In the thick of the spring legislative season, sustainable fashion advocates are making their case in Albany for New York State’s “Fashion Act.”
The bill was introduced in October by New York State policymakers Sen. Alessandra Biaggi and Assembly Member Dr. Anna Kelles.
“The Act on Fashion Coalition is focused on ongoing discussions with NYS lawmakers — ensuring they are aware of the scope, scale and urgency of the negative impacts of the global fashion industry and the need for groundbreaking legislation,” commented Michelle Gabriel, an educator at Glasgow Caledonian University in New York, who is an organizing member with the Act on Fashion Coalition. “We need legislators to make reforming the fashion industry a priority.
The coalition spans a variety of stakeholders including lawmakers, labor rights groups, community organizations, environmentalists, academia and industry groups. Coalition members like New Standard Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, EarthDay.
Over the next few weeks educational talks by organizers are planned around a number of fashion adjacent campuses including Fordham’s Fashion Law Institute, the Fashion Institute of Technology and Columbia’s Earth Institute.
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