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The Amazon: Can Fashion Save the Rainforest? A talk with Bia Saldanha
Bia Saldanha - fashion designer and eco warrior extraordinaire – sat down with The Observer’s Lucy Siegle and novelist Ed Siegle at The Hub in Kings Cross last Thursday, in an imperative discussion on the rainforest, our consumer choices and saving our planet from a slow death by fast fashion.
Written by Georgia Takacs
Illustration by Charlotte Hoyle
"We are consumers, addicted. We need to ask ourselves - this t-shirt, where did it come from? A devastated place with devastated people?" – Bia Saldanha, 28 July 2011
Through Bia's hesitant English - impressively peppered with the vocabulary of her respective fields - there was a message, a mantra, that seemed to resonate from her core with every sentence she spoke. The message? That as people, as a united force of humanity, we must end the selfishness, stop the excuses and start acting on the fact that our Earth cannot bear the brunt of our reckless lifestyle choices much longer. I was sitting at the far back of the still, woody space of The Hub, King’s Cross, looking on at Bia, eco journalist Lucy Siegle and novelist Ed Siegle’s discussion unraveling.
If there’s one thing I learnt on that warm Thursday evening, it’s that when a lady like Bia Saldanha gives out such a message from across the room, you sit up straight, strain your ears… read more
