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I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.

I know quite a few eco designers who build dresses out of old couture gowns. They disassemble, 'upcycle,' and reuse them in extraordinary ways. To me, that's a sustainable way of doing things.

Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.