Happy New Year! Well, almost New Year at least. I hope your 2019 is going out with a bang and you are as excited as I am for 2020. Let’s make it our most ethically stylish yet, just like Cory Booker is planning to do.
On yesterday’s episode of Pod Save America, the hosts interviewed the 2020 presidential candidates about their New Year’s Resolutions. I loved it. I usually am not at all interested in New Year’s Resolutions, but these were good (Elizabeth Warren walks about 7 miles a day! You go girl)… but this is a digression.
The interview is notable.
Cory Booker’s resolution is to be more mindful of his clothing purchases and avoid fast fashion.
Yes! I just love it when ethical fashion goes mainstream. Talk about awesome news in ethical fashion!
For a bit of a backstory: Last year, Cory Booker made a decision to be more conscious with his consumer choices around food. He started eliminated food made by multinational corporations and started eating more sustainably.
This year, he is adding to this. In an effort to be more like Gandhi, to be the change he wishes to see in the world (referenced in the interview), he wants to vote with his dollars and empower people along the way.
In his words:
“This year, I am going to focus down more, one of my resolutions is to focus on fashion. Fast fashion is doing such damage to our environment. It’s oppressing and exploiting workers and more, putting chemicals into our environment and things that just do not attune with a lot of my values. I am just going to be a lot more conscious of my consumer choices around clothing and how those choices either empower the values that I want to see in this world or do things to continue systems that are unsustainable and actually hurt people.”
There you have it. Ethical fashion goes mainstream with 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker. How awesome is that?
You can find the interview here.
What are your ethical style New Year’s resolutions? For more on mine, take a look here.