Priya Patel is a former Londoner with a passion for fashion that promotes sustainable development – which she blogs about at Fashion for Development. Although she has only lived in Washington DC for a scant six months, Priya has already helped create a Fashion for Development Committee through her employer at the World Bank, aiming to raise awareness and funds for projects and initiatives which pursue creative, effective and sustainable means to ameliorate global poverty. Priya has also helped to organize a Fashion for Development Show and Conference that will debut alongside DC Fashion Week on 2.22.07. This event will showcase individuals such as Ali Hewson’s (Bono’s wife), whose fashion label EDIN focuses on helping to eradicate poverty in Africa. For more information on these or upcoming events, email her at priyaindc-at-gmail.com.
In this interview, Priya talks about the fashion consumers’ growing need to know the who, what, where and how, about the products we buy, why the US has been slower to pick up on the trend of ethical fashion, and her fear that if ethical fashion becomes the fashion industry’s latest super-fad, it will inevitably fade away, despite its potential to improve people’s lives.
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