything in clothes.”
– Diana Vreeland
This current revolution in women’s rights is palpable and luxury brands are leading the way. Women’s clothing is as bold and unpredictable as their wearers.
How Designers are Supporting Women’s Rights
Chloé Partners with UNICEF to promote Gender Equality
On the 8th of March 2020 luxury label Chloé will initiate a three-year partnership with Unicef to promote gender equality. Chloé has been stepping forward in recent years to promote equality and women’s rights, and we couldn’t be happier.
The partnership with Unicef will see Chloé designing a specific range of Power Tees, necklaces and bracelets. All proceeds from sales will go towards various Unicef young girls and women’s education programs.
Prada and Fendi Donate Personal Items for Auction – Preloved from the Designers Themselves!
Our two favorite designers chose last year to donate some personal designer bags and clothes to support the Non-Profit Organization Mothers2Mothers during an auction.
Mothers2Mothers, which is dedicated to preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV by providing education and support for pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV, received 100% of the proceeds.
Who knows what you can find secondhand these days – perhaps something that hung on the arm of Silvia Fendi or Miuccia Prada!
Burberry Donates Work Wardrobes For International Women’s Day (IWD)
If you want to get the job, you need to look the part. Burberry’s understood this and decided to do something about it for their 2019 IWD campaign. The label paired up with UK charity Smart Works to offer women in need outfits to land the job.
Burberry has in fact been working with Smart Works since 2013, looking into the broader impact fashion brands can have through the donation of surplus stock. Exploring the benefits of a more circular approach – similar to buying preloved luxury brands.
“You can have anything you want in life
if you dress for it.” – Edith Head
Gucci teams up with Chime For Change to Help Women be Heard
The fashion powerhouse teamed up with Salma Hayek Pinault and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter in 2013 to fight inequality. Chime for change was born and is going from strength to strength.
Each year they use the platform, supported by activists, artists, and a number of big organizations, to spread stories that promote change.
In their words: “to inspire participation in a collective community, bringing people together across borders and generations in the fight for equality”
How You are Supporting Women’s Rights by Buying Preloved Designer Brands who supports the cause.
Sustainability, upcycling and a circular economy are the future. There is a quote by David Brower that sums it up perfectly:
”We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
Fast Fashion is polluting the planet – and in the process harming the environment for future generations of men and women.
By buying quality preloved items, you’re helping create a healthier environment for the next generation. Your items will last longer and you’ll be able to resell these timeless pieces again in the future.
Celebrate this International Women’s Day in Style and Give Back
By supporting sustainable fashion you are empowering other women, saving the planet,dressing like a #SheBoss and being an overall kickass gal!
And don’t let the price hold you back, buying preloved supports a circular economy, saving you dollars and putting some in another girl’s purse.
Opting for new? Buy from the brands that are making a difference this International Women’s Day… The Devil doesn’t wear Prada – you do