How the fashion industry is grappling with "deadstock"
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Fashion designers are showcasing their upcoming collections at New York Fashion Week. But beyond the runway, there's a growing awareness of "deadstock," which are unsold items and the materials used to create them. Here's the impact the that deadstock is having on the fashion industry.
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I think people are sick of fashion trends and their designers. What a wasteful industry.
Omg. Yes! Underconsumption is the new “trend” fashion is such a waste these days.
I agree. With ‘be practical’ and ‘apply common sense’ the new trend. Well done to Jessica, Camille, and Stephanie.
the fact clothes have degraded massively in quality is also a major cause, polyester isnt even a good fabric its straight up plastic (Which isnt good for the environment) combine that with fast fashion and you've got mother nature's worst nightmare, theres also the decrease in just clothing quality in general when it comes to sewing and what not, zero understitching whatsoever, tacky zippers, zero wool or cotton, crappy fabric blends, then theres the fact thrift stores (who get their items for free) are now selling their items at high prices.
Im sick of trends and their designers too..
You are missing the point. It's not about trends or designers, it's about clothing manufacturing. You think that Walmart Tshirt from the container ship from China or the Bangladeshi made dress shirt has waste, too and there is no infrastructure to deal with dead stock.
You replace a staple, you will have dead stock. Period. Some factories in China will use it for stuffing, which isn't always a popular choice.
Oscar Wilde said, “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we must change it every six months.” He was right and mass fashion is an incredibly ugly business.
I think that Oscar's take on fast fashion, and it's getting worse, I've heard it is now changing every few weeks. To me, fast fashion is the main villain in the fashion industry
Something doesn't sit right with me... So those luxury fashion companies send their waste to Fabscrap and collect a pat on the back, while volunteers provide unpaid labour to actually deal with this stuff? They should be made to pay for this.
Exactly!!! Like we’re so proud to donate our rubbish 😭 Do they hear themselves??
Not just this. What about the fabric wasted in the actual production of the pieces ? It’s easy to collect fabrics from a posh looking studio making the designs, what about the factory floor producing it in bulk. Can go sweep a third world country sweat shop floor now , can we ?
Like you said it, they volunteered. No one forced them to provide unpaid labor. The companies give Fabscrap their waste because Fabscrap offered it. If the industry is forced to pay more, they’d rather dump their waste into landfills or burn it.
They offered their labour because they realise that's the only way anything will be done, but it doesn't mean it's the way it SHOULD be done. The companies should be forced by law to assume full responsibility for their waste, and that includes footing the bill.
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Imagine coming here on a time machine from an age where all fabric was hand woven, and folks were lucky to have one good suit, and seeing this.
That's why we must produce million meters of fabrics a day everywhere in the world, so nobody has ever live without their fabrics.
@@finfan83 That is true, but it is also a fact of life now that since the 2008 crash, said fabric is now deliberately made with polyester, aka it is not original now and has worse qualities for the exact same high price.
@@turkizno oh that is a failure indeed, we should be doing all the good fabrics we learned to weave over history of humankind
@@finfan83clothes are legitimately ending up in the deserts of Ghana because humans have produced so much over stock. Just google, “Dead White Man’s Clothes”
The irony is that many designers will do handmade clothing, VS Walmart
Can we as a whole society stop consuming so much crap in general?
😂😂No maam. Go hide under a rock if you think people will stop consuming for living life in general. Bi product of all proccess of life is inevitable its just a matter of being able to repurpose and recycle as much of that waste as possible. 😂😂
We need to stop being let around by our nose through social media!
The vast majority of the stuff that's sold on there is nothing but garbage.
We know you too are a big time consoomer.
@@seminolewind158 consumer
When I hear “deadstock,” I don’t think of scraps so much as excess yardage. I sew almost exclusively with deadstock purchased from shops that specialize in it. You can much better materials at a reasonable price by shopping deadstock.
They used "deadstock" wrong.
There are a few places in Atlanta that are deadstock and I got an AMAZING herringbone wool for $9 a yard. It is SO SOFT and yes I did a burn test before buying. Fabric Joint, Fine Fabrics (2 locations the Duluth one is better). We also have Scraplanta but I keep forgetting they care closed on the day I go to my allergy appointments lol
Are there online shops you recommend?
(In the video, they talk about how the word has no official definition.)
I like what they are doing. I’m doing my best to stop over buying
I buy everything at thrift shops except underwear. I save tons of money, it's preshrunk, and I'm not supporting this industry and adding to the huge amounts of waste.
Cannot afford to buy this stuff anymore. This is a good idea, it should be widespread.
It is so hard to not over buy. I am trying so hard to live a minimalist life style.
Donate unworn garments to homeless shelters in lieu of landfills.
Maybe, but would they be useful? Would size 2 sample sizes of evening gowns be useful to most people?
@@TessJordan-lp5sc I think they can. They can make blankets using patch work and clothes and donate it for free to the homeless.
@@MONEYBAGARTS Maybe, but a lot of the material isn't well suited to making quilts. I know you're trying to be optimistic, though.
I was employed by a large retail corp for years. Before that within the graphic design business. Paper, glass, cardboard, plastic, fabrics, aluminum. Today, small amounts of these single use items avoid the landfill. In east Asia there's more to be accomplished. WATER usage is strained to its limits. Everyday consumables used for less than an hour are thrown out. The garbage collected in large cities daily is unreal.
Good comment, thanks, I want to add to it. Most people don’t realize that freshwater is the limiting resource for human development, there isn’t all that much of it where it’s needed. I’m a hydro-geologist, a ground-water scientist). It isn’t petroleum, it’s water. Yes, there is plenty of seawater, but desalination is an incredibly expensive and energy-consuming process, and of course, seawater is not easily accessible to the interiors of continents where so much water is used for dry-land farming, like in most of the US (all west of the Mississippi, certainly, including the high-producing California Great Valley and southern semi-deserts). Since the invention and widespread use of the electrical submersible well pump about a century ago, we have been rapidly dewatering the world’s most prolific aquifers. This is ancient water accumulated at the end of the last Ice Age (the Pleistocene) that just isn’t recharged at the rates to match our extraction, so the aquifers are going dry. We just can’t be wasting this much water on constantly manufacturing frivolous fashion clothes, some textiles, like cotton, use enormous amounts. We need freshwater to grow food first of all. No water, no food, then no life, human or otherwise. Conserve water, wherever you live, it’s very precious🙂
@@KimberlyPerrotis I lived in Colorado for 24 yrs. Water is a big topic in the west. The statistics for water use should be more widely known. Food is definitely a 1st priority. The processing of everything takes lots of fresh water. All day our needs infinitely depend on it.
We need to ditch influencer culture and overconsumption 😢
One of the good things to come should TikTok finally be outlawed in the US.
Great story and coverage! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 keep it up; holding the industry accountable- we all share the same air & planet
They closed the FabScrap Warehouse in Philadelphia. I am a quilter and brought my nonprofit group to volunteer and purchase fabric. The store didn't make enough money so they discontinued volunteer and wholesale store. I am ashamed that Philadelphia as a city didn't support the company with a free warehouse space.
I thought the problem was there is an industry based on the idea that it convinces women there is a need to replace their clothing because it is out of fashion and not worn out, so the number of garments per person goes way up with the accompanying consumption of resources and increased waste stream.
This has nothing todo with the Sex, man are just as wasteful. Afterall Sportswear is also clothing and it also doesn't rot, is produced horrendusly and is bought more than necessary.
@@katinkaraab1964 Some men are guilty of it, but it is largely targeted for women. At black tie events, men wear the standard tuxedo and women wear the latest outfits. Part of this is to allow women to be featured, but there is a psychology to this.
This to me is proof prices need to come down. Theyd sell everything if it was on sale, but theyd rather keep prices up and throw away the “deadstock”- this is market manipulation at its finest. Why is there no regulation on waste like this? If these brands were forced to pay a hefty fine for their waste, theyd have to make sales. Prices never go down and its bc business can avoid adverse market conditions. Not a free market like they pretend
I also want to add that there was less waste when clothing was made by tailors and seamsters rather than factories… a lot of production waste and pollution is caused by factories, pollution that never existed when artisans dominated production
Reminds me of Curse of the Starving Class when farmers destroyed excess food rather than give it away during the Depression.
@@madge2114 so much for the “free market” forces that determine everything. Invisible hands not so invisible, more like caught red handed
Exactly! Same thing happens with rentals in my city. There’s landlords that would rather literally let a house rot than put down their price, even an entire shopping centre that’s only 20% used at most for the same reason. It’s so disgusting…
A lease hike also made a beloved pizza place in my hometown to close their doors a week ago (as I'm writing this). They refused to hike up their prices due to inflation, did a LOT during the COVID lockdowns, and fed the nearby Stop and Shop when they went on strike back in 2019.
Now the place is going to rot empty w/overgrown grass.
Unfortunately, there are even fewer people who know how to sew each year. Sewers would like to be able to purchase fabric at an affordable price.
That is before considering the wastefulness/pollution involved with the fabric.
I think one of the issues is that the machines themselves are low quality. I'm not a sewer, but I wanted to be. I bought a low-end machine just to learn on, and it lasted all of two hours before it broke and became unusable. Fixing it will cost more than just buying a new one, and even a low-end machine isn't cheap. The quality of every product out there has plummetted to the point where most things cannot be repaired cheaply and must be replaced. I personally don't want to spend hundreds on a machine that will hold up for a hobby that I'm not absolutely in love with. And that's just the cost of the machine. It doesn't include fabric and other supplies needed to do this. If we want people to learn to sew, we have to provide them with the resources to be able to do it at a reasonable cost.
I've always wondered about this. Especially with cars.
Crazy quilt, crazy quilt, crazy quilt!!!
More crap that depletes resources and ends up in landfill. Wake up you fashionistas, rich, and influencers you're killing the planet. Clothes must last more than one season. Think of you're children and grandchildren
JUST STOP BUYING STUFF YOU DON'T NEED
Did you not see the video? It’s inventory that can’t be sold? Hence the problem
Fab scrap is a great place! I love it ❤❤❤
This is absolute gross gluttony! All for what? It’s so stupid. Buy secondhand and get on with your life.
Perhaps the designers better start designing cloths that regular people want to wear and afford, then designing ridiculous looking clothing with ridiculous prices that regular people don't want and cannot afford, and the only thing I can think of is that fashion is involve in money laundering.
High fashion is art and should be treated as such. Real people wear pjs most of the time, lol.
@@madge2114 high fashion is entirely unnecessary, unsustainable and is not usually art with the RARE exceptions. (1:1,000,000) Most people do not wear PJs, but practical and comfortable utilitarian clothing.
@@BBradshawProductions if you want a hot fashion market, the general public would be better off with supporting designer adaptive clothing for people with disabilities and impairments.
Haute Couture is not the Problem?! Those garments are Handmaid by people who earn a fair wage and do not end up on landfills. It is stuff like Shein or H&M that produces jeans for under 100 bucks that the people value so little that they throw it away. People "Shop" as a Hobby. The Problem are Not the Designers who make Art, is the Fastfashion and the people who think they need to own 10 pair of Jeans and buy new ones every 2 years!!! A good produced pair will cost around 200 bucks but it will last for up to 10 years. And you do not need more than 2-6 pairs (depending on your Job). Oh and all those people who need spandex and elastan everywhere because everything need to feel like sweatpants.
@@katinkaraab1964 it is really a problem to the majority of ordinary people.
I wish they'd make sizing systems universal already, would reduce returns and waste
Next time I am in NYC, gotta get to their retail store. I sew and am generally creative 😊
Fast fashion made in China is the biggest problem.
There are cheap fast fashion products being made all over the world, including European countries.
I was disappointed that anytime one of the people they were profiling started talking, they shifted to the script :/
Otherwise, really glad to see this topic being presented to a larger audience. We can't keep consuming the way we have been.
I didn't understand that fashion week was twice a year it just seemed like it was always happening
Thanks to fast fashion and social media.
There are various fashion weeks across the world that promote different fashion houses.
Have an celebrity endorse a piece that's not selling and it will be gone in a heart beat and then sold for 10x the price on Ebay.
HOW ABOUT LETTING SCHOOLS HAVE ACCESS SO THEY CAN USE IT FOR THEIR ARTS AND CRAFTS PROGRAMMES?
I wish Fabscrap had a shop in Portland OR.
I wish their shipping wasn't so gosh-darn expensive, and I live in Eastern Connecticut!
There was a video I watched on how pre-internet, fashion trends were created. It seemed to be alot more eco-friendly than today.
What difference is this supposed to make, as few people dress anymore? Instead, I see more and more of them in those hideous sweats and hoodies (let's call it the new slovenliness). I have spent a good portion of my life in retail witnessing trends come and go and this "athleisure" look by far, is the worst.
Really interesting that the "industry" wants me to "feel bad" because I "cant afford" their "products".
I love Fabscrap ❤ I got so much fabric and trimmings from them for my upcycling projects and I just made another appointment to volunteer ❤ Slow fashion is the way to go guys!
Problem is that business in general are not accountable for their waste
Businesses create so much more waste than the consumer 🧐
Forgetting about the schools filled with kids whose parents can’t afford when GIVING would be a WIN FOR ALL.
I've always liked Elaine Quijano. I wish you had identified her by name in the description below the video.
Cut up that fabric into strips, then braid and make floor mats! My grandma used all her scraps to make mats and they were sturdy, attractive, and lasted for years.
Fabric scraps would also be great for baby clothes! Babies are smaller so you can be more creative with small pieces of fabric.
Even if I was rich there are only so many clothes I can wear everyday. It’s just too much and people are focusing on other things. The new generation just can’t afford and aren’t interested in frivolity
Great resources for upcycle fashion. Or Blankets for people and animals...or animal beds. The list goes on and on....Finally a company thinking of the environmental impact of fashion.
What was the ad that showed at the end of this video... Temu! Ridiculous YT.
I can't afford to learn how to sew because the cost of fabric and my budget won't allow it, this is upsetting to my creative spirit to see this. I need to know how to get a deal on upholstery, I have this old couch I want to improve.
There are a lot of free resources and patterns onine. Sewing machine, borrow one from a friend or second hand. And just try and start. No skill becomes good without spending time on it. I started as a 20 year no skill student and I now sew coats with a lining, zippers, buttonholes. I just made a made to measure jeans. My own pattern. I have now 25 years of experience and yes It sometimes stillgoes wrong
Dead stocks mainly a bad thing for businesses but for consumers it’s a great thing because we are able to get many older items and raw materials for relatively a good price without the corporate greed. Course the environmental concern is there, but having the people reuse the items means there’s a higher chance that they will be worn for longer.
Thank goodness for people like them 🙏🏼
Awesome, amazing!❤
I think it's really great that Wes Gordon/Carolina Herrera send unused fabric to Fab Scrap. It's a step in the right direction but it would be even cooler if designers/brands like them incorporated deadstock fabrics into their collections. What Fab Scrap and Queen of Raw are doing is amazing!
they need to just stop making extra seasons. cap them at two runs a year. and I am a Master stitcher.
Thanks for shining a light on this .I think most people don’t care or are unaware .The word needs to get out!
Fk the fashion industry.
she is amazing!
Field trips to landfills & dumping grounds, garbage collection should be mandatory in elementary school. We dont feel connection or responsibility to this because we are too far from seeing it with our own eyes.
I like that idea. Also field trips to beaches, rivers, lakes, etc. to see the plastic pollution.
People over purchasing are the real problem. If everyone is able to refrain from buying too much clothes, fast fashion doesn’t have much incentive to making more and wasting more.
Didn't clothing scraps like that go into quilts ?
Maybe colorful robes ?
during the depression, nothing went to waste.
I think fabric scraps can be turned into custom shapes if we use interfacing and adhesive and then sew it into a lace shape, using a similar technique as denim repairing. Like maybe a quilt or mosaic.
Sewed? Really, this destruction of the language is out of hand. Sewn. How did you get out of middle school without such simple knowledge?
I'm not going to re-watch but 'sewed' in dialogue seems fine.
I like Elaine Quijano, the reporter, but I did notice that too. And I just watched a video where a CNN anchor began a sentence with "Him and his running mate..." My mouth fell open.
That's a great thing they are doing but I would much rather that we decrease fast fashion and create garments with fabrics that last.
Why would they burn it. So much worse for the environment. Especially polyester. Omg!
What else can they do with it?
Just don’t buy fast-fashion, it will help a lot. We need to wear and use what we have already. Most of us Westerners have plenty to wear, we don’t need new styles constantly. I’m trying ignoring trend and I don’t buy fast-fashion, I have plenty of beautiful clothes already. (I realize that many people can’t afford much else other than fast-fashion, but there’s no need to buy so much, or in such poor fabrics). On the other hand, the apparel industry needs to do its part, it’s not all the consumers’ fault. Most of the “eco-friendly” stuff at apparel brands is just green-washing, no one wants that recycled polyester crap. I buy recycled natural-fiber clothes if I ever see them, but they are few and far between. Organic cotton is good because it uses far less water to produce than regular cotton, and, theoretically, no pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
Excellent thank you
wow great initiative
Because buying expensive clothes is stupid. Make your body look great instead!
They wouldn't have deadstock if they stopped sewing rubbish
30% completed garment to landfill is ridiculous
There needs to be a way for the poor to benefit from this. Homeless as well. Time to step up America. These ladies are wonderful and have a good idea.
I wish we had a Fab Scrap in my city. We have to go to Fabricland. Design students need scrap fabric.
If they would just stop churning out garbage quality 100% polyester clothes that last like 2 months, this problem would be nowhere near as bad.
I thought this is about where unsold clothes ends up with
Love this
Deadstock is more in the forefront since NYC changed some laws.
What a fine idea!
I'm happy to take any deadstock they have off their hands. I recycle fabric and sewing notions etc. So if they want to give it to me for free, I'll happily take it and turn it into something beautiful and useful.
It's just like getting rid of plastic bags ,it's takes a lot of resources to make reusable tote bags or recycle containers you use a lot of water !
Doesn’t existing NY ,Zara HM overproduce every week ,encouraging customers to buy and waste . Polyester does not reduce it cannot be burned ,it’s toxic
About time.
Designers don’t produce their ready to wear at the design houses. They produce one or two of the style, one goes to runway, and the the other as a sample. Ready to wear is produced in China just like the rest of it.
I wish they would use the old, charming word for scraps - cabbage.
Id buy some of the dead stock from garment or material 😅 with budget consideration
Corporate fashion industry decides what we wear!
And to think a Temu ad ran after this
It would be good if those % are lowered of how much fabric is made, less # of sizes, fewer garments. Fabscrap is on the right track👍.
2:50 if that blue roll is fur I have been searching years for fabric like that! There it is the fabric of my dreams as "dead stock" 😿
It sure looks like a blue denim (indigo?) colored faux fur!
as iiiinnn.... This is such a big problem tho. As wastes is OUR GREATEST PROBLEM OF ALL TIME. 🙄💔
But a BIG question is how much of the deadstock are finding a new purpose/reused? Is it a 1:1. 1:10. 1:100...Fashion just consumes way too much and a big chunk of ot goes to waste. Like it was reported that these high end luxury brands cut up and burn all unsold bags/merch rather than put them on off season sales, that is wasteful and immoral.
Unnecessary waste is, in my opinion, a sin. We throw things away because we either don't see the value in it, or we don't care. Either way, there is little effort to turn that waste into industry, profit and charity. There should be "banks" (like food banks) for all reusable waste goods regardless of what it is. Some other countries use every scrap of anything they can scrounge to use in one way or another.
When we start holding ALL accountable for the way we treat our only home, the world will start to become a better place.
So the question in your header of the video was not meant to be answered? But to JUST ADVERTISE a company? Got it.
maybe fashion designers need to stop making idiotic looking clothes and start selling normal looking ones
One music record label just released 50 artist. Are the fashion houses ready to do the same????
I need a different outfit for every picture on my Instagram Feed.
Sad because we have so much but complain when our brother becomes homeless. Wake up, you're next.
Goes to the dump
Written off on their taxes
Humans. Aren’t we great. Positively affecting the earth since the big boom.
Buy vintage, second hand
I ordered a dead-stock gold chain belt with a coin pendant from Amazon, it was obviously from the 60s or 70s. I was expecting the coin portrait to be of Julius Caesar, Athena, etc., but had a good laugh when I saw the head was Lenin’s. It’s a cheap thing, but I kept it because it’s funny, at least to this die-hard American democrat.
It's not enough......it's not enough to send a few scaps of fabric to scrap dealers , the whole fashion industry needs a re set,
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love!!?
Every 2 weeks, there is a new "fashion" look. and it's all poorly made, poor quality fabrics, shapeless, tastless. Fast and cheap fashion is total junk.
This is NOT the solution. This is just another parasite profiting from fashion.
The only solution is to stop buying fashion. Buy used, make your own, or mend and make do. Do not give your money to designers, or to fast fashion retailers!