It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Chellie Pingree

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

5 September 2024

3 minutes

The Slow Fashion Caucus has already garnered widespread support, including from the Garment Worker Center, Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, Remake, Patagonia, thredUP, Fibershed, American Circular Textiles, fashion designer and slow fashion influencer Kelly Dempsey, and more.

During New York Fashion Week, Slow Fashion Caucus Leads Push to Revitalize US Sustainable Fibers Industry

WASHINGTON, U.S.: As New York Fashion Week gets underway, Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus founder and chair Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is calling attention to the critical need to promote sustainable textile production in the United States. In a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, Pingree and her colleagues...

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

17 August 2024

5 minutes

“Americans are the largest consumers of fashion and textiles in the world, and these various sectors employ millions of people domestically. There are growing business and job opportunities in all skill levels in areas of fashion like sustainable textiles and textile manufacturing, reuse and recycling technology, logistics, and science,” the lawmakers wrote.

Slow Fashion Caucus to President Biden: US Must Not Overlook the Fashion Industry’s Potential to Address the Climate Crisis

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.: Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus Founder and Chair Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is leading members of the Caucus in urging President Joe Biden to include representatives from the textile and fashion industries in his new White House Task Force on Climate and Trade. In a letter to the president, Pingree and her fellow Slow...

Consumer Trends / Slow Fashion Caucus

22 July 2024

6 minutes

The rise of so-called “fast fashion” has become an urgent environmental problem. Today, nearly two-thirds of all the fibres we wear and use are made from fossil fuel products.

There Should Be a Coordinated Effort in Congress to Rein in the Fast Fashion Industry

More than 11 million tonnes of textile waste end up in US landfills yearly. The problem is getting worse, but the apparel industry has the power to be part of the solution. It is with this thought and the urgent need to rein in the fast fashion pollution that Congresswoman Chellie Pingree launched the Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus to create climate-smart policies to reduce, repair, rewear, and recycle textiles. She outlines her plans in this exclusive to texfash.