London: Rebellion activists extinction blocked the traffic outside London Fashion Week on Saturday to protest against the “exploitation” of the fashion industry of the environment.
Dozens of protesters blocked the road near the main building with catwalk shows, which started on Friday and continued until Tuesday.
“We started blocking the road, four people wore barbed wire dresses and confirmed to the ground,” spokeswoman Sara Arnold, 33, told AFP.
“The system is based on aging, exploitation and overproduction. This influences the planet, the people, the animals. It needs systemic change.”
It is not the first time that “XR” activists focused on the fashion week, who covered themselves in fake blood and bound at the entrance during the September event.
The movement sent a letter to the industrial lobby group British Fashion Council on Monday with the request to cancel the London fashion week in September.
Aware of the accusations, the industry is this week that presents its efforts in an exhibition dedicated to “positive fashion”.
Many designers who are concerned about the impact of fashion on the environment choose to use renewable or recycled materials and to support local craftsmanship.
But environmental activists believe that this is not sufficient and that urgent action is needed.
The protest took place on the second day of Fashion Week, in which the first London show by Petar Petrov was seen, who presented the autumn/winter 2020/21 collection of his wives.
The designer, whose brand has just celebrated his tenth birthday, has unveiled the elegant and sober collection in the vicinity of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba), the head office near Regent’s Park.
The collection was characterized by extra long -wide sleeves and wide pants suits that are held in place by thin belts.
Versatility was the key, worn with jackets as dresses and scarf neck and draped jackets that can be bound in different ways.
“I grew up without elegance, I grew up in a socialist city and everyone had the same thing,” said the designer, who grew up in Bulgaria and the Ukraine with his tailor’s mother.
He inherited her love of fabrics, an inheritance that is central to the ethos of the company.
Other shows on Saturday are Great -Britain, Molly Goddard, known for its extensive and colorful tulle dresses, and Richard Quinn, who was honored two years ago by the Queen with the “Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design”.
